Let's Get Quizzical (Bite me, Olivia Newton John...)
So far, my summer has been driven by serious mental turmoil. My mind has been beaten to hell by confusion, huge decisions about my future, and phone-calls from batty old ladies. So, I've decided to use my spare time at work to untangle all my jumbled feelings and search through my tumultuous soul. And when I say, "search my soul," I mean "take an unhealthy number of online personality quizzes."
At first, I stumbled into the quiz section of the-n.com because I wanted to find out just how "Moesha" I am, (The answer, by the way, is very. I am very Moesha. In fact, according to the quiz I took, I am "so Mo'.") but I found myself wondering the answers to some other questions posed by the miriad of quizzes on the page. Am I punk? Really? And if I were to date an animal, with wich one would I be the most compatable? Soon, I had been introduced to a whole new world of cybernetic psychotherapy.
I love the rush. I love pushing all of those little buttons, clicking "get results" at the bottom of the page and holding my breath while I hope that my cosmic Smallville twin is more Chloe Sullivan than Lana Lang. Sometimes My heart gets broken. Like the time I learned that, if my life were a TV show, Jessica Simpson would have written its theme song. Or the time I found out that if I were a character from High School Musical I would be Sharpay...but these are all things about myself I'm going to have to face sooner or later on my journey toward self actualization. I'm working on learning to love me for me. Even with all my quirks and flaws. Here are just a just a few of the ways my soul has been revealed to me:
I am less Ashley, and more Mary Kate.
Justin timberlake is my soulmate.
I'm sort of a downer. (I'm not surprised there wasn't a snazzy little badge/logo for this one for me to cut and paste here, but I really wish there was. It woud go something like:"You're Little Miss Sunshine's deformed step-sister! You hate everything! Whenever you speak, people don't know whether to laugh or cry! You're going to die alone!"
My inner self is a brunette and...has really nice eyelashes. Also: "If [I'm] attracted to someone, [I'd] rather share 30 seconds of intense eye contact than spend an hour chatting on IM." So true. You know how I love me some "intense eye contact."
If I had a superpower, it would be "superfly dressing."
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Sometimes, when I take these quizzes, I get a little bonus guidance when a pearl of wisdom is offered up with my results. Like this one from The Spark: "talk to yourself less. Other people more." Or this one from my old standby, the-n as it revealed that "me + myself = enemies": "Don't let your self-deprecating inner voice prevent you from trying new things -- the next time you catch yourself saying, 'I'm so stupid,' yell back, 'No, I'm not!'" Dulely noted, the-n.com. That sounds like it will do the trick. You probably just saved me a few years of therapy with that one.
No I'm Not! Sorry...where were we?
I know all of these things the internet has told me to virtually error proof because the questions that compose these quizzes are crafted too expertly to have been created by anyone who isn't an emotional genius. Note the finesse of this example from the above mentioned self-esteemed quiz:
When you look in the mirror, your inner voice is most likely to say:
a)“damn, I’m hot!”
b)“I look alright, I guess.”
c)“I look like total crap.”
(Luke, don't pretend you wouldn't pick "a"...)
And examine the delicacy of this carefully crafted moral dilemma from the "how compassionate are you" quiz:
"Your class is throwing a benefit for homeless children. On that same night, your absolute, total and complete favorite actor is doing a book-signing at a local mall. Which do you go to?"
Remember, there are no right or wrong answers on a personality quiz. No one will judge you if you prefer nice, clean "favorite actors" to all those smelly little "homeless children." (Christa.)
Just like I hope you won't judge me because of this new tool I've found for self examination. I too was once a doubter. Until that "what does your DVD collection say about you" quiz saw into my soul and knew somehow that I giggled all the way through "The Notebook." Then, I knew that these almighty quiz creators had abilities not to be taken lightly. Really, it's a completely healthy processs and I can stop whenever I want to. I just don't want to.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go find out just how well I know Hilary Duff.
