well crap...i think this new bonus system we're implementing at work is gonna suck major ass...it appears that the irs will withhold 27% of the amount of the bonus...major suckage...i mean, is it really all that much of a bonus if we know we're getting 150 bucks a quarter, minimum? why not just give each of us a quarter raise and then make year-end bonuses out of the money that's left over?

maybe neal's conspiracy theory is right - they're doing it this way so that they can hang onto the cash longer throughout the year....

Take the What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be? Quiz

the sales people at work all have cell phones, so when they come in to drop off their ads, we hear a multitude of cell phones...they're all different...lots of cheezy ring tones and goofy shit...

well, i've succumbed to the pressure and put a new ringtone on my cell phone...

'twas a tough choice...i had narrowed it down to:

The Flintstones Theme

The Muppet Show Theme

Girlfriend In A Coma (that great song by the Smiths - but i dunno, it just seemed a little too wrong)

It's The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine (this one from rem's just a bit TOO relevant these days, as we wait for WWIII)

Crazy (ya s'pose that spinning noise is patsy cline in her grave? wow, she's really a star now, she's got a cell phone ringtone!!)

and one more...the one i settled on...

the theme music to JEOPARDY!

now i can annoy them as much as they annoy me...err, naah, i bet i can't reach that level of annoyance...but it'll be fun to try....

february's single women's dinner's gonna be at Ruthellens - looking forward to it, haven't been there in ages...

thursday's dinner at the rathskeller was good, despite a poor turnout (probably due to the crappy weather)...t'was just three of us, but i almost like the smaller crowds so you can get to know people a little better...the food was great - i had the jaegerschnitzel...the black forest cake for dessert was good as well, tho i managed to drop a bite of it from my fork down my shirt!! ugh, always the clumsy one...

woo hoo - i got a new pair of chucks today!!!

Dysfunctional Family Circus - gotta love it!

happy birthday, internet!

woo hoo! 2003! thank god 2002's over - i must say, it sucked. could've been worse, but coulda been a whole lot better too...

went to a party at angela's - rang in the new year with her and dale and greg and diana and a bunch of other people...it was very nice...

resolutions? maybe dropping a couple hundred pounds (yeah right). seriously now...well, i'm working on getting my finances in order. that's a very realistic goal - get rid of some of this credit card debt, get all the old medical bills paid off - woo hoo!

the single women's dinner is at the rathskeller on thursday - yummy! haven't been before, but a look at the menu makes me hungry!

amazing the spiffy stuff you can find online with google...mom and i were discussing the poem in the new chevy tahoe commercial, performed by james garner..."nobody knows it but me" sounds like a classic - but guess what, it isn't! it was copy dreamt up by some ad exec...found this out in an article at bayarea.com by joan morris - she's got an interesting column, answering questions to all that random crap that ya wonder about, but gets stuck in the crevices of your brain and forgotten...

i am SOOOOO glad i didn't go to work today...holiday schedule means i worked friday instead of today...so i decided to go shopping and go see catch me if you can - alas, i didn't get to see the movie cuz i got a flat tire and had to wait forever to get the damn spare put on...guess i'll be doin a little tire shopping before work tomorrow...at least it was a flat in the middle of the meijer parking lot and not out in the middle of 465 on my way to work...

mom and i just finished watching birthday girl - strange movie...guess i agree with roger ebert's review - it was just not quite right...nicole kidman was interesting as a mail order bride, but ben chaplin needs to go back to roles like his in the truth about cats & dogs - sweet guy with the brit accent...

here's the t-shirt i got my kid sister for xmas - do ya suppose it encourages lesbianism? *8-)

Happy White Trash Christmas, Y'All!

heh heh heh...this is awfully tempting...
http://howandwhy.org/marquee.html

merry xmas! woo hoo!

my latest read: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich - very interesting...a bunch of math geeks took to counting cards while playing blackjack...i find it interesting to read books like this (the scrabble book is another good example) filled with geeks that find their magical calling...

also read Bill Maher's latest book - When you ride alone you ride with bin Laden : what the government should be telling us to help fight the War on Terrorism - don't agree with everything he says, but he does make some very interesting points...

