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BookOfMIrrors took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Wants to make a favorable impression and be reward..." Click here to read the rest of the results.

Interesting, and somewhat troubling, article

And something that makes the above even more troubling...

Another thought-provoking post by gaeasson

An Update, Sorta

I'm depressed today, easily irritable, and generally don't know what I want, making it hard for anyone else to have an idea of how to appease me, either.

Well, of course, I *do* know what I want - I want financial stability, and to have ALL my bills, past and present, paid off in full, and a substantial amount of money in the bank. Not go-buy-a-mansion substantial, but if-we-all-lost-our-jobs-tomorrow-we-wouldn't-be-destitute-and-panicky-for-at-least-3-months substantial. Oh, and to be able to buy furniture and such for the apartment.

This post, however, was meant to be a bit of a poll (without the actual poll). I'm not in the mood to get into the visit with my parents last week. Suffice it to say that things went well. I might go into more detail later, I might not.

However, they did request that I ban 3 members of my family from reading the journal. Now, since none of these people have LJs, I'm thinking the only way to do this is to friends-lock the journal. I mean, yeah, there might be a way to block certain IP addresses, but that would imply that I knew what they were, and would also be contingent on those addresses being static, which is unlikely, and would also assume that no one would ever log on from a computer other than their own. So... again, I can't see a way to do this without just blocking the non-LJ world at large. Which would also block people that I'm glad read my LJ, like Frog, Leo, and Johnny... and Mark, I think... Which I don't want to do. Plus my feeling that the Universe points people in the direction of various things on the internet for a reason, and I hate to block that.

So, I'm interested in people's thoughts on this. I mean, no one's FORCING me to do anything. But I feel like I owe my parents a great deal, and this isn't much to ask on their part. So, tell me what you think about this, and if you have any geekly advice for how I could possibly have my cake and eat it, too, that would be cool.

Thanks.