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Well, I can't get the bars with the results to show up, so apparently I'm not as good at stealing as I thought I was...

 

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The scale below is an indication of where you fall in the male-female brain continuum. The results are based on the angles, spot the difference, 3D shapes and words tasks. Bear in mind that your performance may be affected by many factors in addition to gender, like age and intelligence.

Your personal brain score: Average score for MEN who've taken this survey: Average score for WOMEN who've taken this survey:

If you are using a public PC we strongly advise you to print out and delete your results if you do not want anyone to see them.

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	Angles
	This task tested your ability to identify the angle of a line by matching it with its twin. This is a spatial task, which looks at how you picture space. Your score: 16 out of 20 Average score for men: 15.1 out of 20 Average score for women: 13.3 out of 20 What does your result suggest? If you scored 0 - 12: You have more of a female brain. Scientists believe that people with a female brain find it more difficult to judge the slope of a line because they're not wired for spatial tasks. In past studies, 65 per cent of people who scored in this range were women. If you scored 13 - 17: You found this test neither hard nor easy. This suggests your brain has male and female traits when it comes to spatial ability. If you scored 18 - 20: You have more of a male brain. On average, men outperform women in this task and those with more mathematical knowledge tend to score quite high as well. In past studies, 60 per cent of the people in this range were men. Interestingly, men's testosterone levels fluctuate through the seasons and studies have shown that men's scores are lower in the spring, when their testosterone levels are at their lowest. Do our cave dwelling ancestors offer us any clues about why men and women score differently on this task? Find out more.
	Spot the difference
	This task tested your ability to identify which objects changed position. You lost points, if you incorrectly identified objects. Your score: 64% Average score for men: 39% Average score for women: 46% What does your score suggest? If you scored between 0 - 33%: You may have more of a male brain. Scientists say men tend to under perform in this task. The corpus callosum, the part of the brain that links the right and left hemispheres, is a fifth larger in women. This means women can process visual and other signals at the same time more easily than men. There is also a theory that oestrogen levels in women give them an added advantage in spatial memory. If you scored between 34 - 66%: You may have a balanced female-male brain. If you scored between 67 - 100%: Those with a female-type brain generally score in this range. Your ability to remember where objects are may serve as an advantage to you when you're trying to find your way around places. You're more capable of recalling landmarks to get from one place to another. Find out more about our spatial abilities.

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Hands

You said your right thumb was on top when you clasped your hands together. Right thumb on top: This suggests the left half of your brain is dominant. Many studies have tried to establish whether there is a relationship between handedness and brain dominance. Some scientists believe that if you are left brain dominant, you would be more verbal and analytical. Left thumb on top: This suggests the right half of your brain is dominant. Some studies theorise that as a right brain dominant person, you may excel in visual, spatial and intuitive processes. However, these theories are debatable and leave much to be said about the small percentage of people who are ambidextrous. Find out why right-brained people may be better fighters and artists.

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Emotions and Systems

This task looked at whether you prefer to empathise or systemise. Empathising Your empathy score is: 4 out of 20 Average score for men: 7.9 out of 20 Average score for women: 10.6 out of 20 What does your result suggest? Empathisers are better at accurately judging other people's emotions and responding appropriately. If you scored 15 and above, you are very empathic and would be an ideal person to comfort people in a time of crisis. Women in general are better at empathising. Systemising Your systemising score is: 9 out of 20 Average score for men: 12.5 out of 20 Average score for women: 8.0 out of 20 What does your result suggest? Systemisers prefer to investigate how systems work. A system can be a road map, flat pack furniture, or a mathematical equation – anything that follows a set of rules. A score of 15 and above suggests you're good at analysing or building systems. Men in general are better at systemising. Scientists are keen to learn more about people who score high or low on both tests. They want to find out whether or not empathising and systemising are linked. Is a possible to make yourself more empathic? Some scientists claim that our empathy and systemising abilities can be traced all the way back to prehistoric times. Find out more.