	You are Fozzie! Wokka Wokka! You love to make lame jokes. Your sense of humor might be a bit off, but you're a great friend and can always be counted on..
Take the What Muppet Are You? Quiz!

ruh roh...i picked a grand time to shout "BOOBIES!" here in the office - apparently Carol (the sales chick on the other side of our cube farm) has a client in with her now...it got DEAD quiet over there in the sales department...it's all debbies fault anyways, she's the one sending pix of nekkid chicks...

heh heh heh - put new wallpaper on my desktop here at work today - Fruitcake!

amusing article...

interesting..."scientists have pinpointed a part of the brain that leaves people unable to stop humming annoying tunes"..."American researchers have found an area behind the forehead that processes music and helps retrieve memories. They said the rostromedial prefrontal cortex was where information about the harmonic relationships of music are stored. The region is also connected to the temporal lobe, which is involved in more basic sound processing." - so is the fact that i have Temporal Lobe Epilepsy related to the fact that I can't get "Who Let The Dogs Out?" out of my goddamned head whenever Carol gets out her little stuffed doggie that sings the damned song?!?!?

an update to the evil wal-mart story i posted a while back...

i sent em an email and told them i wasn't spending ANY money at their evil store this xmas...and the more i think about it, the more i realize that needs to extend beyond the holidays - i can get stuff i need at places that don't treat people like crap and care only about the bottom line, and it probably wouldn't save me all that much money anyways...

so anyways, they sent me a reply back:

From: "CUSTOMER REPLIES: WM Stores & Sam's Clubs"
To: "'lorib@crapmail.com'"
Subject: RE: LtrToPres# 000000001303146: Subject: SUGGESTIONS/FEEDBACK
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:03:55 -0800

We apologize for any misunderstanding concerning the Toys for Tots collection box in our store. This is an isolated situation where the box was located inside the store and was being used as a trash receptacle. There was a very small amount of items in the box and had not been picked up. To rectify the issue, the store removed the trash, the few items in the box, and provided $425 in toys. This was in addition to the $1,000 cash grant provided to the Toy for Tots organization.

Thank you,
Customer Relations

yeah, okay.

now i need to find a new place to get the oil changed in my car...

hee hee hee....time for a joke (or two):

Two couples who have been friends for years decide to spend the weekend at a fancy hotel. When they get there, one of the husbands suggests they get a little wild and swap partners.
After two hours of solid sex by the fireside, the man turns to his new partner and says, “Wow! This is the best sex I’ve had in years.”
“Yeah,” his new companion agrees.
“I wonder how the girls are doing.”

A woman is in her doctor’s office and suddenly shouts, “Doctor, kiss me!”
The doctor says, “I’m sorry, it’s against my code of ethics to kiss you.”
Five minutes later the woman again shouts, “Doctor, please kiss me!”
Again he refuses and says, “As a doctor, I simply cannot kiss you.”
Finally, after another five minutes, the woman pleads with the doctor again, “Please, please kiss me, just once!”
“Look,” he says, “I’m sorry. I cannot kiss you. In fact, I probably shouldn’t even be humping you.”

oh, the things you can do with Jell-O!

hrmm....i already bought some pre-made ones, but it'd be cool to make my own christmas crackers...

so, we're having a "christmas around the world" pitch-in at work...i'm thinking of making something norwegian...er, what the hell to make?

i've googled around, looking for recipes, and have found a few sites to check out at a later time:

http://www.sofn.com/norwegianculture/recipes/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/infonorway/kitchen/recipes/index.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/recipe.html

interesting article on photoblogs - perhaps if/when i upgrade to Blogger Pro/Blogspot Plus (or just get my own damned URL) i'll integrate more photos into my blog...

gotta love those amazon automated recommendations - ya look up Pat Robertson's Six Steps to Spiritual Revivaland get a recommendation to also purchase The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men - *rofl*....

