Meme

Shamelessly stolen from massagediva

A - Accent: midwestern
B - Breakfast Item: Omelettes
C - Chore you hate: Litter box. Nuff said.
D - Dad's Name: Michael
E - Essential everyday item: Reading material
F - Flavor ice cream: hazel nut
G - Gold or Silver?: silver
H - Hometown: Columbus, Indiana
I - Insomnia: Rarely
J - Job Title: Receptionist/artist/jewelry-maker
K - Kids: Noooooo
L - Living arrangements: At the moment, hotel room.
M - Mother's birthplace: Brown County
N - Number of significant others you've had: 5
O - Overnight hospital stays: 2
P - Phobia: stage fright
Q - Queer? You could say that /:-?
R - Religious Affiliation: Ecclectic Pagan
S - Siblings: 1/2
T - Time you wake up: 4:00pm
U - Unnatural hair colours you've had: None (always thought it'd be kinda neat to have a purple streak, though :-?)
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: cucumber
W - Worst habit: Getting distracted by carnal opportunities (when Aurey's around).
X - X-rays you've had: probably 10 or so if you count dental.
Y - Yummy: Yellow Curry with Chicken
Z - Zodiac sign: Pisces

*squee*

A Psalm of Life
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solenm main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

(no subject)

Extremely Empathic! You are 90% empathic!

You're as empathic as they come. You don't even have to try very hard to have a fair idea of what those around you are feeling, and you usually have an idea of WHY they might be feeling that way too. Chances are you're aleady formulating ways of trying to help them if they're feeling down. And if they're happy? Well you're bouncing off the walls with them of course! There are times when you wish you could switch off to others feelings and focus more on your own. You find that sometimes it can be hard to maintain control of your emotions if there are others around. Heck, they don't even have to be real people, you tap easily into the emotions of characters in movies and books too. You're a great person to have around when people want to be noticed but don't want to just blurt out how they're feeling.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on empathy

Link: The Empathy Test written by Audryn on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test