Eyes

This task tested your ability to judge people's emotions. Your score: 6 out of 10 Average score for men: 6.6 out of 10 Average score for women: 6.6 out of 10 What does your result suggest? If you scored 0 - 3: Do you think you're good at judging how another person is feeling? Your score suggests this doesn't come to you quite so naturally. If you scored 4 - 6: Your result suggests you have a balanced female-male brain and find it neither easy nor difficult to judge people's emotions. If you scored 7 - 10: Your result suggests you are a good empathiser, sensitive to other people's emotions. Women generally fall into this category. Professor Baron-Cohen at the University of Cambridge says that people usually perform better than they expect to on this test. Men often think a person's eyes are sending signals of desire when that's not the case at all. Find out more.

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Fingers

We asked you to measure your ring and index fingers. Your ratios came to: Right Hand: 0.93 Left Hand: 0.93 Average ratio for men: 0.982 Average ratio for women: 0.991 It's thought that your ratio is governed by the amount of testosterone you were exposed to in your mother's womb. The ratio of the length of your index finger to the length of your ring finger is set for life by as early as three months after conception. Even during puberty, when we experience intensive hormonal changes, the ratio stays the same. Men generally have a ring finger that is longer than their index finger, which gives them a lower ratio than women, whose ring and index fingers are usually of equal length. Studies have found that men and women with lots of brothers generally have more masculine finger ratios. Find out what other things scientists think our ratios may tell us.

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Faces

This task looked at how you rate the attractiveness of a series of faces. The images you looked at were digitally altered to create slight differences in masculinity. Your choices suggest you prefer more masculine faces. Highly masculinised male faces possess more extreme testosterone markers such as a long, broad and lower jaw, as well as more pronounced brow ridges and cheekbones. Interestingly, women's preferences are said to vary across the menstrual phase. A more masculine face is preferred during the 9 days prior to ovulation, when conception is most likely. A typical 'attractive' female face possesses features such as a shorter, narrower, lower jaw, fuller lips and larger eyes than an average face. Are you surprised at what researchers think they can learn from your answers? Find out more.

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3D shapes

This task tested your ability to mentally rotate 3D shapes. Your score: 12 out of 12 Average score for men: 8.2 out of 12 Average score for women: 7.1 out of 12 What does your result suggest? If you scored 0 - 6: Do you find yourself having to physically rotate a map to point in the direction in which you're travelling? This might explain why you scored in the lower range in the 3D shapes test. Twice as many women as men score in this category. Previous studies suggest that those with a female-type brain or with an arts background fall into this range. If you scored 7 - 9: In past studies, 50 per cent of the people who scored in this range were women and 50 per cent were men. If you scored 10 - 12: Are you an engineer or do you have a science background? People with these skills tend to score in this range. Past studies have concluded that people in this range have a more male brain. Nearly a third of men who took this test got full marks, whereas less than 10 per cent of women managed the same. Find out why.

Words

This task looked at your verbal fluency. Your score: you associated 6 word(s) with grey and you named 3 word(s) that mean happy. We are assuming that all the words you entered are correct. Average score for men: 11.4 words total Average score for women: 12.4 words total What does your result suggest? If you produced 1 - 5 words: You are more of the strong, silent type with a male brain. You probably find it easier to express yourself in non-verbal ways, preferring action rather than words. If you produced 6 - 10 words: Most people in this range have a female-type brain. Women are said to use both sides of the brain when doing verbal tasks while men mainly use their left side. Studies have shown that girls develop vocabulary faster than boys. This difference in brain power is caused by levels of pre-natal testosterone. Find out more .

