Below is my standard blog. I add to it from time to time. I have accumulated the pieces and parts below over the last year. Updated 8-22-09
I was raised in a lower middle class neighborhood (my playmates were the children of policemen, firemen, body shop workers, LPN’s, etc.). When I was 13 (8th grade) I was sent off to an exclusive English style boarding school. I learned to play golf there, but most of the kids rode polo horses in riding gear (felt hats and knee high boots) in the afternoon.
I have a lot of contradictions about me.
I score in the top 2% of the population on standardized IQ tests and in the top 10% on Achievement tests (if I were not so lazy I would score in the top 2%). I am an underachiever.
My High school GPA was 1.6 (13 C’s, 5 D’s, 1 F). My College GPA was 2.01 (This did not count grades from other colleges that I attended but did not graduate from). My Grad school GPA was 3.5. I did not take any notes in class. I spell at about a 3rd grade level.
I am socially inept (especially with women in social situations because of my shyness) I am an INTJ. INTJ (Introversion, iNtuition, Thinking, Judgment) is an abbreviation used in the publications of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
I did not start talking until after the age of 2. I have a hard time communicating via the typed word. I believe I am Dyslexic. I know I have Attention Deficit Disorder. I was an over achiever.
I played tournament level chess in college and I have a very high ability to visualize and mentally manipulate objects. I am left eye dominate (shoot a rifle and bow left handed), I kick with my left foot and I write right handed. I am now blind in my right eye and I miss my vision on the right side :-(
I am agnostic and nonjudgmental on almost everything. I am curious about almost everything. How do we know what we know? Why do we behave the way we do? Good and Bad! I am honest and ethical to a fault.
I find ways to enjoy almost every movie I see. Ones that stick out are Animal House, Bridge over the River Kwai, Old Man and the Sea, Rob Roy, A Beautiful Mind, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Highlander, Strips, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Star Wars, most James Bond films. I tear up at the sad parts, which is kind of embarrassing when you are 6'5"
My favorite works of fiction are Atlas Shrugged, Stranger in a Strange Land, and most of James Michener’s and Ray Bradberry’s novels
For non-fiction -- The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature, Delivered from Distraction: Get the Most Out of Life With Attention Deficit Disorder, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Emotional Intelligence, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease, On Intelligence, The God Delusion, Freakonomics, The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, Outliers, Simplexity, Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking, On Being Certain
I really loved your profile. And by the age we are in now, we all have Attention Deficit Disorder. So, you are saying you are a Dyslexic. I found 1 letter missing on the entire page, no misspellings. It does not look like you are Dyslexic.
how do you feel about kurt vonegut jr? trout fishing in america and in watermelon sugar to name a couple. for one who seem to be very well read i can not imagine you being an underachiever. was a beautiful mind about the guy who was schizoprenic (a true story) and his whole life was unreal untul , sadly they cured him,? i think we may have a bit in common drop a line sometime , sue
my typing is awful as you will see and i also jsut kinda lurk trying to figure it all out hey whay about a beautiful mind - was i thinking of thee right movie? i think yu look and sound interesting do you have a good (odd like mine)sense of humor? maybe we can talk again sometime see ya, sue
I am refering to Douglas Adams, and a phrase from his book:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. " In the first novel and radio series, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Unfortunately, The Ultimate Question itself is unknown."
I'm not quite ready to accept any new men friends at this time whom I've had not prior TBD experience with. This is not to say that I am denying your kind request. I would just like to think about it for a while.
I see you have several more friends. Can't imagine why anyone would turn you down. I am new at this and don't even read profiles. Where are you from? I live in Marietta, GA, outside of Atlanta.
Alla
Welcome!
Jul 9, 2009
sue
Jul 12, 2009
sue
Jul 13, 2009
Tina
Jul 29, 2009
Dazzling Zoomer Gal Diana
I'm thinking. I'll get back to you soon. Don't leave yet. /;->
Aug 20, 2009
Dazzling Zoomer Gal Diana
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. " In the first novel and radio series, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Unfortunately, The Ultimate Question itself is unknown."
I'm not quite ready to accept any new men friends at this time whom I've had not prior TBD experience with. This is not to say that I am denying your kind request. I would just like to think about it for a while.
Aug 22, 2009
Mary Kauffman
Aug 29, 2009
Tina
Aug 30, 2009
Tina
Aug 30, 2009
Mary Kauffman
Sep 7, 2009