(don't worry, i'm not buying men's anal sex books - i read an article about this thang here...)

i also like the customer suggestion for an accompanying purchase to Now That's What I Call Music! 11 - the cd compilation of current top 40 type music...someone's suggested Super Leight Pre-Shaped Foam Ear Plugs to accompany that cd purchase...

oh god, can i pleeeeeeeeeeeze be her fluffer?

amusing - an internet spammer gets pissed when anti-spammers, using the snail mail address of the guy's new home, sign him up for tons of unwanted mail...

so this guy in michigan decides to use FedEx and their minute by minute tracking to see where a letter to Santa Claus would end up...check it out here...

i love this comment, posted to fark:

"Most relgious (sic) people that I know are "Cafeterians". They pick and choose the parts of the Bible that they like, and ignore the rest."

pooky's amazon wishlist

if you weren't convinced already - more proof of just how evil the wal-mart corporation is...

Congratulations, you're syphilis!

Transmitted by direct contact with one of your infections (usually through unprotected sex), you're one nasty STD! In your initial stages, you cause sores, usually on the genitals or in the rectum, but that's only the delicious beginning. Later on, you'll cause a rash, and then slip away ... but you won't be gone. No no, my friend. You're far too cunning.

You'll still pass yourself on to anyone the poor soul you've infected has sex with (anal, vaginal or oral), and you'll start to erode their muscles and nerves! In fact, you'll eventually lead, if left untreated, to malcoordination, blindness, paralysis, dementia and then death!

And that's not all - if you infect a pregnant women, you'll also be passed to their child! A single shot of penicillin will kill you, but shhhhh .. I won't tell anyone if you won't.



Take the Affliction Test Today!

Eleanor Roosevelt! Nice to see you.

A Roosevelt yourself, you married your fifth cousin Franklin; despite the obvious incestuous overtones, your six kids were happy and healthy.

When Franklin got elected, you became perhaps the most controversial first lady ever - you spoke out for the rights of women; for the rights of the poor; for world peace. You were even a member of a union while your husband was in office - and when he died, you were the head of the UN Commission on Human Rights.

All of which is pretty kick ass, but to top things off you had a hot and steamy relationship with the lesbian journalist Lorena Hickok, who was so madly in love with you that she halted her career for you. Unfortunately, you couldn't give up your public life that easily - leaving her heartbroken.

Bitch.



Which Famous Homosexual are you?

Hailing from sunny Transylvania, your first blood-related incident was when you stabbed a servant girl in the face with a pair of scissors for underperforming. Some of the red spray landed on your hands, and as you washed it off, you noticed that it left your skin fresh and young looking. From then on you were convinced that the blood of young girls was the secret to eternal youth.

Rather than killing girls outright by stabbing them or slitting their throats, you enjoy torturing them for weeks on end by pricking them with needles or prodding with sharp spikes - all to bathe in their blood. You've killed over six hundred women, all without raising a peep from the authorities.


Which Evil Criminal are You?

a-ha! my fave 80's norwegian musicians make the news once again...well, one of 'em did - Mags, the cutie keyboard player...*swoon*

so, if i'm reading in a magazine or online about a book that sounds interesting, i'll reserve it on the indy public library's website - every once in a while, everything comes in all at once - i'm deluged with books right now and they all have to be returned asap!!

here's a glimpse at some of what i've gotten:

I rant, therefore I am - Dennis Miller - luckily, this was a book on CD, so i burned it for listening later...

The carbohydrate addict's cookbook : 250 all-new low-carb recipes that will cut your cravings and keep you slim for life - Richard F. Heller - haven't had a chance to look at this one...don't really care about the slim for life part, it's the carb addict part that i relate to - definitely a problem for a diabetic...

The F word : how to survive your family - Louie Anderson - i'm about halfway through this one...damn, louie's gettin pretty philosophical...

The Sopranos on the couch : analyzing television's greatest series - Maurice Yacowar - damn, and here i just thought the Sopranos was just a good mobster show...apparently each episode is packed with layers and layers of meaning...interesting, but i didn't finish the book - not my cup o tea...

What's my line? : The inside history of tv's most famous panel show - Gilbert Fates - thought this one would be interesting after reading "Backstage With the Original Hollywood Square" by Peter Marshall, a b-day gift from mom...i thought wrong, the what's my line book was rather bland...what i read of it, at least...

Shop, save, and share - Ellie Kay - hell, i could've written this book (without the religious references, that is)...guess it would be useful for someone that doesn't know the right way to use coupons, but i've got that system down...

