Carr Lucas

Male

Washingto, DC

United States

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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

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  • Crazy Jane

    Hi Carr. Yes, I am happy with where I live. That GP complex is slowly being demolished to make room for new waterfront development. I hope they leave the big gold silos, or whatever they're called. I think they are stunning.

    Oct 25, 2009

  • AndreaJill

    Thanks for commenting about my pictures. The pictures you are probably referring to were taken at Versailles in France. I have never actually visited St. Petersburg but from what I understand one can find extraordinary art and architecture there.

    Dec 5, 2009

  • d's girl

    Thanks for the lovely words & and friend invite from weeks ago, I think..... I am rarely on here, just pop in every now & then to run some word games & ck on my old friends in the Daily Grind.

    Mar 14, 2010