I am Bill Clinton *laugh*

So I took a famous leaders test. *snort*

The four letter test

So, today we had to take tests that assign us four letters. Apparently I am Extroverted rather than introverted, full of iNtuition, I Feel rather than think, and I use Perception rather than judgment. This makes mostly sense. I was surprised, because I got the exact same letters as another girl in my class who most people think is my polar opposite. (She's a very orange, very extroverted, very loud and talkative, and very opinionated.) However, it does make some sense because I think I am more extroverted than introverted, although I can be either depending on the mood. Sometimes I crave company, sometimes I just NEED to get away from people. The percentages are the things that really put everything into perspective... the girl who got the same letters as me's percentages were WAY different... her Extroverted vs. Introverted percentages are 85 and 15, rather than my 52.94 and 47.06.

Extroverted (E) 52.94% Introverted (I) 47.06% Intuitive (N) 62.5% Sensing (S) 37.5% Feeling (F) 61.11% Thinking (T) 38.89% Perceiving (P) 70.97% Judging (J) 29.03%

Your type is: ENFP

Reasons for the below post

1. I was bored.
2. I was doing science homework.

3. I am sick.

4. I have a Chuck Norris fact generator on my computer

Such is life.

Today instead of going to school I had a run-out concert with my orchestra. This is where we go out to elementary schools and do an educational concert for them. It was rather insane: we played to about 1200 students from all over the area. Sometimes it got a little hairy... a gymnasium packed with screaming kids is a bit intimidating. But, we had fun and I think they did too. I spotted some members of my fan club too! *laugh* Last year when we played at this particular school, we got mobbed by a group of young students begging us to give them autographs! Me and a couple of kids were honestly signing for about a half-hour. It was rather hilarious. My friend started having a lot of fun by signing things like "stay in school" and "eat your vegetables." Having a fan club is weird, and not a little creepy. :$

This year I didn't sign autographs, I just played the pink panther theme for a bunch of kids who seemed obsessed with that particular piece of music. Who knew?

Random Chuck Norris Quotes

These are not made to make sense :)

They say curiosity killed the cat.  This is false.  Chuck Norris killed the cat.  Every single one.

Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows that you don't find Chuck, he finds you.

Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter!

Chuck Norris does not style his hair.  It lies flat on his head out of sheer terror.

Some people like to eat frogs legs.  Chuck Norris likes to eat lizard legs.  Hence, snakes.

When you say that no one's perfect, Chuck Norris takes this as a personal insult.

Dinosaurs went extinct because of the Chuck Norrisaurus.

If at first you don't succeed, you are NOT Chuck Norris.

Larry dislikes me

The Larry that I speak of is actually my nickname for laryngitis, which I managed to contract this weekend.  *sigh*  Just my luck, really.  I'm already unbelievably stressed without a virus hanging out behind my earlobes.  (I have an earache/jaw-ache that seems to center behind my ears.) Hopefully it doesn't get any worse.

I shall say nothing else because if I say more, I will probably start complaining.  So, I shall post this picture instead. This is me... I wish.  I have to do homework instead of taking advantage of being sick and watching TV.  There I go complaining again.

For Careers: Ecclesiastes 1 is Utterly Meaningless!

No, actually, Ecclesiastes 1 is not meaningless. It says meaningless though, quite a lot actually. One could say to excess, but it does bring a point across.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."

It then goes on to describe just how meaningless everything is.

It makes me feel rather weary, reading this. I have thought about this so often. I despise society with a hating passion. I mean, really. We're told in elementary school to get good grades so we can get into Academic in High School. Then we're told to get good grades in High School so we can goto a good university. Then we're told to get good grades in uni so we can get a good job. Then we're told to get a better job so we can get a better pension. Then we get old, get our pension and die. How dumb is this?!? We make no room in society for love or for caring for others... it's just an overly competitive world fighting for money and power. I for one don't really want a part in this.

I'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

You know, I'm starting to like and accept the fact that my personality is blue/idealist. Two days ago in Careers class, we divided up into our colour groups: the blues got together, the oranges, the greens, and the golds. I wasn't there, I was singing with the school, uh, "choir" in the music-festival. When I came back, the colour groups has written their likes and dislikes on big pieces of paper on the board. Everything that the blue group wrote fit with my interests. Here is what they wrote:
We Like: music, food, talking, chick flicks, JUNO, summer, Popsicles, home sweet home and animals. We go crazy when we face: nagging, teachers, homework, science 2D, relatives, math, and dirt... Paul likes dirt.

