Funny as hell if you’ve read or seen Waiting for Godot…

Write from the point of view of the last tree left standing in a forest.

Here’s what I came up with:

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Here’s my newest major writing endeavor. I don’t have any high hopes of ever getting it published—I just like writing. This is a Medieval-ish piece, so sorry if that’s not your cup of tea.

This piece is a pre-cursor to this piece, which occurs after Caelum has recruited a few other kindred souls (although we only see one of them in that piece).

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Fail!

I was talking with a friend a few nights back about the Meyers-Briggs Type Index (A.K.A. Kiersey Sorter)—you know, the highly-accurate personality test that gives you a type like INFP or ESTJ? He mentioned that he had never taken it, so I decided to put a copy of it here on my website. I didn’t actually write these questions, but I did all the programming for the page.

Meyers-Briggs Type Index

If you don’t want to take the test but want to see all the types, just scroll to the bottom and submit the form without filling anything out, then click “View all personality types here.”

For the record, I’m an INFP/INTP. I’m evenly split between thinking and feeling, but I have pretty strong preferences for the rest of the temperments.

If you want to more about the personality types than the brief descriptions I have available, check out The Personality Page. It’s got all kinds of information about each type, what the types are like in relationships, what types make good matches for other types, and what careers are most fitting for each type.

So, my few readers, what are your personality types?

I do this every few years, and it’s always fun. Here’s the soundtrack to my life.

“Mona Lisa” – Guster
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This song neatly sums up how I feel right now. I’ve come through a lot, emotionally, and I’ve emerged on the other side with some minor scars, ready to help anybody in the same spot I was in.

“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – Rolling Stones
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My life motto.

“First Love” – The Maccabees
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Not too familiar with the lyrics. Truth be told, I just like the song.

“Latter Days” – Over the Rhine
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I requested this one specifically when they played at our wedding. Not at all a wedding song, but one of my favorite songs. Sad and beautiful. I don’t think any scene with me set to this music would at all be fitting, but I like it, musically and lyrically, so it’s on here.

“Fly Me to the Moon” – Julie London
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I was lacking a touch of class. A certain je ne sais pas.

“No Rain” – Blind Melon
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Another song I could swear was about me.

“Rock and Roll High School” – The Ramones
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Flashback to high school!

“Butterflies and Hurricanes” – Muse
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For those who don’t know, I have a savior complex. I want to save the world, and I get mad when I can’t. This song captures that.

“Colorblind” – Counting Crows
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Some days I wake up numb. Not nearly as often any more, but I still have my days.

“Oxford Comma” – Vampire Weekend
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Good band, metaphor about an obscure construct of the English language. Perfect!

“A Lack of Color” – Deathcab for Cutie
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This is really a more depressing soundtrack than I thought it would be…

“Doing the Unstuck” – The Cure
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That’s better! The Cure know how to do a happy song well, on the rare occasion that they decide to write one. This is a song about letting go and having fun.

“Sideways” – Matt Caplan
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I think this is a song about an ADHD guy falling in love. Not entirely fitting, but close enough.

“Love Love Love” – The Mountain Goats
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Brilliant song by the Mountain Goats.

“Heroes” – The Wallflowers
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Let’s close with that savior complex, shall we?

You need to check out the Maccabees. No, not those Maccabees. These Maccabees:

http://www.myspace.com/themaccabees

Make sure to listen to “First Love.”

I’m alive and back in Kansas. I remembered I had my camera often enough to snap a few pictures, but until I get around to getting those off of my camera, these stories will have to suffice. And oh, do I have some stories. (There’s one that’s so incriminating that I can’t post it here. E-mail me if you want that one.) A lot of this has to do with the EGG.

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