by gekko at 7:20 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Squeezed from UV:

You Are an Orange

You have a zest for life, especially for anything colorful, wild, or dramatic. You have a unique take on the world, and you're not afraid to be a little funky. You are a bit reserved toward people who don't know you well. You have a thick skin, which can protect you from anything that goes wrong in your life. Once someone does get to know you, they totally get and appreciate you. Your friends see you as a bright person with a refreshing take on life.

I thought chocolate was a fruit!

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by gekko at 1:54 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Paula didn't tag me, but I was bored so I figured I'd do it anyway. I cannot, however, take piccies of my fridge things because a) I'm at work and 2) I can't find my camera anyway. So I figured I'd draw the pictures.

Anyhoo. To make this a smidgen more interesting, I'm not going to actually tell you what these are. You'll have to guess from my fabulous art.

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by gekko at 11:43 AM as a "Meemies" poast

*And probably didn't care if you never learned, but here it is anyway.

This came through e-mail with instructions to send it back to the person who sent it, but also send copies to others with instructions to fill out and pass it on. I sent my responses back to the sender, but instead of bcc'ing it to unsuspecting peeps, I figured I'd post it on the blog. E-mail is just so nineties, you know?

Friends Survey

Read through the comments below about your friend and then follow the instructions at the bottom. Have fun!

1. What time is it?
11:45am

2. What's your full name?
gekko "excellent" lizard

3. What are you most afraid of?
running out of chocolate

4. What was the last movie that you saw in a theater?
Sweeney Todd (w/Johnny Depp)

5. Place of birth:
beneath a rock somewhere in Columbus, OH

6. Favorite food
Sushi (chocolate isn't food so much as it is a basic right)

7. What's your natural hair color?
muskrat

8. Ever been to Alaska?
No

9. Ever been toilet paper rolling?
Yes.

10. Love someone so much it made you cry?
Yes

11. Been in a car accident?
Yes

12. Croutons or bacon bits:
Yes.

13. Favorite day of the week:
Humpday

14. Favorite restaurant:
Shogun (Japanese/Sushi)

15. Favorite Flower:
Don't have one

16. favorite sports to watch
peanut rolling

17. Favorite drink:
Espresso

18. Favorite ice cream:
Caramel de Leche

19. Disney or Warner Brothers:
Sure!

20. Ever been on a ship?
Yes.

21. What color is your bedroom carpet?
Kind of a beige with motes of gray and brown

22. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
Never.

23. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail?
My friend Dick

24. What do you do when you are bored?
Bait hypersensitive idiots on Usenet

25. Bedtime:
9:01pm

26. Who will respond to this [post] the quickest?
Prolly Mark

27. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond?
Pres. Bush

28. Who is the person that you are most curious to see their responses?
Barack Obama

29. Favorite TV show:
NCIS

30. Last person you went to dinner with:
Daughter

31. Who do you think will be President?
Same one I vote for every election: Snoopy

32. What are your favorite colors?
Bl(e)ue

33. How many tattoos do you have?
Nada. But I have a birthmark in the shape of the state of Texas

34. How many pets do you have?
Fleas don't count, do they?

35. Which came first, the chicken or the egg
No one ever asks about the sperm. You notice?

36. What do you want to do before you die?
Get a good night's sleep.

37. Have you ever been to Hawaii
No

38. Have you been to countries outside the U.S.
Yes

39. How many people are you sending this [post] to?
billions.

40. Time this survey ended:
11:55am

Now, here's what you're supposed to do... please do not spoil the fun. Copy/paste, delete my answers and type in your answers, and post on your own blog, or in the comments.

The theory is that you will learn a lot of little known facts about those who know you. Aren't you glad you're a part of this?

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by gekko at 11:14 PM as a "Meemies" poast

One a them blog filler games, where you get tagged, do something bloggy, then have to tag others, yadda. I stole this from UV.

Rules: Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, blah blah. I won't be tagging peeps, even tho the real rules say I have to. Fuck the rules, I say.

1. If I lose my contact lenses I will be blind because I'm too vain to wear glasses.
2. I actually like broccoli
3. I hide chocolate bars and then surprise and delight myself finding them.
4. I do not own a pair of Uggs, nor do I want to.
5. I like my laser level more than I like Burberry shooz
6. I think Johnny Depp is hawt!
7. I have no tattoos, but have thought a lot about getting one.