Ultimatum

This task asked you how you would divide money. If you had to split £50 with someone, you said you would demand £25 So far on the Sex ID test, men have demanded 51.6% (£25.80) of the pot and women have demanded 51.0% (£25.50), on average. What does your response suggest? Sex differences are small in this task. Demanding less than 60% of the pot (ie £30) is more typically female. Demanding more than 65% of the pot (ie £32.50) is more typically male. Scientists believe that people with lower testosterone levels tend to take fewer risks so they are probably more willing to keep less for themselves. Those with higher testosterone levels tend to drive a harder bargain and are less compromising. Men's testosterone levels fluctuate over the seasons and are at their lowest levels during the springtime. This is said to influence their bargaining power. Find out more about the role of testosterone.

I wish I could say that my family did not drive me nuts, but I can't. C'est la vie I guess. What I can say, with much certainty, is that I do not, anytime in the near future, want children (and I can't fit anymore commas in this sentence). I will be an aunt for the 13th time in April and a great aunt (!) sometime in August. I've had my fill of children for awhile. I will stick to my kitty for the time being and schedule a trip to see the rugrats anytime I feel my maternal instincts kicking in.

Otherwise, Santa was good to me. He brought me a digital camera and 4x6 picture printer! Now I can finally join the rest of the world in sharing photos quickly and easily. And, of course, I will be able to scrapbook with much more ease! Woo Hoo! You will be the first to see my lovely photography skills as soon as I cut my hair. Well, I guess it won't be my photography skills because it would be hard to take pictures of myself while getting my hair cut, but you will get to see the effects of the camera. And, Lindsey, I think I will be copying the haircut you got earlier this year/last year? because that is how short my hair is going to be and that is the only style that you can have at that length really.

Well, I guess that's it for now. I will update later with pictures of the haircut. Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night!

 

So, long story short, there was no carriage ride But, we did go to a little mountain town and play in the snow - see myspace.com/jesusinhotpants for pic.

I am going "home" (to GA) for Christmas and will be cutting off the ridiculously long hair - if you have any suggestions for cut/style let me know.

I am moving just before the new year - Lindsey, I will email you the address as soon as I figure out exactly what that is.

My car got hit and run again! Grr... I wish it was paid off so I could just trade it in for something a little less magnetic.

Joe needs a superhero idea for the new year's party he is going to - any suggestions would be fun to laugh about.

I have only 2 minutes left at the library. I'll update again sometime - maybe over christmas if my parents have internet...

 

So, I guess maybe I should update this thing more often... I had to try several times to get my username and password combo right and then it took me about 5 minutes to figure out the new site layout since bravenet changed everything around on me! Craziness. So, let's see... Portland is wonderful. The weather is interesting though. It started raining around nov. 3 and stopped just a couple of days ago although it has sprinkled off and on since then, but at least there are breaks between the storms this week. I don't mind the rain so much. It's kind of refreshing and it makes for great afternoon naps! And the last couple of days have been nice and nippy (upper 40s-50s I'm guessing) and damp. I liken it to the days after a big storm hits Laramie and then all the snow melts before it snows again. Good sweater, hat and scarf weather but I haven't really broken out the big coats yet. I may need to invest in an umbrella soon.

I got a new job - I start the Monday after Thanksgiving. I will be working at the Wells Fargo credit card customer service call center. So, still nothing related to anything I might ever want to do, but it pays the bills. Also, I will have a much better schedule than my current 4AM-Noon hours including saturdays off. This means that I probably won't be able to volunteer at the Red Cross for right now, but maybe at the zoo! Exciting, I know. I was going to volunteer at the zoo in Sacramento, but I couldn't get Satudays off for the training. So, I'll keep you posted on that if I ever get around to doing it.

Hmm... I have read lots lately, as my current (sucky) job has lots of down time. I recommend Jennifer Weiner as an author. Good stuff. She wrote "In her shoes" so if you haven't seen the movie, I recommend the book first. Also, I read "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. It has an interesting perspective on life after death. It got a little long at parts, but overall enjoyable. I am trying to get ahold of a copy of "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" so if any of you have read it let me know what you think. Also, I read "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire. Very good book and a good follow up to the musical. Although, when I think about it, I'm not so sure I would have enjoyed it so much if I didn't love "The Wizard of Oz" and the musical. I'm currently taking recommendations on other good reads if anyone has any.

