Meme and Test

I've been tagged by Baggage for the "6 weird things about you" meme. Here goes.

1. My shoe size is the exact same as my father's.
2. While working in New York, I once had a week-long job supervising the estate of a deceased Iranian princess (originally Belgian). I was paid $20 an hour to supervise movers from an Israeli company in packing up her belongings from an apartment on the East Side of Manhattan and a country home in Connecticut and moving them to a storage facility. What was really weird was that the whole time my employer was pressuring me to kidnap her two pet pigeons as part of a complicated power play between estate executors.
3. I am cultivating a pawpaw patch in my backyard.
4. My first complete phrases in Spanish were "¿le gustaría dejar una propina en su tarjeta, por favor?" (Would you like to leave a tip on your credit card?) and "En los Estados Unidos, la propina no está incluída." (In the United States, the tip is not included). Miami restaurant survival.
5. When I was 12 I had a small pet lizard I named "Death Dragon".
6. I love to make opinionated distinctions between good and bad art, movies, music and literature, but I hate to draw distinctions between high and low art, movies, music and literature. People often separate out these categories and apply formalized standards only to high and emotional pleasure-based standards only to low. When I say "people" I mean everyone from your average media consumer to a lot of very sophisticated critics. This has honestly never made sense to me. I'm not saying cultural products shouldn't be considered in the context of their genre, just that they shouldn't be assigned to a binary high/low system. What this means in practical terms: elitist views and anti-intellectual views both suck, apart or together. If someone tells me they have a "guilty pleasure" I might interrogate them and express my viewpoint on this, which they usually find to be truly, deeply weird.

Now I'm wondering who I can tag with this meme. It's going to take a while and I may not be able to get six people.

In the meantime here's a really fun test. I usually think tests are kind of lame but this one is absolutely hilarious; it's a test for people who are kind of sick of tests. (You don't have to register for the dating stuff if you take the test).

The Really QUICK Reassuringly EASY Test Results:

Freakin’ Genius!

You scored 100% Awesomeness!

You are wonderful! If awesomeness was a crime, you’d be in jail for life. You win 1,000,000 points and the respect and admiration of millions of fans. Here is a gold star for you:




My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 21% on Awesomeness

Link: The Really QUICK Reassuringly EASY Test written by andyash on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test