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by gekko at 10:16 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Happy New Year to all my faithful reader!

The Recipe For gekko

3 parts Sass 2 parts Love 1 part Courage Splash of Daring Finish off with dark chocolate

Snarfed from Miz UV.

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by gekko at 8:12 PM as a "Meemies" poast

You Are an Espresso

At your best, you are: straight shooting, ambitious, and energetic At your worst, you are: anxious and high strung You drink coffee when: anytime you're not sleeping Your caffeine addiction level: high

Brewed over at Paula's.

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by gekko at 2:10 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I do not know who Megara is, but I rather like her.

Which Disney Heroine Are You?

Megara Take this quiz!

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by gekko at 1:36 PM as a "Meemies" poast

But I needed a fresh entry.

Swiped from Jefe.

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by gekko at 2:05 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Your House: RAVENCLAW!

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, If you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

Ravenclaws are known for their intelligence, ingenuity, and lifelong thirst for knowledge.

Take The Sorting Hat Test

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by gekko at 1:04 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Hip has a Cadaver Quiz. After answering twenty questions, they tote up your worth.

$4340.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth

Mingle² - Online Dating

Hrmph. Well, since that won't really dent my debts, I guess offing myself isn't a good option at the mo'. They didn't ask about how many gold teeth I have, though.

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by gekko at 11:04 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Anna of Cleves got the royal shaft. She came all the way to England to become the fourth wife of Henry VIII. Once married to Anna, he refused to consummate the marriage, and called her the "Flanders Mare". Talk about a burn, considering that by this time, Henry was the fattest man in England and had a rotting syphilis sore on his leg.

Anna was miffed, but she was too sensible to let it ruin her fun. She was given an annulment and a fat yearly allowance, and she threw extravagant parties and dined on delicacies for the rest of her life.

Linky-lurve thingie:
Snarfled from A Cool Change, who swiped it from Jenna.

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by gekko at 2:51 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I amMystique (64%)

Sometimes motherly, sometimes a beautiful companion, but most of the time a deceiving vixen.


Click here to take the Super Villain Personality Test

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by gekko at 3:05 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Jefty tagged me, curse his boiled hide!

1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you're in.

Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
miss kendra (los angeles, california, u.s.a)
Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA! USA! USA!)
Tits McGee (New England, USA)
Kat (Ontario, Canada)
Cheezy (London, England)
Paula (Orange County, California, U.S.)
Jeff (Colorado, USA)
gekko(Arizona, USA)

2. List out your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location.

Shogun: Best known for their sushi (against stiff competition), they also feature tepanyaki, tempura, and more traditional Japanese dishes. I love their eel bowls. It's always busy, and you can usually expect to wait unless you slip in right at 5pm. They'll keep you happy with freshly steamed edamame, though. Yum!

PF Chang's Asian Bistro Trendy, crowded, overhyped, but I love the food there. Food with an Asian flair, rich and flavorful. I love the lettuce wraps and pad thai -- no one seems to be able to do it as well as PF Changs or their daughter fast food place Pei Wei's. Honey Chicken, or Orange Peel Chicken are tops. But nothing beats theor Oolong Marinated Sea Bass.

Carlos O'Brien's, a Mexican restaurant in the original American tradition. Standard Mexican-American faire, plentiful portions, well-prepared. What I like best about 'em, though, is the chips and salsa. The salsa is fresh-made from scratch, and the chips are the lightest I've ever encountered. Gently oily, delicately salted, they serve to carry the yummy salsa to your mouth, not overpower you with corn meal.

Richardson's Cuisine of New MexicoOne of those tucked-away neighborhood haunts, Richardson's is crowded and dark. It's been popular in this city for over 15 years. It doesn't feature standard Mexican food per se, but the smokier, chipotle-driven flavors created in New Mexico. Southwestern, and innovative.

Einstein Bros It's a bagel shop. Not extraordinary as bagel-shaped food goes, but certainly credible for something not lovingly prepared by a mozel in Brooklyn. What I love about this particular place is that it's within walking distance and has outdoor seating. Every Saturday morning, weather permitting, I walk the dogs to Einstein Bros. Rope 'em to a table, get my Spinach Florentine and shmear, cuppa coffee, and a doggy bagel and dine al fresco, people watching. The pups love it because they get lots of attention and also get to bark at the designer rats on leashes some of the hoity-toitier peeps bring with 'em.

