I’m posting a quiz today. Sorry for not having a new entry on the blog, but I spent all weekend revising the Work In Progress and I’m too brain fried to write anything longer than a couple of sentences. Back to normal on Tuesday night, I promise.

You Are the Venetian

You are a true romantic, and you are enchanted with the idea of small European towns. You live life at a slower pace than most people. You savor every moment. You fall in love easily – whether it’s with the same person or different people every time. More than anything else, you love life. Your spirits can be lifted just by talking a stroll.

The other day, Blogthings had a new quiz up called Would You Have Been a Good Wife in the 1930s? I guessed immediately that the answer would be no. I’m not exactly the ideal of domesticity. The first question, though, stopped me cold.

You would ask your husband’s opinion before making a big decision or purchase.

I knew what I was “supposed” to answer to be a bad 1930s wife, but I had a dilemma. I believe that when you’re half of a couple, you should be asking for your spouse’s opinion about big decisions or purchases. Why wouldn’t you?

What? I get a job promotion that would require my moving to, say, Los Angeles and I’m not going to talk it over with my husband? Do I just start packing the bags and say, oh, yeah, I’m moving? Or what if I’m going to spend our money to buy a new car. Do I just show up one day and say, surprise! We’ve got a loan payment!

I also believe a husband should darn well be discussing big decisions or purchases with his wife as well. It’s a two-way street, baby.

Of course, this is what I grew up with. My parents discussed everything with each other and I think that’s the way it should be. How selfish and self-absorbed does someone have to be to think it’s reasonable to not discuss important things with the person they profess to love?

So the first question on the quiz was stupid beyond belief in my opinion. The rest of it was so-so. I used to love the Blogthings quizzes, but lately they’ve been fairly lame and they’ve even had misspelled words in some of their latest quizzes! Call me a nitpicker, but if you’re going to put a quiz out there to be done by hundreds, if not thousands, of people, the least they could do is run it past an editor.

You’re dying to know what my results are, right?

You Would Make a Horrible 1930′s Wife

You are way too non conformist, independent, and sassy to be an ideal retro wife. You may be so wild that you aren’t even considering marriage! Good thing we don’t live in the 1930s anymore!

Told you. Terrible 1930s wife.

I found this on Joely’s blog.

Your Score: Nemesis

0% Extroversion, 100% Intuition, 72% Emotiveness, 47% Perceptiveness

You are a normally quiet person with very strong convictions and a marked activist streak. You have a clearly defined sense of right and wrong, and you like seeing people punished for their transgressions. You are Nemesis, goddess of punishment. You are a champion for the defenseless, you love poetic justice and, if karmic retribution doesn’t have its say, then you’ll have yours. You are astute, rarely fooled, and idealistic.

Your defining characteristic is your internal and inflexible system of morals. Because of your highly intuitive nature, you possess the theoretical nature required to define those morals, but you sometimes lack the ability to verbalize and expound on them, especially on the more nuanced parts of your worldview. Regardless, you have strong instincts which often prove to be correct, and rather than preaching, you act on them. You don’t compromise — ever.

You can sometimes be a person of great internal stress. You don’t have double standards, and so you expect the same of yourself as you expect of others. You might find, sometimes, that you have just as hard of a time in living up to those expectations as the people around you. As a result, you are rarely at peace with yourself, but you’re also likely to think of this in a positive light — you’re always forcing yourself to improve, and you avoid making mistakes.

You tend to be a private person, and don’t like to talk much about those staunch morals of yours until, that is, they become violated. Once that happens, everyone is going to know exactly where you stand. You have a distaste of nihilism and intellectual relativism that will make you naturally compatible with scientists and certain kinds of philosophers, even if they don’t share your activist streak.

Famous People like you: Goethe, Voltaire, Susan B. Anthony, Robert Burns

Similar Personality Types: Prometheus, The Oracle, Hermes, Orpheus

Avoid: Icarus, Dionysus, Agamemnon, Atlas

You may or may not be able to get along with an Odysseus — it will depend on his/her upbringing.

I figured out that my post about calendars from this morning was boring. Sorry about that. When I’m tired, I lose perspective. Here’s a quiz, though, and hopefully, that will make up for it.

Your New Year’s Resolutions

1) Get a pet iguana 2) Eat more cotton candy 3) Travel to Alaska 4) Study abnormal psychology 5) Get in shape with surfing

Sorry, I can’t resist.

Your Christmas Song Is

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) And so this is xmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong You would gladly give up all of your material Christmas gifts… If it meant peace for a few more people