1. First off, I have multiple personalities. I took the personality type test featured on 50 toes three times and got three different answers. The test is only 53 questions and taking it once is of relatively poor accuracy. Supposedly, the more you take the test, the most frequent answer you get gives you a more accurate picture of your personality type. Back when I was in college, I tested multiple times as an INFJ using the Meyers-Briggs test. Tonight, I tested variously as:
INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population. |
They all seem accurrate to varrying degrees of accuracy. If that makes sense. I'll have to go back in a couple of days and take the test a few more times, see if my personality settles down a little.
2. I am a chronic procrastinator. Unfortunately, this is a bad behavior that has rubbed off on Janell. Once upon a time, she was a pretty squared away planning and doing kind of person. I'm doing everything in my power to teach the girls to avoid my bad habits, but as always, more is "caught than taught", I'm afraid.
3. I've never lived by myself as an adult. I went straight from high school to the Academy to marriage. From the few weekends I've had apart from Janell, alone at home, I know why God meant this to be. I'd be a terrible bachelor. I need Janell! That's not to say that I can't cook or clean. Actually I'm quite proficient at both. When I get to them.
4. I have a chronic addiction to web surfing. This is probably a bigger problem that I really give credit. It's not the content that I surf, it's the time lost looking up things like the definition of "quiescent" or the history of the Intellivision gaming system, or maps of Singapore, or the latest news from Luxembourg. OK, maybe I haven't spent too much time on that last one, but I do spend too much time here and here.
5. I sunburn every summer. Despite years of Grandma Beitzer warning of the dangers of the sun, I am terrible about forgetting to put on sunscreen.
6. I soloed in a 2-seat Cessna airplane before I had my driver's license. Aug 5, 1989, Camarillo Airport. It wasn't until the end of the summer that I earned my license to drive a car (on my second driving test).
7. I learned to scuba dive in 1993 in a Quarry in Pennsylvania. I earned my advanced diving certificate in Key West, FL, during Spring Break, 1995. I haven't scuba dived since. But I still own two 1960's vintage scuba tanks I borrowed from my dad (I think I still own them).
8. I climbed Mt. Whitney on Sept 11, 2001. Most surreal experience of my life.
9. I wore braces for seven years (Haloween of my freshman year of highschool until my third year at the Academy). Along the way, I had three sessions of oral surgery as well. My kids are dentally doomed.
10. I always have to wear a watch. Even when it makes me look like a geek in the pool or on the beach, even on vacation when I don't want to know what time it is, I have to know what time it is. Drives me nuts not to know. See #1. Plus, lets' face it. I'm a geek. See #4. And if you're still reading this, there's a pretty good chance you have a streak of geek in you, too.
Obviously, I blew off the "rules" from the Gough's post. Sorry. I don't know eight other people, and I couldn't stop at eight. I guess I'm more of a decimalist.
4 comments:
Well, I am supposed to be working on a fee survey for Moorpark, and here I am reading your Blog and clicking on all of your links. I guess it runs in the family. Sorry Scott.
Okay--some of these do run in the family. I share numbers 1 (I, too, test inconsistently), 2, 4, 5, 9 (wore braces from age 18 to 21, when I insisted they be removed because everyone thought I was 12). Your short, chubby, unathletic aunt will never match your physical endeavors, tho' she used to play badminton and softball and survived river rafting on the American River.
On #10, I'm a complete opposite. I'm never absolutely sure of the time because I don't wear a watch--allergy to nickel which is found in chrome and even to some extent in stainless steel. I use the clock in my car, the clock in my cell phone, or simply guess the time. Most of the time, I'm pretty accurate. It must be the years of practice without a watch.
That was great! I got a real kick out of reading that. It puts our ages a little in perspective when you learned to drive as I was graduating basic training.
I am also a procrastinator and love to surf for nothingness. I'm addicted to reading various friends BLOGS EVERY DAY.
I wonder as well if you still own "2 1960's vintage scuba tanks). You know, cruise is a long time and things get lost.
Take care,
Rich
I am laughing at #10 that is so me. I have created two kids that already are obsessed with time. Emma usually keeps us all on schedule.
I think most bloggers are addicted to the internet. I am not proud of this either.
I think Adam learned scuba at that same quarry in 1994. To my knowledge his scuba career started and ended in PA.:)
Thanks for the personality test responses, I look forward to seeing what you are in a week or so.
-C
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