Bored at work, so I'm down to taking personality quizzes. Here is the result of the latest one I've taken.

Scumbag- ENFP
(53% Extraversion, 80% Intuition, 46% Thinking, 46% Judging)
I have a feeling you're not going to like this much. Do I care? No. How do I know? It's because you hate criticism. You love to be loved and you'll do anything to be accepted.

Unfortunately for you, I can see right through your insincere compliments and over-the-top greetings. No matter what you do, I'll always hate you for what you are. An arrogant, unstable, overly enthusiastic scumbag.

I bet you're pretty proud of your accomplishments, huh? You seem to achieve at whatever you put your little mind too. Trust me. Nobody likes the person who is good at everything. NOBODY LIKES YOU.

This might also have something to do with the fact that you're a cheating machine. You're just not the type of person to make long-term commitments. You enjoy seeing "what could be", rather than being satisfied with "what is." This, of course, means you often leave others in the dust while you seek out another life.

Well, at least you're not the one left in the dust.

Unfortunately, when you're the one lying in the gutter with a bloody knife in your back, you might think differently.No surprise, eh?

No surprise there, eh?

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I don't know what the fuck is going on, but I'm really fucking depressed today. Is it my job? Not likely as I generally enjoy what I do. Is it the weather? Also not likely (though possible) since I have always claimed to prefer the Winter/Fall over Summer/Spring. Have I not being as social as I should/could be? I've seen more of my friends in the past month than I have in the six months prior to moving. In addition, I've joined a basketball league and a bowling club.

I just don't know. I wish I could pinpoint the problem so I could resolve it. I find this very irritating, which ironically enough, probably adds to the depression.

I ordered pizza for Thanksgiving. Fuck my family.

Things that currently make me happy:

20-25 minute commute to work
Coconut coffee at Dunkin' Donuts
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (game)
T-bone steak purchased Select Cut's butcher
The Walking Dead (comic)
Sriracha
Going to see Naked Raygun live (past tense)
Hopeful plans to see current crush
New bamboo laundry thingy
Heroes (tv show)
Lateral promotions at work (beats no promotion!)
This American Life weekly podcast (New!)

Today I officially signed my lease and paid my security deposit & first month's rent. My new landlord requested cash, so I dropped 15 Benjamins on him. He thanked me for paying with large bills. That was the most moeny I've held in my hand since I paid cash for a muscle car I stupidly bought when I was 18.

I had originally been holding back about a grand to furnish my new joint (Target & Ikea), but I've gotten so many offers from all my homies for stuff that I think can buy a fucking HDTV with the money saved and maybe even buy a Wii when it comes out too. I don't really know much about HDTVs though, but I know I don't really need anything larger than 30 inches and it doesn't necessarily need to be a flat-screen either.

I'm really, REALLY excited about having a 20-25 minute commute to work.

The apartment itself is slightly larger than my old studio in Uptown. If I can manage to "section" off the room like I did with my old studio, it will turn out pretty nice.

I'm also pretty happy to be able to hang out a lot more with both Sen and Dika. Both are friends that I highly value, yet have not been able to hang out with for various stupid reasons. Sen will practically be my neighbor and D will be a LOT closer. Plus my work is about two blocks from her bike shop. I gotta go visit her and see if she can get me a cheap bike to ride to work.

I was sitting in a Starbucks a block down from my place waiting for a friend to meet me. Enjoying the free samples they keep bringing around. A heroin addict chick caused a big scene and the cops were called. They arrived here like 30 minutes after she left and looked all forlorn when they were told she had already took off. I was amused by that.

Friend, Family, and Enemies:

Stop!  Don't throw that out!

Iam moving.  From my decent apartment in Joliet with my girlfriend to mynew girlfriend-free craphole homebase in Lincoln Park.  I need STUFF. Any sort of stuff will do. 

So don't throw that trash out!  You know the saying...

One man's trash is Spencer's TREASURE.

Seriously though, I could really use crap like end tables, tv stand, bookcases, and large sacks of non-denominational cash.

Thanks!

Your pal,
Spencer Dylan Smith

Been a long time El-Jay.  Can't say I've missed you, you bastard.

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Recently Viewed Movies:
Man in the Glass Booth
Crazy fucking movie from the 70's.  An apparent holocaust survivor makes good in NYC as a real estate tycoon.  Abducted and arrested by the Israeli po-po as a Nazi war criminal.  Hilarity and J.C. references abound.  O'Henry ending.

