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September 13, 2006
Take the Official bookofjoe Personality Test™
Visitors to bookofjoe World Headquarters™ do so automatically and now you can too.
What do you see above?
No, not the dust — gimme a break, will ya?
Does something seem a bit, shall we say, out of place?
Out of kilter?
More to the point: walking into my living room and seeing the turned cedar bowl — filled with Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri, if you must know, my ab fab fave scent for I don't know how long, maybe even since last century... but I digress — would you nudge it back onto the table so it wasn't in as precarious a position?
If you didn't, would you want to?
That's the test.
There's no pass or fail: it simply tells you — and, more importantly, me — everything I need to know about what you're really like.
You can find the Official Potpourri of bookofjoe™ here.
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I find it fascinating, the number of folks commenting that want to move it, or take issue with the dust. Guess I must be the oddball. Its fine where it is, kind of cool actually.
Posted by: Ron | Sep 15, 2006 1:58:05 AM
How could anyone not push it back where it went, possibly stopping to play with the contents for a second. How?!
Posted by: Adam P Knave | Sep 14, 2006 10:06:40 AM
What is more interesting is that I think I've spotted a new addition to the Treadmill O' Death in the background.
You've got a TV back there now -- or has that always been there.
Nope don't see it here nine months back:
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2005/12/bookofjoe_tread.html
Are ya holding out on us? Your ADHD catching up with you in your old age? Not just interested in giving us interesting new -- but you are cheating on us by getting your news from contemporary sources, while we have to get it from the crack research team???
Then again, I usually keep two laptops in my living room and the TV running at all times (err...one is running student crap nearly 24/7 so it probably doesn't count except for babysitting)...no treadmill yet...so I can't complain too much lest I get all hypocritical :-)
Posted by: clifyt | Sep 14, 2006 8:55:43 AM
Oh My God.....What a nightmare you live in... How long would it have taken for you to simply get a damp cloth and wipe that disgusting dust up? A whole minute? I would not ever set foot in the space where you live, nor would I allow my children to get Halloween candy from you. I can easily tell there's no woman living there. Men are indeed pigs. More fighteningly, apparently you work in a hospital? Why not try investing a small amount of time making your personal space sanitary? I don't want to imagine what your (gasp!)bathroom looks like...Eeeeeeeeeek!
Posted by: Bettie | Sep 14, 2006 8:48:57 AM
You know it doesn't really matter how the bowl is positioned in that pic. What I see isn't the dust or the fact that the bowl is almost falling off the edge, I see a face, captured next to the bowl as in a shadow of a person with a nose trying to smell the potpourri. Could be just a black hat sitting next to the wall to make that impression of a face with a nose? Or maybe the photographer didn't realize that they were taking a double exposed pic? Ok enough gazing at this...because it makes me want to catch it when it does fall. Hope we pass the test....hehehe
When do we find out??
Posted by: Rhonda | Sep 14, 2006 8:33:05 AM
If the owner of the bowl were nearby, I would shove it even closer to the point of capsize, but not quite off the edge. If he were absent, i would... okay, I would shove it even closer to the point of capsize, but not quite off the edge.
To irritate a really anal-retentive neat-freak boyfriend I had in college, sometimes I would do really stupid random shit before I left--like line up three forks on his sofa or balance all the coffee table books on edge or take all the lids off his spice containers and build a tower out of them--just to get his goat. I decided he should find it adorable. So, that dangerously positioned bowl, to me, is cute as a button.
No one needs to give you a personality test, because you already fessed up not only to owning potpourri, but to having an actual favorite.
Posted by: thelizabeff | Sep 14, 2006 1:56:55 AM
c. I would steal the beautiful bowl.
You know, if you're not going to look after your stuff I totally have the right to save it from inevitable destruction.
muhwahahahaha
Posted by: IB | Sep 13, 2006 11:01:34 PM
Cool...I've been meaning to find a reason to stop giving the MBTI (err...Myers Briggs), now I got one.
Though personally, I'd knock it off the table and blame the cat. Cats are like children -- they are guilty of something no matter what, so it would serve two purposes. It will allow entropy to take its rightful place and it will punish the furbol. Hell, just looking at my cats giving me the wuzntme face without even prodding, I want swat the lil' fiends knowing they deserve it.