My birthday was good. Primo and I went down to Corvallis for the OSU game vs. Arizona State and watched OSU kick some Sun Devil ass. And I got The OC: Season 3 on DVD! so I am trying to catch up on all the drama I had to miss last fall due to the stupid Grad school class I tried to take.

For Thanksgiving I am going home with Primo to Coeur d'Alene, ID. It should be interesting. He keeps saying his parents are really excited that I am coming which is good, but a lot of pressure. I've only met them one other time and I'm not sure how they felt about me. YIKES! But apparently there is a big kick of to winter festival or something like that and they have fireworks and stuff the day after Thanksgiving. Also, if there is snow (I hope, I hope there is) then we can take a horse drawn sleigh ride around the big resort. Oh, and his sister is the head chef at his parent's restaurant so I expect Thanksgiving dinner to be very delicious!

 

 

I have a place to live! Until the end of November anyway. But that will give me some time to find a good place instead of just taking the first thing that comes along. I will be sharing a 2 bedroom apartment with a gal named Jolene. I met her last night and she seems to be pretty normal, unlike some past roommates I have had. She is here for an engineering internship, so at least she is intelligent.

The apartment complex appears to be relatively new and large (200 or so apartments). The apartment has full washer and dryer, as well as a dishwasher. The complex offers a lot of amenities too. You can click the link below  to view the complex and floorplan and see a list of all the extras. The floorplan you will want to click on is the two bedroom and it is the first layout on the page.

http://www.aptselector.com/direct/drlookup.phtml?oid=507072&bldgnumber=55581&logo=aptlogo.gif&images=or&showref=no&pic=yes

I move in probably Tuesday and rent is only $279/mo! Sweet deal.

There were red and orange leaves all over my car this morning from the tree out front! and Tuesday's high was 67 degrees and yesterday was 69! I wish it could be like that all year. I can't wait for the rain to come. I need to get an umbrella first though. Oooh, and maybe some galoshas (or however you spell that).

In other news, I got a job today. I will be taking customer sevice calls to recharge peoples' pre-paid phones and calling cards. I start on Tuesday and will be working between 4AM and Noon everyday so that should be great. But it's one less thing I have to worry about for right now. I would eventually like to work for comcast's call center because their employees get free cable and internet.

So, I'm just waiting to hear back about the apartment I applied for, for which there is someone else ahead of me, so I probably won't get it, but at the same time, don't want to pull my application just in case. But, I really need my own place... well, I WANT my own place anyway. Roommates are so overrated.

Well, I made it. Primo came down to Cali on Friday night, helped me pack, and drove all the way up to Portland in the full size sedan cum clown car. Promptly upon our arrival in the City of Roses we drove out to the kickball field where Primo and Lacey's team won the championship game! I then got to watch the whole team split two free large pizzas and several pitchers of beer without partaking. It was sad.

Later that night, we went to the coolest movie theater ever. First let me start by explaining McMenamins. It is a chain of restaurants/theaters/hotels/bars/concert venues here in Oregon. The Kennedy School is a McMenamins that used to be an old school house and still looks the part. Only now, they have converted the gymnasium into a theater, the detention room into a bar, added hotel rooms, restaurants and other bars throughout the school and voila! You have the coolest place ever. The theater is a bunch of sofas, chairs and tables laid out on the gym floor. Admission is $3, you have to be 21 to get in and you can bring in your meal! We watched "Thank you for Smoking" from the comfort of our sofa while enjoying our pizza slices and sodas. I recommend it to everyone!

Yesterday we drove around downtown which is pretty much the best downtown I have seen in a long time. They have all sorts of fun restaurants and stores that I can't wait to explore! I'm trying to wait until I have an apartment complete with coffee table before I venture into Powell's bookstore (one of the largest bookstores in the world - it takes up a full city block and is three stories high in some areas) to look for coffee table books! Yes, I'm a nerd like that.

