Your Personality Is

Idealist (NF) You are a passionate, caring, and unique person. You are good at expressing yourself and sharing your ideals. You are the most compassionate of all types and connect with others easily. Your heart tends to rule you. You can't make decisions without considering feelings. You seek out other empathetic people to befriend. Truth and authenticity matters in your friendships. In love, you give everything you have to relationships. You fall in love easily. At work, you crave personal expression and meaning in your career. With others, you communicate well. You can spend all night talking with someone. As far as your looks go, you've likely taken the time to develop your own personal style. On weekends, you like to be with others. Charity work is also a favorite pastime of yours.

Thanks Becky for the link!

We're on a Netflix subscription now, so we're taking a chance with a bunch of movies that've passed us by this year. Last night's selection was “Mr. Woodcock.” Wow, what a terrible movie. The titular character is a sociopath who enjoys abusing the less-than-physically fit children in his P.E. class. Never are we given a reason to sympathize with the guy — he's a horrible human being. Seann William Scott works the whole movie trying to break up his mother's romance with Mr. Woodcock. But then, at the end, he has a change of heart and, even though he's successfully broken them up, gets them back together. Which makes NO sense, because really, Mr. Woodcock is evil and I wouldn't want him dating my mom, I assure you. Monstro and Motormouth give “Mr. Woodcock” four thumbs down. Monstro believes it to be “evidence of the fall of Western civilization.”

…Monstro and I got “Beerfest” through Netflix the other day and it was a LOT funnier than either of us expected, and blew Superbad to pieces. If you're up for some riotous-yet-unintellectually stimulating comedy, I'd highly recommend it.

All last night I had dreams that I was being robbed, my mom was being robbed, my in-laws were being robbed. Now it's 2:20 in the afternoon and I'm a zombie. Even a half bar of chocolate hasn't perked me up. Time for a nap!

OK, so I'm a little late to this party, but one of my students told me about the Web site AnySoldier.com so tonight I spent an hour reading about the logistics and needs for sending a package to a soldier who doesn't get much mail. It's a very cool Web site and a great way to brighten a soldier's day. I cleared at least a foot of bookshelf space; I'm sending a duplicate copy of Snow Crash (LOVE that book) and Moby Dick (ditto), Bill Cosby's Childhood, plus Memoirs of a Geisha, Bee Season, a couple James Herriott novels, a book of after-dinner games, and a book of picture postcards of California.

Best of all, you only have to pay the postage to New York or San Francisco. Motormouth sez, “Check it out.”

Sheesh, people… everyone comments on the kinky-dating-in-SF article I linked to, but nobody comments on the fact that our kid is two years old and read his first words this week. Tough crowd!

The challenge: Get inspired by something at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yeah, because THAT's hard.

Cut to the chase: Christian wins. Jillian gets to go to Fashion week, too. Sweet P is out. Rami and Chris both get to design collections, but before Fashion Week they'll each show their three strongest looks for judging, and the winner will get to show at Fashion Week. And, Roberto Cavalli liked Chris's best. All the judges griped that Chris's dress looked too much like his avant garde look, but jeez, Rami's shown the same stinkin' draped dress every week since the show began. I'm really glad Chris gets a chance.

Danish newspapers have reprinted all 12 of the Mohammed cartoons that caused such a furor two years ago. See them for yourself. Goooo, freedom!!!