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No questions selected where I thought people would definitely give awful answers >:)

http://blunttruth.jaazsoftware.com/takesurvey.cfm?uid=5693

that when I do these things, I almost never use 1 or 10, and rarely 2 or 9--most of my scores are in the 3-8 range. It's a thing of mine, I don't like using extremes.

also, I think 1-5 is a better system than 1-10, it's too hard to distinguish 8 from 7 and so on (I think this about IMDb too).

Mostly, I tried not to put in questions where I thought I'd get answers I really don't want (I'm not stupid enough to ask about my weight, unless I want to see just HOW low the scores get!) But I have been a little surprised so far... and since I always analyze stuff like this....

Hmmm, apparently most people think I'm lazy. Not surprising that :-) Actually I'm not always as lazy as I make out, though I do sleep a lot. It seems to be hard wired. Some people are lucky; they sleep 6 hours or less, and are fresh as a daisy. Not me :-(

How annoying - quite a split here, and surprising. Happened to check results when only 1 new survey had been put in, and the person gave me a 7 but wasn't horribly negative otherwise. It's not that I think I'm never annoying, and I know this is a totally subjective question: everyone finds different things annoying. Still slightly surprised though. Can't work out if I'm bothered or not; since a lot of people taking this test haven't met me, or have only under limited circumstances, it might just reflect that. Who knows.

Am surprised that 2 people don't trust me. Of all my flaws, I wouldn't say "untrustworthy" was a big one. I've never blabbed anything embarrassing about anyone for example. This is the only one that really bothers me to any degree--I'm interested as to how I've given anyone reason to think I'm not trustworthy.

Gossip - wanted to see if I'd get as much variation on this as I thought I would and I was right :) I do gossip sometimes, but only to certain friends and I have a rule, no mean gossip. (Except when it comes to about 3 people, who have been so thoroughly rotten to me that I feel no compunctions about saying anything unless it's patently untrue. I'm nice, but not a sucker.) On the one hand, I'm nosy and this leads to disaster. On the other, I wouldn't want people saying mean things about me, so I try not to do it to others.

Most of the others were within expectations, or had easily-explicable variations--for example, talkativeness varies, sometimes I'll be a mile a minute, and other times pretty quiet. (The "Alexis Talkativeness Factor" is currently being worked out by a team of skilled hypermathematicians at the University of Maximegalon.) Or patience: To judge from my diary, I've got about zero, but that's where I tend to get worked up and ranty. If you haven't spent more than 5 minutes with me you wouldn't know I could be patient at all. Or selfishness: I try to be generous, but we all think of ourselves sometimes...

(If you care, and you probably don't: http://blunttruth.jaazsoftware.com/showratings.cfm?uid=1650

this is all a sign of my inner insecurity and if I were confident about myself, I wouldn't care about the results of stupid Internet surveys... and that if I at least had some SENSE I would have stuck to my decision not to do these things....

I know all this, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm an enormous mass of insecurities......!

My area is featured in this week's "If you're thinking of living in..." column in the New York Times :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/realestate/11LIVI.html