This test is really accurate for only 2 questions:

The Romantic
You chose BY - your Enneagram type is FOUR. “I am unique.” Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

• Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
• Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value
  myself.
• Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
• Though I don’t always want to be cheered up when I’m feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
• Don’t tell me I’m too sensitive or that I’m overreacting!

What I Like About Being a Four

• my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep
  level
• my ability to establish warm connections with people
• admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
• my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
• being unique and being seen as unique by others
• having aesthetic sensibilities
• being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What’s Hard About Being a Four

• experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
• feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don’t deserve to be loved
• feeling guilty when I disappoint people
• feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
• expecting too much from myself and life
• fearing being abandoned
• obsessing over resentments
• longing for what I don’t have

Fours as Children Often

• have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
• are very sensitive
• feel that they don’t fit in
• believe they are missing something that other people have
• attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
• become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
• feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents’ divorce)

Fours as Parents

• help their children become who they really are
• support their children’s creativity and originality
• are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
• are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
• are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

My test tracked 2 variables. How you compared to other people your age and gender:

	You scored higher than 25% on ABC
	You scored higher than 58% on XYZ

Google now has a free, no-HTML-knowledge-required Page Creator. You get http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com and sign in using your Gmail account. Due to high demand, however, a waiting list has been created for everyone (not just those without Google accounts). Anyone get in early and make a page?

I went to get a drink before Geology today so I wouldn’t pass out in class, and discovered a new addition to the vending machine: Vault by Coca-Cola, claiming to “drink like a soda, kick like an energy drink” (which, of course, was sold out). I got a bottle at Wal-Mart later, and found it tastes like a mix of Sprite and Mountain Dew, despite the whole Surge thing that I never got into. But yay for the “kick” factor, which I’ll definitely be partaking of more :

… Vault contains 47 mg of caffeine per 8 oz. serving, thus, 70.5 mg per 12 oz. can. This amount is substantially higher than Surge’s 52.5 mg per 12 oz. or Mountain Dew’s 55 mg per 12 oz.

Just installed the awesomely cool moods plugin Cricket Moods (v. 3.0) that doesn’t require deleting crappy provided icons, moving directories/files around, fooling with vars.php, or figuring out custom fields. There’s even admin panel pages. Yay!

While I haven’t sent any secrets to PostSecret or ljsecret, after seeing the All-American Rejects video for “Dirty Little Secret” (featuring many PostSecret submissions), it suddenly felt so much more real to me. It’s one thing to read secrets online, but seeing actual people holding up their deepest confessions with music to go along hit home in a reassuring and comforting way. With everything going on in the world today, we sometimes forget that despite the walls, images, and personalities people portray on the outside, they really share the same feelings inside more than we think. I know some people think the whole secret thing is stupid (and yeah sometimes I get tired of it), but hey — when something that started out as a little thing online becomes a book, traveling art exhibit (I missed the DC opening), and picked up by a popular band for their new single, not to mention countless LiveJournal communities — it’s not something that’ll fade away overnight.

Even though Google Talk and AIM aren’t officially integrated together (they will be eventually), there’s still a way to use Google Talk as a universal IM client via Jabber and some other stuff. Click here to learn how! If anyone’s having trouble following the instructions (I know I had a few “so, uh, what now?” moments), just leave a comment and I’ll try to help I haven’t had a real conversation with this hack yet since I just set it up, but if anything awesomely good or bad happens, I’ll let you know … only thing I don’t like is you can’t view people’s profiles.

Gmail also introduced a cool feature recently — you can now add things like phone numbers, alternate email addresses, real addresses, etc. to your Contacts. It was enough so that I moved everything from my Yahoo Address Book to Gmail — good riddance to crappy, ad-infested sites! Oh yeah, and if anyone happens to be wanting a Gmail invite, I have plenty.

Edit: Google Talk’s connection to AIM kept dying, so for the time being I’ll stick with the real AIM.

I love falling in love with Hanson all over again lol. They posted their first video FUTY (From Us to You) yesterday and included several clips of them being random during the recording of Underneath — my favorites being Taylor saying “go away” and Zac all like “we’re in Italy doing a chat on some website that’s not important ’cause it’s not Hanson.net!” and then breaking into song on the piano. I was like aw yay. Here’s a small preview:

And this is the funniest thing ever! I swear, I can’t decide between watching the video over and over or poking the penguin. Note: you need to have Flash installed and keep poking the penguin ’til the credits appear to experience its full glory

A year ago I blogged about how I loved this shirt from ThinkGeek. Two days ago I found a package from ThinkGeek sitting on my porch, and later that night Brian calls, tells me to open it, put on the shirt, and then knocks on my door as a Valentine’s Day surprise Crappy Assessment Day (and ceramics) were definitely made up for!