The complete Tightwad gazette : promoting thrift as a viable alternative lifestyle - Amy Dacyczyn, a.k.a. The Frugal Zealot - interesting, but didn't really learn anything new here....

Feng shui at work : arranging your office space for peak-performance and maximum profit - Kirsten Lagatree - haven't cracked this one open yet, but i know it's desperately needed - a good vibe in the workplace would be spiffy...

LOTD = laugh of the day...

here's today's...

http://www.jesus.com/merchandise/plates.html

Which Harry Potter Candy are you?
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Which Sesame Street Muppet's Dark Secret Are You?
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Make your own Fairy Tale at fuali.com

Take the test, by Emily.

add this to the xmas list - a multimedia refrigerator! the damned thing has TV, internet, a digital camera, and - oh yeah - it'll keep your food cold too...

interesting - burger king has a disclaimer at the bottom of their website that reads "Burger King Corporation makes no claim that the BK VEGGIE™ Burger or any other of its products meets the requirements of a vegan or vegetarian diet."

My Music Personality

must make pilgrimage to see the Leg Lamp!!!! ahhh..."the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window"...hell, maybe i should just buy one of my own...

ya know, i just LOVE the Internet Anagram Server - it's far too entertaining! ya type in a few words, it'll give ya anagrams...

so, Lori Beth yields (amongst other things):

RIBLET HO
THROB LIE
LIE BROTH
BRIT HOLE
LITHE ORB

Turkey day '02 was a success...went to Aunt Sherry's for dinner with Mom...woulda been cool to have Pooky there, but he was with Codi and her family.

sheesh there was a TON of food...yummy! er, i think i might have misplaced my blood sugar monitor...yeah, that's it, i can't find it...*8-)

after stuffing ourselves full o food, we made some christmas ornaments...i still have paint on my hands from helping Tre make his ornament - of course he's most attracted to doing whatever is messiest...but now the kids will have a little memento of thanksgiving '02...

i searched through the ads in the paper yesterday - there's a few good deals out there, but nothing that's making me go to the store 2 hours early to get something extra cheap...dunno if i'll actually be observing Buy Nothing Day, but it's definitely more likely than in years past...

Happy Thanksgiving!

it was 24 years ago today that Harvey Milk was assassinated by Dan White in San Francisco...

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." - Harvey Milk, 9 days before his assassination.

Which HP Kid Are You?

OHMYGOD! (literally - heh heh) - it's Buddy Christ!!

Ya know what pisses me off? This medical reimbursement account thang that says if you overestimate what you're gonna spend in a year, they keep the extra that they've deducted from your paycheck! It's that time o year again, to decide how much they're gonna get out of me each paycheck - adding up my list of prescriptions is a bit depressing - we're talking close to 150 bucks a month! But who knows what i'll be taking med-wise in 3 months...6 months...and so on...so i conservatively estimated, based on my current meds, and will deduct $50 a pay period...if i do the vagus nerve stimulator thang and cut back on the meds, i'll probably still manage to rack up plenty of bills...why Manley should get to keep the money i might not spend is beyond me tho...

they're encouraging us at work to make our little cubes more personal - wonder if i'd get fired for putting up this calendar...*8-)

HOW TO . . . TALK GOOD
10 Useful Hints for Everyday Grammar

usually trapped at work on sunday nights, so i don't get to watch tv then...i'd forgotten how much i missed queer as folk - the damned thing's gonna be in reruns till march '03!!! and they're not releasing season 2 on dvd till freakin february...why do the cable channels do this shit?!? waiting over a year for the sopranos sucked too...yeah, i understand perhaps fewer episodes as a good trade-off for the quality they put into these shows, but i can't imagine being off the air for such long periods of time can help things....oh well, at least we've got queer duck online to keep us entertained...

woo hoo, finally got the pix developed from the cowboy junkies show / the party at angela's / the ani difranco concert...

here's a pic of me with margo timmons, lead singer for the cowboy junkies...man that woman can melt by boxer shorts!!! check their tour diary for their perception of the evening of october 13 here in indianapolis

these pics weren't taken with my digital camera, but rather with a disposable i had sitting in the car...dunno why, but the kodak picture CD that this image came from looks a hell of a lot worse than the actual pictures themselves...oh well...i'll photoshop em later...

