Happy Days in Random Chatter 10

[Portia]

I'm extremely excited to find out in other threads that Uffish is a soon-to-be high school English teacher. Every sixteen-year-old deserves to learn from someone as passionate, funny, and with such good taste in literature. I hope you can get a term-length seminar on the works of Wodehouse going! (Yes, I went to a twee private school.)

[Zedability]

Randomly met a guy who was roommates with Just Another Cassio during his freshman year. Funny coincidences.

[Unit of Energy]

I'm so sick of not knowing what is going to happen next in my life. I really should just sit the many confusing boys in my life and talk to them. Seriously, who tells a girl she's intelligent, knows she works as a programmer, and then offers to come over and show her how to use the KSL website to car shop. You'd think he'd know I can figure out how to use the internet by now. Of course I did want his company, so I didn't say anything.

[Zedability]

I GOT MY SSN!!!!!

[yayfulness]

Awesome!

[Watts]

Okay guys, last week I went to Denver to watch the US Women's Soccer team play and then proceeded to run into my idol Megan Rapinoe in the terminal at the airport. On my 21st birthday. YOU GUYS IT WAS SO EXCITING AND I MADE A COMPLETE FOOL OF MYSELF. But it was awesome.

[Emiliana]

Hey guess what?

I'm engaged.

[Marduk]

Hey guess what?

I'm engaged.

YOU PROMISED YOU WOULD WAIT FOR ME!

No but seriously, congrats! I'd love to hear details (if you feel comfortable sharing, that is.)

[C is for]

Yayyyyy!

I've been waiting for this for months!!

[Katya]

Woohoo!

[Giovanni Schwartz]

http://byzantiumtests.com/

This is probably the trippiest, most pseudo-scientific personality test I've ever taken. I'm curious, though. Does anyone not get the "top x%" thing?

[Cindy]

Hmm, I'm a "troubled individual" in the "top 20% of the country," whatever that means.

[mic0]

What the what? What WAS that? I am "an autonomous striver with hidden strength" and yes I got the top 20% of the country. Right. That's so bizarre.

Is it some sort of weird advertisement for a movie or something? Hunted? Whaaaat. [another edit] Yes, it's an interactive experience related to some new show called Hunted. So at least it isn't supposed to make a lot of sense.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

I am a "troubled individual with hidden strength". Weird, right? But the real question is, do you feel it accurately describes you?

[mic0]

I am a "troubled individual with hidden strength". Weird, right? But the real question is, do you feel it accurately describes you?

Ah, well, it seems more like a very general kind of thing, like how I view astrology (though I now associate with a professional astrologer and so always find myself trying to stay serious when he says things). So, sure, it describes me, but not in a very personal way. Did you try any of the other tests? (I didn't, but I read about it a bit.)

[Giovanni Schwartz]

No, my browser crashed.

[Dead Cat]

I'm an "enduring fighter with masked passions," although I'm pretty sure that that description was something else when I first read it. (Edit: retook it and I know it said "principled independent with a dark side" at first--still don't know why it changed that first time) And I'm also in the top 20%. Also, the placement of the red dot on the bell curve is misleading.

[Katya]

"Principled independent with a dark side" (top 20%)

[mic0]

Oh, Gio, to answer your original question - does everyone get the top X%? Yes, everyone gets top 20%, and then if you progress through the other "tests" you get higher and higher and if you complete the final one then you are in the top 1% and "qualified" to "work" for the "company." (I'm getting a "little" quotes "happy.")

[Emiliana]

Marduk, my fiance says you're a troll. Haha. And C, I'm tickled that you noticed and remembered that question

So back in January, guy-I-was-sort-of-dating -- let's call him Marx -- and I were going to go to a particularly lovely park. I got a bit of a cold and didn't feel like it, so instead he came over to my house and we watched Monty Python, during which he tried to kiss me and I denied him. Before long we were dating for real.

Marx texted me while I was at work on Thursday, asking if I wanted to go for a run in the evening. He told me he had a route in mind near [that one particularly lovely park]. So we parked nearby and started jogging. We were coming up over a bridge over a big fountain, when he said he needed to tie his shoe. I was fiddling with something on my keys, not even looking at him, when I heard him start to say, "Emiliana, will you marry me?" I was so caught off guard that it took me a second to even understand what was going on. He had pulled the ring out of his shoe and was down on one knee holding it out to me.