fangirljen

Happy voting day to my fellow Americans! If you're registered, VOTE! Exercise your right. Even if you haven't voted in years, go vote. Your voice makes a difference. If you don't, then we're all gonna make a decision for you and that just isn't right.

So that's me! The Groundbreaking Thinker! For a quiz that is only five questions with only two answers, it's amazing how accurate this thing is. It's been accurate for many people I've seen. Even tried it on a character just for fun and it nailed things about him too.

I've gone ahead and posted the personality description here. Everything I've italicized is what I identify with most:

Groundbreaking Thinkers are charming, enthusiastic persons. They really bubble over with energy and like to take centre stage. They love variety both professionally and privately. Groundbreaking Thinkers tackle changes consistently with their optimism and firm (not so much about the firm, but I have belief. That counts) belief in their own abilities; they are always on the look-out for improvement possibilities. Their excellent communication skills (yay! Go me!) are of great advantage to them here. They approache the world with curiosity and openness and master new situations with a great deal of talent for improvising and with resourcefulness. Their spare time is taken up with a large number of hobbies (too, too many hobbies, I think); most Groundbreaking Thinkers like to travel in order to gather as many different impressions as possible (So that's what I like to do? Get new impressions? Nice). This personality type is unbeatable at discovering new possibilities (Always on the look out for them).

In their work, Groundbreaking Thinkers highly rate challenges and diversified tasks. They cannot stand routine and too detailed work. They love to astound others with bold ideas for an original, new project and then leave it up to the others to implement them (SO TRUE!). Hierarchies, rules and regulations arouse their opposition (Not really. Only if I don't agree with the people in charge) and they love outsmarting the system (hehe. You know it). It is vital to them that they enjoy their work; if this is the case, they quickly become a pure workaholic. Their creativity best takes effect when they works independently; but they are very good at motivating others and infecting them with their optimistic nature (Tis why I am the Fangirl: I spread my love, optimism, and excitement to others for them to get to doing their own thing). Conceptual or advisory activities (Yes, Yes, and Yes! Academic Advisor, anyone?) appeal especially to Groundbreaking Thinkers. It can happen that some people feel somewhat duped by their flexible, spontaneous nature (Hm? Really? Has this been the case for anybody?)

Their sociability and enterprise ensure that Groundbreaking Thinkers always have a large circle of friends and acquaintances in which activity plays an important role (You know, I never thought this used to be the case, and in fact, I don't think it was, but I know a tremendous amount of people. And people from lots of different groups. Lots of friends, too, but only a couple who are really, really close.) As they are mostly in a good mood, they are popular and very welcome guests (I do love them!) Grumbling and peevishness are unknown to them (How things used to be, but not so much now). However, they do tend to be a little erratic and unstable when it comes to obligations and this makes them appear to be unreliable to some (Hah! A little erratic? Lately, it's been very erratic. But I'm trying, or working on that). Groundbreaking Thinkers are very critical and demanding when it comes to picking a partner because they look for the ideal relationship and have a very concrete picture of this ideal relationship (I never thought I did, but I know what DON'T want). Mutual aims in life are very important to them. They do not like compromising and would rather remain alone (yep, and I've been alone. I decided very young that I wouldn't sleep with someone just because, but it had to be for real and out of love.) For the partner, it is often a challenge to have a long-term relationship with an Groundbreaking Thinker. Groundbreaking Thinkers need a lot of space and diversity or otherwise they become bored and feel cramped. Types who are rather more traditionalistic often have problems with the willingness of Groundbreaking Thinkers to take risks and their often crazy, spontaneous actions (I wonder if Marcus was a GT, too. He was very willing, and came up with many spontaneous actions himself. It's difficult to find another guy like that!)
However, if one can summon up sufficient flexibility and tolerance for them, one will never be bored in their presence and will always have a loyal and faithful partner (Oh! This is nice to hear!).

You'd think the drunken!bunnies wouldn't come out around now, but what a surprise! They are!



If this was yesterday, it must have happened at the after-after party! But I gotta say props to Milo: he wasn't drinking at the bar. I heard he didn't, but to see it was super cool.

Brain is mushy, eyes are blarey. Not sure why I'm up and online anymore. LOL

My brain is too tired to come up with any real description of today's trip to Long Beach, in specifics to see the Star Trek Tour. I'm not a Trekkie, or a Trekker, by any means, but it was fun. Hung out with friends, three who were hyped about it, so that made it very awesome. Also, what I witnessed? Even more awesome. Katie met people from the Star Trek fan series Hidden Frontier and it was such a beautiful moment to witness. Goodness knows she's seen me meet enough people I like!

