my donuts are more metal than your donuts!!!

Dude! Somebody brought Hook-Em-Horns-shaped donut-bearclaw-THINGS into the office. They're little hands, throwing the devil horns!

Metal!

I want two-fingered salute donuts now...

ETA: MY GOD! I flipped it over and it's got all the fingers! Thumb folded over middle and ring fingers! Squeeeeeeee!

Blessed are the oo-shiny, for they shall be easily amused.

casting aspersions

Your EQ Score is 28 [Empathy Quotient]
0-32: You have a lower than average ability for understanding how other people feel and responding appropriately. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20. On average, most women score about 47 and most men about 42.

Your SQ Score is 44 [Systemising Quotient]
40-50: You have an above average ability for analysing and exploring a system. On average women score about 24 and men score about 30. Most people with Asperger Syndrome or high functioning autism score between 40-50.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/page/0,12983,937443,00.html

Shunting aside the difficulty of accurately self-judging yourself in these sorts of tests - though I did try to answer honestly, was actually proud of myself for fessing up to some of my more emotional moments - it's an interesting experiment. Timely, too, hee. Over the last week or so, I've had this sort of nebulous philosophy floating around in my head, involving conversations I've had about INTPs and our apparent similarity to Asperger Syndrome sufferers, and relating to my own haunting conviction that there are things in my head that I can't express. Not that I feel the burning DRIVE to express these things, of course. Thoughts in my head are usually more than enough for me, hee, and I take any sense of obligation to share them as a good sign in terms of social development.

I'd like to start looking at arts and skills and proficiencies as languages. I'm already pretty content with my skills at expressing myself in vocabulary and folklore and metaphor and archetype - I know lots of words and stories that can help to niggle away at the inexpressable. "Farouche," I can say, which means fey and fierce, or "Oya," or tell you, "I carry that INTP profile in my head like a St. Christopher medal." How much more effective, though, to be able to quote a line of Spanish poetry, or skirl out a melody or paint it or sketch it or build it? Approaching things at all kinds of different angles. The essence of multimedia, I suppose.

the hamster wheel in my head

I was going to make some kind of comment on what kind of a freak one would have to be to score over 60 on that Empathy quiz-thing, but apparently Val is that kind of freak, which ruins my rant. *grin* I don't think it's fair, though. I got slyly almost-diagnosed with autism for both my low AND my high scores, and Val gets nothing! A pat on the back and a well-done for being a touchy-feely. She should earn a nod toward, I dunno, histrionic personality disorder or something. *grumble grumble*

I'm sure I'll yammer a bit more about all this tomorrow - the whole testy thing threw me for a bit of a loop. I spent the bus-ride home pondering the silliness and hypocrisy of saying you 'strongly agree' to being 'upset at seeing an animal in pain,' unless you're a vegetarian. La la la.

*Katie beats her scrambling brain with a shovel*