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What I Do On My Day Off

Your Mom has had a long couple of weeks, fighting the dragon that would be the University, but it is officially time for a day off. To celebrate a break from logistics nightmares and the sea of yellow card requests, today Your Mom has been drifting along the blogoverse, playing mah jong, and otherwise creating vegetables where brain cells once lived. Yay!

Just for shits and giggles, here's another in the many useless quizzies found on some random blog: a little something entitled "Which religion is the right one for you?"...results of which will mostly come as no big surprise to anyone. The questions in the quiz demonstrate some of the inherent problems of designing these things without loading subtle and not-so-subtle bias into the questions. As an example, one question, to which you respond in a range from agree to disagree, says "men and women are equal in the eyes of God." How does an atheist correctly answer that? Hmmm? Anyway, here are my results. Why Satanism ranks above agnosticism is a mystery. Didn't know I had it in me.

You scored as atheism. You are... an atheist, though you probably already knew this. Also, you probably have several people praying daily for your soul.

Instead of simply being "nonreligious," atheists strongly believe in the lack of existence of a higher being, or God.

atheism		79%
Paganism		63%
Satanism		54%
agnosticism		54%
Islam		50%
Buddhism		42%
Judaism		25%
Christianity		21%
Hinduism		21%

Which religion is the right one for you? (new version)
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The Reluctant Academic

Why, oh why do I always dread the beginning of a new class? (No, this is not a rhetorical question; extra credit will be awarded for insightful answers.) How can performance anxiety still be such an annoying presence after six years? (Again, not rhetorical.) And how do you spell AARRRGGH*#@%$!!!! (Never mind, think I got it.)

The second-half-of-the-semester course I had been pretending was still way off in "the future" begins in just over a week, and now a new section is being added. For someone who is in complete denial, having a new class to try to ignore at this late date is just so...rude. I suppose some people would find this an enviable position to be in. (Some people also think eating liver is a good idea. Some people are clearly not to be trusted.) It's not that I'm inflexible. I can duck when shit is thrown at me, and just ask me about multitasking -- boy howdy can this girl multitask, especially if it involves managing several instant messaging windows, a game of snood, a bunch of highly crucial emails, and some iTunes playlist creating, while also grading papers. But now there are twice as many performances to produce, twice the opportunity for my cowardice to replace my normally sparkling wit and fascinating intellect. (Only a slight exaggeration, that.) Twice the anxiety, half the enthusiasm. Yeeha.

One Might Suppose That If StinkyLuLu Jumped Off A Cliff, Your Mom Would, Too.

As a matter of fact, there are many things StinkyLu does, that Your Mom does not. This, however, is not one of those.

Herewith, my results in the politics testie mentioned over at LuLu's place. The photo montage showed me placed similarly, on Ghandi's right shoulder, just over Hillary's heart. Oh, for sweet.

You are a Social Liberal (80% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (18% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test