Besides the meetup with the Hidden Frontier guys (which was so random! This was their first time at the tour. What luck! And you know what I say to that? Not luck! It was meant to be. :D ), seeing the Zach Quinto look-a-like was one of my fav moments! He was running this booth where you can get filmed into three minutes of an ep of Classic Trek. He had thick eyebrows (though they weren't Sybrows), the hair, the smile, the ears. The only thing was he probably had about twenty pounds on Quinto and wasn't as tall, but aside from those two things, daamn. He might just be some distant relative or something! So crazy. And I wasn't the only one to think that he shared a strong resemblance to Quinto. We all agreed. Usually it's just Jen imagining these things, but nope, not this time! LOL I told him he should be Zach's stand-in and tell people that he is Zach. :D What a place for him to be working. *L*

Besides Katie, scififreak, hystericblue42, and sarumann were with us, too. Good people. This is only the second time I've met sarumann in person, but I feel like I know him better than that--likely because of LJ! I felt loved. These are good people. I love having friends offline who are as geek as me. It's a blessing.


Edit: Check out Sarumann's report for pictures and Katie's report for more info!

Seriously? Who does? I guess I should be used to being off today after last Tuesday, but it really struck me this time. And now 2008. Weird. Is it a sign that I'm really getting old when I say, "Oh, 1998 wasn't that long ago." I have vivid memories from it. You know, those fresh ones that still feel new or newish. Bah. Maybe I'm trying to hold on to my late teens-early twenties-twenties period. Or I just have a memory of the awesome. And oops. I've wandered. I also meant to say that today feels weird because it's 7:30 AM and I'm at home, lunging in bed. Should be getting familiar with Julia & Julia as I wonder where I'm going to put the new copies (I had taken this "God won't give me anything I can't deal with" method at work (though I should know otherwise after being avalanched by Manga and then sending it back--I think it was sent back. God, I hope it wasn't tossed or something. Would that happen?) but it seems that the company sends things indiscriminately. WTF! Shouldn't they know that thirty-five copies of Julie & Julia is just too much?! I only use this book as an example because it's getting turned into a movie for a 2009 release (suddenly you're not so far away ole year to end the decade and marking of last year with two 0's. Hmm. 2008 is like double affinity: two 0's and the 8. Nice touch. Speaking of other "doubles", that's one part of the actual name of the statue used for Kirby Plaza--The Double Ascension, by Herbert Bayer (now that, while makes me think of Stargate: SG-1, has interesting connotations in Heroes, as there are multiple 'ascensions' going on. Double-doubles (just not the cheeseburger, which shall be what I get when I spend my In-n-Out 5 dollar gift card! Thanks Lyly of Borders!) Peter and Sylar and Peter and Nathan--though literally in the Petrellis' case. Oh yes, prop to scenery scout person who found this gem. I can just imagine it: "I know this awesome status downtown. We have to shoot there!" And, ironically, that statue really looks like the Godsend helix while viewed from above. I went back there with brokenbacktango and make_me_shiny. They reenacted Peter's and Sylar's scene as I took a couple of snaps.)

Okay, just stating this for new folks here (Allo!): my brain wanders like nobody's busy and I do my best to follow. My voice posts are much more scattered. I make no apologies, but wish to inform. At least I hope it is a fun and/or interesting ride. OCD with ability to draw weird connections \o/ (little guy who will now represent for the win or Yatta!)

( Things I like to talk about and hopes for this journal for the year )

My main hope for this year is that it is a good one. I live, I love, I learn. I be easier on myself and not dwell on my deficiencies and errors. I give more. I take time out for myself everyday when I have nobody to worry about, not even myself. I think about what makes me angry, and look to correcting it. I think about what makes me depressed, and work on correcting that. My future is in my hands. Nobody else can change me but me. I am responsible for what happens to me. If I want to change, if I want to get better, I make it happen. If it doesn't happen as quickly, or as I want it to, I don't hold this against myself, either. Somethings things aren't meant to be even as much as we want them to. I just have to do my best with what I'm given. And my best is what I do at any given moment. How I perform now may not be directly comparable to how I performed ten, or even five years ago. I look at where I am now and go from there.


"Rewind" - A Nathan Petrelli Tribute