Oh, and they have a Theater District with several opera and play houses! Yay! This makes me happy. Portland feels a lot better than moving to Cali did. I hope it stays this great. I can't imagine that I will ever grow tired of this place. I'm looking forward to going to the zoo for "Zoolights" around Christmas and I think they have something cool around Halloween too. And I want to tour wine country and drink wine until I actually like it. And go to Multnomah Falls - the third highest in the world - maybe just in the nation. And, hopefully, when I have some moeny saved up, I can take sailing lessons (on my list of things to do in this lifetime) on the Columbia River.

I'm still looking for a place to live. Shelled out a $42.50 application fee for an apartment I may not get - that's going to be fun if it continues. No job yet either, but I only just got started looking for one online today and applied for two. I love it here! I can't wait to have my own place though. It kind of sucks being a guest. Not that Primo and Lacey aren't great people and cool to hang out with, but I feel like a bit of an intruder.

Plus Tango isn't liking the living arrangements either. She has to go out to the garage when I leave and at night she is supposed to stay upstairs in the bedroom. However, I fear she is part rooster because every morning, just as the sun starts to come up, she starts getting bored and wants to get up and run around the house. This means we get woken up to her meowing, jumping in the window and popping out the screen, and pawing on the door. It's fantastic.

Oh, and in case anyone was curious - Portland is the new Gillette. Let me name a few people from high school you all might remember who are now living in Portland: Chris Williams, Joe Lawrence, Aubrey Rumph, and Matt Ruff/Ballinger. So, if you are keeping tally, that makes three of my ex-boyfriends that live in Portland - how could this possibly go wrong?!

Sorry, I didn't die. I just suck at working two jobs, finding a place to live, preparing to move AND updating the blog. I guess I just wasn't cut out for this type of crazy lifestyle. Sorry to disappoint you all.

So, the big news is I leave in two weeks! Yikes! I still don't have a place to live, mostly because I am really picky and don't want to live with other people, yet can't really afford to pay much for rent. I guess beggars can't be choosey, but we'll see. Also, I haven't even began looking for a job, which is another problem with committing to a higher rent than what I am used to. Sigh. But, Portland is the new Gillette so at least if all else fails I can live for a week with each person I know there and that would afford me about two months time.

Also, I gave my notice at my second job tonight. However, I'm a little more nervous about telling my real job, Gymboree, that I am leaving. This is partially because I like the job and the people. And, it is partially because I JUST got a raise this week and have been training for yet another department. Honestly, I have no idea what these people see in me or why they think I am so great, but whatever.

Oh, and the roommates... ugh. So, Kristin (effervesence) left for Nebraska this week and won't be back before I leave. She subleased her room and the gal is moving in tomorrow I guess, so we'll see how that goes. Anyway, I swear the minute she left things went to shit. I think everyone else was afraid to rebel against her mostly because it would have upset the chi in the house. So, she cleaned the entire house before she left so that the gal who is moving in would not be disgusted when she arrives, but it is a disaster already. Two of the roommates are really dirty and one of them and the other roommate are moving to scotland in a couple of weeks and preparing all of their crap for the trip and a garage sale.

So, there are bags and boxes of clothes all over the house along with the normal spills on the countertops and rotting food and pots and pans overflowing from the sink. Then, I woke up this morning to find that Kristin's couch has been moved to the patio! The patio! Outside! Exposed to the elements for no good reason. In its place is a couch that was found on the street! Are you f***ing kidding me?! They put her couch in the back yard and put a couch that some dog probably p***ed on in its place. I do not understand this logic. In the process of switching the couches, they broke both of the fans. Both of them! Not one, but TWO! They also had me call Kristin to find out where her spare key for her car was because she left it in the driveway, which would have upset their plans for their garage sale and Kristin and I get along so they wanted me to call her.