At first, I stumbled into the quiz section of the-n.com because I wanted to find out just how "Moesha" I am, (The answer, by the way, is very. I am very Moesha. In fact, according to the quiz I took, I am "so Mo'.") but I found myself wondering the answers to some other questions posed by the miriad of quizzes on the page. Am I punk? Really? And if I were to date an animal, with wich one would I be the most compatable? Soon, I had been introduced to a whole new world of cybernetic psychotherapy.
I love the rush. I love pushing all of those little buttons, clicking "get results" at the bottom of the page and holding my breath while I hope that my cosmic Smallville twin is more Chloe Sullivan than Lana Lang. Sometimes My heart gets broken. Like the time I learned that, if my life were a TV show, Jessica Simpson would have written its theme song. Or the time I found out that if I were a character from High School Musical I would be Sharpay...but these are all things about myself I'm going to have to face sooner or later on my journey toward self actualization. I'm working on learning to love me for me. Even with all my quirks and flaws. Here are just a just a few of the ways my soul has been revealed to me:
I am less Ashley, and more Mary Kate.
Justin timberlake is my soulmate.
I'm sort of a downer. (I'm not surprised there wasn't a snazzy little badge/logo for this one for me to cut and paste here, but I really wish there was. It woud go something like:"You're Little Miss Sunshine's deformed step-sister! You hate everything! Whenever you speak, people don't know whether to laugh or cry! You're going to die alone!"
My inner self is a brunette and...has really nice eyelashes. Also: "If [I'm] attracted to someone, [I'd] rather share 30 seconds of intense eye contact than spend an hour chatting on IM." So true. You know how I love me some "intense eye contact."
If I had a superpower, it would be "superfly dressing."
***
Sometimes, when I take these quizzes, I get a little bonus guidance when a pearl of wisdom is offered up with my results. Like this one from The Spark: "talk to yourself less. Other people more." Or this one from my old standby, the-n as it revealed that "me + myself = enemies": "Don't let your self-deprecating inner voice prevent you from trying new things -- the next time you catch yourself saying, 'I'm so stupid,' yell back, 'No, I'm not!'" Dulely noted, the-n.com. That sounds like it will do the trick. You probably just saved me a few years of therapy with that one.
No I'm Not! Sorry...where were we?
I know all of these things the internet has told me to virtually error proof because the questions that compose these quizzes are crafted too expertly to have been created by anyone who isn't an emotional genius. Note the finesse of this example from the above mentioned self-esteemed quiz:
When you look in the mirror, your inner voice is most likely to say:
a)“damn, I’m hot!”
b)“I look alright, I guess.”
c)“I look like total crap.”
(Luke, don't pretend you wouldn't pick "a"...)
And examine the delicacy of this carefully crafted moral dilemma from the "how compassionate are you" quiz:
"Your class is throwing a benefit for homeless children. On that same night, your absolute, total and complete favorite actor is doing a book-signing at a local mall. Which do you go to?"
Remember, there are no right or wrong answers on a personality quiz. No one will judge you if you prefer nice, clean "favorite actors" to all those smelly little "homeless children." (Christa.)
Just like I hope you won't judge me because of this new tool I've found for self examination. I too was once a doubter. Until that "what does your DVD collection say about you" quiz saw into my soul and knew somehow that I giggled all the way through "The Notebook." Then, I knew that these almighty quiz creators had abilities not to be taken lightly. Really, it's a completely healthy processs and I can stop whenever I want to. I just don't want to.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go find out just how well I know Hilary Duff.
posted by Caitlin at 8:36 PM
3 Comments:
Hey, that question is totally unfair. Unless your favorite actor is Dakota Fanning.
How many of those quizzes did I take? Yep, definitely most of them... I think I'm also required to mention that yes, you are my favorite whore... er... comment whore... hehe... btw, my dvd collection says about me that I am into independent foreign movies... it also called me a bitch behind my back but we've talked about it and I've forgiven it...
Marcy here. Have you ever tried emode? Now there's an addictive personality test site! It's very interesting to see what they can peg about you with some short questions. Here's a confession...if I took a test and I didn't like the results, I would go back and change the ones I had waffled on to see if it would change the results. It usually didn't. Sometimes it did, and then I would be amazed at how close to edge of two personalities I lived! :-)
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