Jumping on the Bandwagon

Since I haven't posted anything for a week...



create your own visited states map

I was actually surprised to see how red my map was. I'm so very conscious of noteworthy places I haven't been like Hawaii (which my family visited without me this year) or New York (city or state) or Disneyworld (the only reason I have any desire to go to Florida) that I forget how many places I have been to. Legitimately, that is. I tried to only include states where I have actually spent the night, or visited on purpose, not just passing through. Changing planes in Atlanta on my way to and from Spain didn't count (but I made a visit to the University of Georgia in March, so the state's legit now). Kansas is kind of iffy - I don't know that I've ever actually stopped in Kansas, except for gas. But I have driven through it several times. Vermont and New Hampshire don't count because I only passed through on my way from Boston to Maine. I obviously haven't spent much time in the south, but I have the western states covered, and nice line of states roughly following the insterstate from Utah to the east coast.

Fun stuff.

And on a sidenote, I finally managed to administer the Peircian Personality Survey to my brother and sister (mostly because I had them as a captive audience while we were waiting in the airport for our plane yesterday). My sister came out orange, which was quite surprising because I'm pretty sure she's green, although not nearly as solidly green as I am. Possible explanations:
a) She didn't answer the questions particularly accurately.

b) The test is flawed (I know it's not perfect, but sending a green to orange?).

c) She is not really green. This is probably the most likely explanation, and I'm actually rethinking my initial placement of my sister. She definitely takes a green role in some cases, and I think I have a tendency to notice greenness. Of everyone in my family, she may be the most likely orange, although she definitely does not fit my mental picture of what an orange should be, and I still doubt the veracity of the test in her case. Maybe she's kind of reddish, maybe she's kind of yellowish, maybe she's just a highly composite green, maybe she flips orange...I don't know. I'll have to get her to take the test again once it's been revised.

My brother came out yellow. This does not surprise me at all. I had already pre-judged him to be green (I'm pretty sure we have an overabundance of green in my family), but he's a much, much yellower green than I am. I was actually hoping he'd turn up yellow on the test just so I could affirm that I actually do know what I'm talking about when it comes to triangles, at least to some extent.

Unfortunately, even though I got them to take the test, I have yet to convert anyone in my family to Peirce :)