*grin*

What Classic Pin-up Are You? by Medox

What Kind of Coffee are You? by Medox



*grin* not bad for a non-coffee-drinker....

Lesbians win!

Celebrity or Lookalike?

the neurologist once again has brought up the option of a Vagus Nerve Stimulator as a way to control my seizures. with my insurance changing at the first of the year, i suppose it's time to think about it some more...the idea of being able to be completely off seizure meds is awfully tempting, that's for sure...but will it work for me? dave's website had lots of info from a patient's point of view...yeah, it's an invasive procedure, but it's better than going in and taking out a big chunk o brain...

well, at least i've got some time to think about it...

once again the conversation turns weird at work...current topic - Camel Toes...

the indy star gave a positive review to ani difranco's show last nite...

so, pooky and i did the family bondage thang and went to see ani difranco last night at the egyptian room...good show, considering ani had broken her foot and spent the evening sitting down - the show was a bit shorter than usual, but she still managed to pack the same punch...Hamell On Trial was her opening act - pretty good, i'll hafta look into his stuff...

ani closed the show with a poem, self evident...pretty powerful shit...

managed to get some halfway decent pix with the digital cam - surprising considering how far from the stage we were...

i guess i'm turning into an old fuddy-duddy - the general admission thing sucks ass - i would've much preferred regular seats...

more later, now i hafta get ready for work - bleargh!

fatwallet.com has forums with lots and lots of freebies in em...now i'm expecting lots of goodies to come via us postal service!

pooky sent me this link - check out blackpeopleloveus.com

adam got his url (djadamjay.com) though http://hostica.com/ - maybe someday i'll get my own website...*8-)

Bi-Partisan Unity - cute...

all you never wanted to know about the oscar meyer weinermobile...

Take the What
animal best portrays your sexual appetite?? Quiz

ya know, there's a "what kind of _________ are you?" survey for everything...

Which Firearm are you? brought to you byStan Ryker

I'M 48.5% X-rated. HOW HORNY ARE YOU?

I'm a Gin & Tonic, discover your ALcoHoLiC personality!

not that celebrity opinions should carry any special weight, but Sean Penn's open letter to George W. Bush is good - he put his money where his mouth is by spending 56 grand to place it in a 3/4 page ad in the washington post...

from Bob & Tom's Joke of the Day page:

A man follows a woman with a parrot out of a movie theater. He stops her and says, "I'm sorry to bother you, but I couldn't help but notice that your bird seemed to understand the movie. He cried at the right spots, he was fidgeting in his seat during the boring parts and he laughed at jokes. Don't you find that unusual?"
"I do indeed," she answered. "He hated the book."


A carrot crosses the road and is hit by a car. He is rushed to the hospital, where he goes through hours of surgery.
After surgery the doctor comes into the carrot’s room and says “Well, I’ve got good news and bad news.”
The carrot says, “Give me the good news first, doc.”
The doctor says, “The good news is you’re gonna live.”
“And the bad news?” asks the carrot.
“The bad news is you're gonna be a vegetable for the rest of your life.“

ahhh, i just love TotalFark - it's got ALL of the links that are submitted, even those that don't get posted to fark.com - for instance: all you never wanted to know about farts...

here's the playboy playmate of the month when i was born - September 1972 - and if you wanna see a different month/year, click here...

Even Superman once worked in a team

Take the Cartoon Hero Quiz?.

if the evil earlham college is to get the money from me that they claim that i owe them, it'll be like this - in pennies.

i'm definitely gonna hafta check this out - women's ice hockey - the circle city sirens - strictly as a spectator of course...could be a really good event to take my kid sister to see...

$24,668.14 - that's twenty four thousand, six hundred sixty eight dollars and fourteen cents. that's the total of claims submitted to my health insurance company this year, not including trips to the therapist or shrink (dunno why they don't list that online)...

woah...that's a big chunk o change...

Men plan to collect, return AOL CDs

next saturday is the 2002 international rps championships - rps, you ask? Rock, Paper, Scissors! damn, too bad it's in toronto - it'd be cool to see - alas, i hafta be in town to see ani difranco next sunday...