Oh, another thing I will not miss: The open cabinets. I swear they are completely incapable of closing cabinet doors in the kitchen. And they don't just leave one ajar once in awhile. They literally leave all of them all the way open all the time. Needless to say, when I got tired of scrubbing the kitchen clean once a week back in October, I also stopped useing the kitchen and dining table. I will occasionally bake something in the oven, but I wash the dishes first, line them with foil, wash them after and put them away. Then I get the heck out of there for fear that extended exposure may scar me forever with some awful disease.

And I cannot explain without scratch and sniff how badly Shaina (my room roommate) smells! You know how those leather Dr. Marten-esque chunky sandals would get kind of a funky smell if you got them wet and wore them without socks. I guess it's the same smell that occurs if you wear tennis shoes without socks. Or sweat in general and don't shower. Yeah, she's basically like a walking sweatsock. I literally throw up in my throat a little bit everytime she comes within 10 feet of me. And she says the dog smells... I don't get it. I can't smell the dog. The dog doesn't make me want to vomit when he is right up in my face, but her smell does. I guess she is just used to it or something. Whatever.

All I can say is I won't miss this place one bit. And I will never live with a million people again. And I will never, ever, ever, live with people I have never met. And I will NOT share a room. No matter how poor I am. It's time to be on my own. Or maybe just live with one other person who I meet in advance. Oh yeah, and I was just reminded that I can't understand a word Shaina says. All I know is that she YELLS all the time. She doesn't know about six inch voices. And she whines when she talks to her boyfriend. Haaarrrrriiiiissss!!!!!! Why'dyouhanguponme!?!?!?! Whatthehell! You'resostupid!!! Gobuymeapresentandpaymyrentandallmyotherbills. HHHAAARRRIIIISSSS!! GAWD!

Shoot me now. I don't know if I can make it two more weeks. Not without Kristin on my side! Here's hoping I can make it.

Sorry for all the complaining. I promise I will be in a better mood in a couple of months when I am all settled in Portland with my own space and less stress. Hope everyone else is less frazzled than I.

So, we recently had an employee appreciation thing at work and we got an extra discount on our purchases. So, I ordered some things for my niece and also got the things that my sister wanted to order as well. We aren't allowed to place our own orders in the system because they don't trust us so I had to call the orders in. I ordered everything, gave them the address, my card number, etc and all was well.

My sister calls me shortly after to say that she wants to add an additional item. It's too late to add to the order so I have to place a second order - and pay shipping on this order as well because they only pretend to appreciate us. All is fine and well, I check the tracking info and everything looks fine... until today. The first package delivered just fine, but the second package says "wrong address" or some nonsense like that! WTF? How could this have happened? I look closely at the email confirmations to find that the second order was shipped to 2458 instead of 2248. GRRR!!!

So, I call in and ask WTF the moron who took my order was doing when he selected the address and to have them contact UPS to reroute it to the correct address. Normally, if we screw up and the customer calls us on it we say "sorry, we'll do that right away at no additional charge to you." But do I get the same treatment as any Joe Schmoe angry customer? Of course not! They want to charge me the $5 fee to contact UPS!

"You have to be kidding me," I say. "You know that I did not place the order and obviously the packages were supposed to ship to the same address. All you had to do was select the CORRECT address from the drop down menu when I gave it to you! How do you screw that up?!" "I selected the address from the drop down menu..." comes the reply. "You may very well have done that, but you didn't select the address I gave you." "Yes, well, we'll get that taken care of for you right away."

They have no idea how angry I will be if they try to charge me $5 for this. Granted, it's not a huge fee, and I've wasted far more money on far less important things, but this is one of those "principle of the matter" situations where they should take care of their mistakes and own up to the fact that they are all stupid asses. Not to mention the fact that I am a FREAKING employee and I deserve to be treated like I matter, damn it! Let's just say I'll be checking my account first thing in the morning....