Posted by: clifyt | Sep 13, 2006 9:54:58 PM
didn't even notice the dust - would like to know what exactly is the psych behind the test?
Posted by: cb | Sep 13, 2006 8:36:40 PM
I agree with Flautist. I can't even look at that picture without getting itchy. I do rearrange things in other people's houses and offices. I just can't help it. Well, OK, I only do it in offices of people I'm comfortable with, so I guess I can help it a little.
I once accidentally knocked over a plant in a bigwig's office in HQ, but of course that wasn't on purpose - I didn't know it was there. But it's WHY those kind of things give me the willies, because there's just so much potential energy waiting to be released...
My sister and her husband had conch shells on their mantel. He's also a compulsive rearranger. For about a year she played a game where she'd move the shells an inch or two just to see if he'd notice. He would put them back without saying anything.
My other sister used to do that to HER by rearranging the doll house when they were growing up, and she'd have conniptions that a tiny chair was moved a few cm, etc. So I guess it's all fair in the end.
Posted by: anonymouse | Sep 13, 2006 8:33:13 PM
Well, I have a test, too. It will tell me all I need to know about anyone in the whole world.
1. Peppermint or Spearmint?
2. Coleman Hawkins or Lester Young?
3. Peach or Nectarine?
4. Matte or Glossy?
5. Lubricated or Non? (HAH. Just seeing if anybody was paying attention.)
Posted by: Flautist | Sep 13, 2006 7:40:51 PM
1st, I would dust...and probably the whole house. actually, I would hire someone to dust. then I would worry about safe placement of the bowl. if i was not allowed to dispatch the CDT (crack dusting team), I would hit the bowl as hard as possible with my right hand on it's right rim and take a picture with my left of all the stuff in it flying through the air. I would, however, put a pillow on the floor to catch the very nice bowl...
Posted by: stephen bove | Sep 13, 2006 6:17:53 PM
I won't reveal my action but will say that an elderly Swedish-Norwegian woman I know MUST arrange all items in her house -- and others -- so that they are perpendicular and parallel. For example, she takes great care with magazine edges, etc.
The round bowl would throw her off -- way off.
Posted by: Mb | Sep 13, 2006 4:05:10 PM
Oh, the TEST. I can't even stand to look at the picture, is how bad I want to nudge it to safety. But THEN I want to issue a stinging reproof to the miscreant who got it like that. And don't say it was an earth tremor.
Posted by: Flautist | Sep 13, 2006 2:37:11 PM
I would move the bowl of Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri at least five (5) inches away from the edge if space allowed. I would pick up the bowl and then place it where I wouldn't knock it off the edge (knowing me like I do).
Now here's a question for you. If I did knock the bowl of Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri off the edge would you:
a) leave the Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri where it fell
b) scoop the Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri back into bowl
c) vacuum up the Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri and replace it with fresh Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri
d) boot me out of the house to wonder why the bowl of Agraria Bitter Orange potpourri was hanging over the edge
Posted by: Brian | Sep 13, 2006 2:33:43 PM
I knew that was a wooden bowl (I didn't know cedar), and it quite obviously is slouching toward disaster, but I figured it was full of kitty chow (although, now that I search my memory archives it does seem that I've seen the odd pic of a feline chowing down from a bowl set, i.e., water/chow together, on a floor space) and I assumed that Horatio or Hobart or whatever his name is (it's been so LONG) had possibly tired of the same-old same-old (the cat version of "shit on a shingle" or SOS, if you will) and had moved the beloved bowl into said precarious position to make a point. As cats will do.
What I am shocked and amazed by is the sprinkling of dust. DUST! At boj headquarters! When a CRT (Crack Research Team member) slinks through on her way to woodshed/development, couldn't she just run a swiffer over a surface or two? I mean, it's not asking that much, is it? Or at the least, affix swiffers to the sides of the feline members. SOMEbody has to work around there. Good grief.
Posted by: Flautist | Sep 13, 2006 2:32:40 PM
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