My poor dying computer

Grr. I just met another site I really want to get to, and I can't. Why? Because I broke Content Advisor, and it insists I can't see it because it's rated as having 'Mild Expletives'. Any time I try and use Word (even on its own just after a reboot) the poor thing feels like it's swimming through treacle, and it's just getting *silly*. Aivas runs a lot faster even tho it's got a less-good processer and has to wait for the HD to whirr up again every now and then. What this box *really* needs is a complete reformat and everything reinstalled... but that would just be *so* much work, and I'm not sure I can face it... then again, this is just getting *so* annoying.

Umm... right

Okay, I'm posting my answers to that quiz thing...

Your view on yourself
Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener; they'll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.

Not *quite* right. I tend to attempt to be a good listener, and apparently succeed quite a bit of the time, but I find it difficult to remember to hide things about other people that they don't want me to broadcast, let alone things about myself. There are of course some things that are kind of to do with other people or that the other person probably just plain doesn't want to know I don't go shouting about, but I don't deliberately set out to hide 'me'. Then again, if anyone finds out who this mysterious 'true self' of mine is, I'd be most obliged if they'd tell me, because I certainly don't know what she's like yet.

The type of girl/boyfriend you are looking for.
You are a true romantic. When you are in love, you will do anything and everything to keep your love true.

Which actually says nothing about the *type* this 'love' is meant to be... and having (thankfully) never been in love as far as I can see, I couldn't comment on the veracity of this.

Your readiness to commit to a relationship.
You are ready to commit as soon as you meet the right person. And you believe you will pretty much know as soon as you might that person.

Hmm. s/might/meet/, I think, for pedanticism value. Once this was true, but now I should *hope* I'm a little more cautious.

The seriousness of your love.
You like to flirt and behave seductively. The opposite sex finds this very attractive, and that's why you'll always have admirers hanging off your arms. But how serious are you about choosing someone to be in a relationship with?

I like to flirt and behave seductively? I'll always have admirers hanging off my arms? (falls off her chair spluttering helplessly) That's almost as good as those jobs the other one suggested for me...

Your views on education
You may not like to study but you have many practical ideas. You listen to your own instincts and tend to follow your heart, so you will probably end up with an unusual job.

I actually went back and worked out which question was allied to this one and saw what the other options gave for it, because it seemed so wrong... I certainly used to like to study, and I love reading academic stuff and talking about physics and maths, and I'd rather be logical than 'follow my instincts' given how unreliable they are, if I indeed have any. Then again, I'm certainly hoping for an unusual job - I want to be a lecturer at a university, or at least do research - basically, to stay in academia, which isn't really what this is saying. But I would *not* see an antique key...

The right job for you.
You have plenty of dream jobs but have little chance of doing any of them if you don't focus on something in particular. You need to choose something and go for it to be happy and achieve success.

Grr. Don't wanna focus. Focussing means that I don't put the full range of my abilities to good use, and I'm just plain not as good as plenty of people in individual fields. Then again I really have to, because like I am atm I'm not getting *anything* done/learnt. I used to blame this on having the attention span of Kiki on sucrose, but I *can* concentrate for long lengths of time on things that interest me, really concentrate to the exclusion of everything else (not always/usually not a good thing), it's really that I have a dreadfully low boredom threshold, which is just me being lazy and silly and selfish again. *sigh*

How do you view success?
You are afraid of failure and scared to have a go at the career you would like to have in case you don't succeed. Do not give up when you have not even started yet! Be courageous!

*hides in a corner* All perfectly true. (Lots of conversations about how I could always be a secretary if I wasn't good enough for other stuff, because I fear I'm unemployable outside of an office or an academic building...) But mweep, I'm a poor ickle Chessypig, I don't want to be courageous!

What are you most afraid of?
You are afraid of having no one to rely on in times of trouble. You don't ever want to be unable to take care of yourself. Independence is important to you.

Uh... true... if contradictory... the first bit says 'you really need people and are afraid of being without anyone to turn to' and the second part says 'you don't want to need people or need to turn to them'... which are both true for me... very true... *hides again*

Who is your true self?
Ooh, goody, someone going to answer this for once?
You are mature, reasonable, honest and give good advice. People ask for your comments on all sorts of different issues.

No, sometimes, yes, I hope so. Yes.

Sometimes you might find yourself in a dilemma when trapped with a problem, which your heart, rather than your head, needs to solve.

So far I've had no experiences to recommend this method of solving problems. I generally consider that I ought to let logic win *more* often rather than less...

Now is when I found out I haven't sorted out all my HTML tags properly...