'tis amazing where you can end up when you're googling - i ended up on a page for people addicted to lip balm - Lip Balm Anonymous - now i can't even remember what i was looking for...

*clever*


What fuzzy creature are you?

hrm, hafta check this out later - http://www.ifproject.com/

okay, yeah, a bit racist, but amusing nonetheless:





How BLACK are you?

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Does it work? that's the premise of this website, which has reviews of all the "as seen on tv" gizmos that you know are crap, but ya just hafta buy anyways...like the Perfect Pancake - dunno why, but i've wanted one ever since i saw the commercial the first 48,281 times...the thing sells for twenty bucks, but CVS had em on sale for $14.99 and i had a $15 gift card from 'em for transferring a prescription...so, since i didn't have any real financial investment in it, i decided to get it...have yet to try it, but the review doesn't give me much hope...a previous time i used another freebie gift card to get the quick chop, and i can say from my own personal experience that it's nothing like they show on tv and is totally worthless...figured it'd be great for chopping onions - so i tried it...first time, the onion got stuck in the blade. okay, so i'll cut the onion into quarters - still, it didn't chop very well, and that was after i'd cut it into small enough pieces to make it easy to chop - a few more cuts with the old-fashioned knife, and the damned thing woulda been chopped anyways!

don't forget to VOTE on tuesday!!

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." - Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

well, whaddaya know...apparently the human resources department at work is Denmark. definitely something rotten going on there...

stuff to read later, after i get a bit o' sleep...

http://www.thismodernworld.com/
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/
http://www.nowarblog.org/
http://michaelmoore.com/index.php

i just love molly ivins - she's good at putting into words the sort of things i think about politics - from a recent article:

My, what fun we are having this festive fall campaign season. Ads running coast to coast informing us that if the other guy wins the election, pestilence will fall upon the land, weevils will eat the corn, our children will be sacrificed to Baal, and we'll all be afflicted with piles. It makes me miss the warm, positive, upbeat, people-loving candidates of yesteryear. Like Richard Nixon.

Tough times for those of us who are just little rays of sunshine all the damn time. I was trying to think of a single area where the country appears to be headed in the right direction.

The economy? Flop. Health care? Disaster. Homeland security? The director of the CIA says we're about to be attacked again. Foreign policy? Even our allies are starting to hate us. The environment? Please.

Meanwhile, our only president continues to insist that we need to go bomb Iraq, as he so lucidly explained the other day, "for the sake of peace." We once had a war to end war, but we've never actually tried a war for peace before.

saw a couple of movies today - went and saw Punch-Drunk Love, the adam sandler movie that's not really an adam sandler movie, it's a paul thomas anderson (of boogie nights and magnolia fame) movie...weird, but good...i won't give it the rave review that roger ebert did, but it was enjoyable...

after Punch-Drunk Love, i made it a double feature and snuck into The Ring, which had just started...it was okay, but not as creepy as i expected it to be...

the previews before Punch-Drunk Love showed some good movies coming up...About Schmidt (with Jack Nicholson) and Catch Me If You Can (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, directed by Steven Spielberg)...

hrmmmm....the nonsense generator - isn't that all of the internet?

invasion of the goofy online tests!!







What's your claim to fame?

guess all the soda/pop/carbonated beverage companies are jumping on that put out a new drink bandwagon...7UP is putting out dnL, saying it's 7up flipped...it's caffeinated, colored, fruity tasting...are they trying to be a new mountain dew? i like the flipit logo, very cute - if you flip it upside down, it still reads flip it - ooooh!

doesn't look like they've got a diet version out yet, but perhaps in the near future....

i tried the diet vanilla coke a while back and was thoroughly unimpressed...

diet code red mountain dew totally rocks though! i go back & forth between it and regular diet dew as my fave drink...

not interested in the red fusion that dr. pepper's put out - can't stand dr. pepper...blech!

and there you have it - my views on pop...*8-)

You're loyal to your friends and family. You try not to let people know when you don't like them, because you try you best to treat everyone equally. You're not a leader, you tend to follow orders and respect those who tell you what to do. You're smart and a quick thinker. You take life as its handed to you, and try to make the best of it. You're constantly surrounded by friends and family, and you're a respectable person.