3. Tag 5 other people (preferably from other countries/states) and let them know they've been tagged.

Norma (Ohio, USA)
Jenna (Georgia, USA)
Wayne (Pennsylvania, USA) (although, he never does these things)
The Other Donna (Florida, USA)
Arleen (Florida, USA)

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by gekko at 5:13 PM as a "Meemies" poast

In a meemy kinda mood ...

Name a CD you own that no one else on your friends list does.
Guaranteed -- pick one:
Mike Condello Presents Wallace & Ladmo's Greatest Hits, or
Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach, More Favorite Disney Tunes in the Style of Great Classical Composers

Name a book you own that no one else on your friends list does.
Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, or possibly Vegan Planet

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no one else on your friends list does.
ChikFlik: Under the Tuscan Sun

Name a place that you have visited that no one else on your friends list has.
The ancient city of Dan in Northern Israel.
The Titan Missile Base in Green Valley, AZ
The Kartchner Caverns near Benson, AZ

Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no one else on your friends list has.
hand crank egg beaters?
an old Palm V and its charge cradle?
A 21" Black & Decker HedgeHog© electric hedge trimmer?
A Motorola KRZR cell phone?

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by gekko at 4:58 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I mean, duh.

I am 7% Idiot.

I am not annoying at all. In fact most people come to me for advice. Of course they annoy the hell out of me. But what can I do? I am smarter than most people.

Take the
Idiot Test
@ FualiDotCom

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by gekko at 1:36 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Paula gets George. I end up with Weird Al.

In 1959 (the year you were born)

Dwight Eisenhower is president of the US
Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba
Alaska is admitted as the 49th state
Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500 stock car race
Tibet's Dalai Lama escapes to India
Hawaii admitted as the 50th state
Soviet premiere Krushchev begins unprecedented visit to US
The Barbie doll debuts
John McEnroe, Kyle MacLachlan, Tom Arnold, Perry Farrell, Kevin Spacey, and Weird Al Yankovic are born
A plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper - becomes known as "The Day The Music Died"
Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series
Baltimore Colts win the NFL championship
Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein is published
The Twilight Zone debuts on TV

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by gekko at 10:07 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Stole this from the alleged Pottymouth Jeff:.

1. What's your favorite color ? Blue

2. Who's your favorite Beatle ? Herbie

3. What's your favorite cooking spice ? Gaaahrlic

4. What's your favorite book ? Mine. Soon's it's written

5. Favorite explorer ? Version 7.0, I think

6. Favorite post it note size ? The heart-shaped ones, about 2"

7. Favorite Barbara Streisand movie ? Isn't there one where her character died? That one.

8. Favorite adjective ? Fucking

9. Favorite car ? 2002 Miata <sniffle>

10. Favorite Rat Packer ? Oh, Sammy, babe. Sammy.

11. Favorite Brat Packer ? Erm?

12. Favorite Green Bay Packer ? Uh?

13. Favorite City ? San Francisco <-- what Kos sed

14. Favorite song ? "On My Own", from les Mis

15. Favorite adhesive ? Loctite©

16. Favorite ex of Liz Taylor's ? Richard Burton

17. Favorite Brady ? Bobby -- he was most impish

18. Favorite Christmas Carol ? O Holy Night

19. Favorite animated monkey ? Grape Ape (Beagley Beagley innit)

20. Favorite Writing Implement ? Montblanc Meisterstück 149

21. Favorite soap ? Aveeno Body Wash

22. Favorite vegetable ? asparagus

23. Favorite superhero ? Batgirl

24. Favorite Brian Dennehey movie ? Ratatouille (cuz the name sounds scrumptious)

25. Favorite prehistoric family ? Rubbles

26. Favorite TV Show ? Boston Legal

27. Favorite movie villain ? Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

28. Favorite candy ? Godiva Dark

29. Favorite movie ? The Fifth Element

30. Favorite berry ? Rasp

31. Favorite breakfast cereal ? I'm cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs©

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by gekko at 6:37 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Too troo, but the quiz was binary. Some a my answers would've been between the two choices given.

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by gekko at 7:22 AM as a "Meemies" poast

Just like Cheezy, I am

You are The Wheel of Fortune

Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of intoxication with success

The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Lucky? Crashing my sweet Miata is lucky? Hokay, maybe in a Loki lucky way. :-) Hey, maybe I'm destined for a Jag!