This completely equates to me. I love music and food, chick flicks are amusing, Juno is one of my favourite movies ever, summer is the only time I ever relax fully, I love popsicles when they're chocolate (and other ones aren't half-bad either), I love being at home, and I'm obsessed with cats. In the dislikes, I LOATHE nagging, most teachers aren't half bad people, but they annoy me sometimes when they are teaching, I hate homework because I never do it and fall behind, Science 2D is my least favourite subject this semester, I like relatives but I need my personal space, I had trouble with math last semester, and sure... yay for Paul liking dirt :)

The funny thing is that the orange group's answers, the group I really wanted to be in, annoyed me to no end. And I realized that I'm not in that group for a reason, I don't always get along well with those people... it's just not my personality type. Some of their answers that I found annoying were (exactly as they were written) Likes: Hockey, Gum, and Facebook, Dislikes: Feet, B.O. (aka body odour), and classical music. I mean, why put body odour on there? Nobody likes it, and I thought it was dumb the way they wrote it. I will not comment on the classical music jibe because I will probably start to rant and rave about how "classical" music is actually a mis-nomer and how people misunderstand it... there I go. I shall be quiet now.

Violin competition...duhn duhn duhn

So, I decided to go through with my violin competition, and it didn't go as badly as I thought it would.  It was rather funny... the only other person in my class was my friend Jeremy, but we were cool with competing against each other, or rather, playing with each other, as he termed it. He's right.  I knew I wasn't ready, so I expected him to win, and he did.  Oh well :)  What really threw me off this year was the fact the the school play was way later in the year... last year it was March 1,2,3.  This year, two of the three weeks that I should have been practicing hardest were consumed by late night play practices and performances.

Another thing that was unfortunate was that I was fighting against my bow the whole time.  It's new, and much heavier at the tip than I'm used to.  It kept on sliding out of my grip and just being a pain.  Ah well.  Such is life!

Colour test: I'm starting to believe it.

Hmm... so, my second personality test confirmed the answers of my first one. I am blue, which means I'm compassionate. I am always encouraging and supporting. I am a peacemaker, sensitive to the needs of others. I am a natural romantic. This makes sense, I guess. Along with the whole blue thing comes this creepy little picture of blue clowns (I dislike clowns: they creep me out) which I am including just for kicks. My second-most prominent personality is orange, which makes sense, because I think that orange is adventurous and stuff like that, which fits with artisan, which is probably my second most prominent personality.

Personality test: believe it, or not?

So, we just finished our first personality test. And I'm almost, I dunno, angry. I despise the whole act of being put into boxes. And I was put into the box of being an idealist. It's good, I guess, but it wasn't what I thought I would be. You see, there are four different categories that you can be sorted into: Artisan, Guardian, Idealist and Rationalist. In all honesty, I was sure I was going to be an artisan because that's what I want to be. Idealist is nice, and maybe that is really what I am at heart, but I've been trying to stand out and break out of the mold. As my friend sitting next to me says "Wow, everyone's an idealist!" Ugh. Why would I want to be like everyone else?

All Idealists (NFs) share the following core characteristics:

• Idealists pride themselves on being loving, kindhearted, and authentic.
• Idealists are enthusiastic, they trust their intuition, yearn for romance, seek their
  true self, prize meaningful relationships, and dream of attaining wisdom.
• Idealists tend to be giving, trusting, spiritual, and they are focused on personal
  journeys and human potentials.
• Idealists make intense mates, nurturing parents, and inspirational leaders.

This makes a lot of sense. It is me, really. But I don't know if that's what I want to be.

First post for careers class... What is a calling?

A calling is different from a job, I think. I hesitant to say the word destiny, because destiny seems to go hand in hand with humanism: the thought that we as humans are completely in control of everything. Instead I'll put God into the equation. I think that God has a perfect plan for our lives. Sometimes we try to "fix" God's plan, and we completely mess ourselves up.

Oh the irony!

Stress

And I thought violin was supposed to be fun.

I'm preparing for my violin competition on Tuesday, and I'm feeling rather discouraged. I'm in the highest grade of violin and I suppose I'm rather good. :) Most of the time anyway. I think the problem with preparing for this particular competition was the fact that I have so many other commitments.

I absolutely adore the piece I'm playing, Praeludium and Allegro by Kreisler, but I'm just not ready. My violin teacher wants me to play, but I have a problem with going to a competition and not playing my best. So, my options are to cop out of the competition, or go there and be disappointed with myself. Hm... Oh well. I'll try to be sickeningly cheerful about it. <:D

Radish :)

Blogging is rather fascinating

My name is Sarah :)

In all honesty, I've been wanting to start a blog for a while. I used to write in a diary a lot; two years ago I wrote about 150 typed pages of journal. Then I got bored. Last year I made a video diary, which was pretty sweet, but it takes up way too much space on my computer and I can't burn it on a DVD for some peculiar reason.

This blog is technically for careers class, but I'm just going to adopt it as my own. I guess school does come in handy sometimes.

I use the name Radish for a couple of reasons. One, is that I am slightly obsessed with Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter (I'll explain later) Two, is that I've never eaten a radish, therefore I do not dislike the vegetable. Three, is that I think it's a rather amusing nickname to sport.

So, if you happen to be reading this blog, welcome to my world.

Radish :)