Beerfest
Ridiculously hilarious movie about guys drinking beer.  Featuring a fat guy named Landfill (Farva) who dies and is subsequently hilariously resurrected.  By the guys who did Super Troopers.  Not un-funny like Club Dread though.

Books Devoured:
Marrow
Silly and long-winded sci-fi book about a GIANT spaceship (think the planet Jupiter) populated with humans who have discovered the secret of immortality that traipse around the multiverse starting shit.

New Games
Yakuza
Pretty GTA-like game.  Think GTA combined with Street Fighter.  It is also one of the prettiest looking games I have ever played in my life.  Lots of gratuitous sex, violence, and swearing too, which is always kosher.

Alien Syndrome (Sega Ages Classic & Remake)
This game ate so many of my fucking quarters when I was a kid.  If you don't remember it, it was a top-down view view of a space commando/astronaut running around saving prisoners (encased in goo) while picking up cool weapon upgrades like flame throwers and land mines.  It sounds semi-sophisticated, but really this game is pretty fucking old.  After a while a doomsday clock would count down and you'd have to make it to the end of the level or blow up.  The best thing about this game was the co-op play. 

Other Goings-On
My consulting firm now has me at the company that provides the outsourced IT for the Chicago Public School systems installing a new Help Desk application system-wide and analyzing/improving metrics.  It's a nightmare.  I hate it.  I sort of miss the casino and my utter lack of real responsibilities therein.

To my friends that are teachers in the CPS system, go to fucking hell.  You are all idiots and so is the bloated beauracracy you work for.  I hope you all fucking burn in hell forever.  Seriously, is iT that fucking hard to find the yellow key (CHANGE/RESET YOUR PASSWORD HERE) icon on the CPS Mail site?  Jerks.

My consulting group has now assigned me to the company that handles the Chicago Public School Systems IT Department. Specifically the level 1 and level 2 departments. To say that everyone in the entire department is a tad underqualified is an insult to people that are underqualified for their jobs. Apparently, the senior management knows this, but they don't know any way to alleviate it, due mainly to one problem in particular that I will get into in a bit.

I'm only there to assess and then get together some sort of small-scale metrics system. My end will be easy. Getting the "employees" (in quotes because real employees do real work) to get on board is another matter. There is no level of professionalism whatsoever. Even the ones who I can tell know their shit are brought down grievously by the ones who don't. It's fucking awful. The team leads and supervisors are clearly not doing their jobs (it's not their fault since they are more less doing the jobs of everyone they supervise).

To make matters worse there is a certain office persona in the house (who happens to be the team lead's supervisor) who I HATE. I don't hate her personally. I hate her TYPE. That is, the old, fat, black woman who treats everyone like children in a stern, sickeningly motherly way. In meetings she makes jokes about "having pop quizes" about what was discussed in the meeting. Everyone goes silent after these comments (which happen often) and glance around, with eyes that wonder "is she fucking serious?"

At another meeting I attended a problem was "addressed" in a way. Except the "problem" is the big pink fucking elephant in the room everyone mysteriously ignores. It boils down to this company being a contract of the CPS (it's their biggest client). That means certain percentages of minorities must be hired to fill their positions. Don't get me wrong, I suppose this is a noble pursuit if it could work out. The problem is, it doesn't. Most of the Level I & II staff are just simply NOT qualified for their jobs. Not only that, but they are highly unproffessional and their behaviour is inappropriate for the workplace.

I'll probably go into specifics as the days wear on, but my first impression is really terrible.

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On a brighter note, I got a free hot pretzel on the way back to the train after work.

Now that I have wi-fi enabled Pocket PC, services like Newsland are coming in pretty handy. It's a bit like an RSS feed, except I just plug in interests and it finds articles I'd be interested in. Comes in handy when in the bathroom.

I remember when I was a kid we had these little stands that were kept in the kitchen. They were cheesy looking with gold folding legs and a faux wood (but metal) surface. I guess they were for eating while sitting on the couch, watching TV.

At any rate, I bring this up because I recently purchased an as-seen-on-TV Table Mate. I've been using it both to eat from and to drone away at my laptop while watching cartoons and Law & Order.

It's really helped me become less of a slob as well as keep my posture better when goofing off on the lappy. See? Not everything as-seen-on-TV is crap.