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by gekko at 7:58 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Following the crowd. Hope there's a book about sheep on this list.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) READ
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) READ
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) READ
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) AGAIN & AGAIN
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) AGAIN & AGAIN
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) AGAIN & AGAIN
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) AGAIN & AGAIN
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) READ (whole series)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) WANT TO
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) READ
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) WANT TO
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) READ
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Rowling) READING
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King) AGAIN & AGAIN
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling) WANT TO
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) READ
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) AGAIN & AGAIN
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) READ
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) READ
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) READ (loved it)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) AGAIN & AGAIN
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) READ
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) AGAIN & AGAIN
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) READ
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) READ
31. Dune (Frank Herbert) READ
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) READ
34. 1984 (Orwell) READ
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) READ
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) READ
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) READ
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) READ
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible AGAIN & AGAIN
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) READ
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) READ
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) READ
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) READ
54. Great Expectations (Dickens) READ
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) WANT TO
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) READ
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood) READ
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger) READ
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) TRIED
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) READ
63. War and Peace (Tolsoy) TRIED
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) READ
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares) READ
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) READ
69. Les Miserables (Hugo) READ
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) READ
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding) SAW MOVIE
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell) AGAIN & AGAIN
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) READ
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) READ
76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) READ
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) READ
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) READ
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams) AGAIN & AGAIN
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) READ
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding) READ
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) READ
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce) TRIED

Tha's it. Since, like, everyone on the planet has done this meme before I did, I won't bother listing the names.

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by gekko at 2:37 PM as a "Meemies" poast

Thanks Jenna. She got it from Mark.

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by gekko at 12:39 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I had serious trouble with Question 6. And several were like, "Umm, are those the ONLY choices?" But it's pretty much deadnuts on.

You Are a Liberal Republican

When you tell people that you're Republican, they rarely believe you. That's because you're socially liberal - likely pro-choice and pro-gay rights. You're also not so afraid of big goverment, as long as it benefits people and not politicians. You are the most likely of any Republican type to swing over to the Democrat side sometimes.

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by gekko at 10:21 AM as a "Meemies" poast

I'm not sayin' I'd lick Joe the Troll ten times, but I lurves a man who is low calorie. He claims Sour Grapes apparently had some'at to do with this intensely inane bit of trivia:

[UPDATED]
I like this one better, especially #4 (it's true, and I have the Blob to prove it!) #5 (don't piss me off!) and, well, maybe someone will be impressed by #6.

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by gekko at 8:14 PM as a "Meemies" poast

I'm altering the actual meme because one of the questions asked is one we've done before.

1. What was your first job?
  I'm not going to count babysitting (or lawnmowing or stuff like that). My first real job was when I was 19 years old, as a waitress for a little truck stop cafe in a teensy little hick kind of highway town near the town I lived. I was a waitress for an entire week. The regulars liked me; they sipped their thirty-cent coffees (free refills) and left dollars for me for a tip. No, I did not show them my tits. I quit because the boss tried to have sex with me, though.

2. Do you remember your first crush?
 Yep. I'll forgo mentioning his name. I'm sure he's reading this blog. Or maybe not. It was a boy in middle school and then through high school. Played football, ran track, and he and I vied for placement in the top 10% of the class in high school. We were in all the honors classes together. <sigh>. He was gorgeous. I beat him -- I ranked #5 and he was #6. I got to wear honor cords at grad and he did not. Neener.

3. What is the first thing you do in the morning?
Um. Open my eyes? Okay, not fair. Pet the dogs? Or were you looking for something like "pee"?

The next question is the one I changed.
4. What was the first really bad thing you ever did?

Shoplifting, in junior high. Stole a hot pink bikini from a department store.

5. Where is the first place you visited on the net today?
PJ's blog, of course! Where else?

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by gekko at 9:15 AM as a "Meemies" poast

I did not much like the answer choices in this quiz. Too limiting, and too stereotypical girly. But the result was pretty cool.

You Are Psyche!

Eternally in search of purpose and insight. You're curious and creative with a total sense of wonder. Totally empathetic, you pick up on other's moods easily. Just be sure to pamper yourself as well!

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by gekko at 9:09 AM as a "Meemies" poast