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Yesterday afternoon I moved back to an upstairs office. A shared office, actually.

Pros:

1. Windows! Sunlight!
   
2. Conversation
3. I don't have to get up and walk here to get questions answered – I just ask.

Cons:

1. Must be a little more prudent in my musical selections – don't want to offend anyone.
2. Must be extremely prudent when farting!

Luckily it's lunch time and one of my office buddies is having some funky smelling soup, a fact that saved my behind (pun intended) when I let one slip before I realized what was going on.

Is it Thanksgiving yet?

I mentioned to Megan earlier tonight that I can't wait for election season to be over. I don't even watch commercials any more (Thank you DVR!) – I just fast-forward through them at at least 16x, and I'm sick and tired of negative campaigning.

Bob Casey this. Rick Santorum that. Swann. Rendell. Hillary is backing so-and-so. Bush is backing what's-his-name. Barack Obama. Yes, his name sounds phonetically close to Osama Bin Laden – it's been 1 day since some news anchor slipped up and said the wrong one, and I'm already tired of it!

Somehow Mark Foley being gay caused him to sexually harass minors – and more importantly, use government resources… computers you and I are paying for, to do so. And somehow being molested by a priest as a minor himself made him gay? The only things that matter – the only things that I as a taxpayer am concerned about – in his case are misuse of power, misuse of government resources, and the irresponsability of his peers; the Republicans who covered for him, and the Democrats who waited until it would hurt him most to expose it.

And today I find this?

I'm just so mentally tired from dealing with it all that I want to put an "out to lunch" sign over my eyes and not come back until Thanksgiving.

Of 2009.

So there's this World View quiz, that plots out your tendancy to agree with science vs. superstition, and progress vs. extermination on a 2-D graph; based on your answers to 23 questions. I don't really like how they use the term "extermination" – sounds a little leftist to me – but I didn't come up with it, I'm just passing it along.

For the record, I scored [spoiler]9/10 science, 10/10 progress – just one point shy (in science) of tieing Carl Sagan. And I think I was denied that point because I chose B ("they do work and are more than a placebo") for the magnet therapy and homeopathy question. I even looked up exactly what homeopathy was so that I could give a good answer, but  they both seem to be based on science to me and I guess it was counted as slightly superstitious. Perhaps "None of the above" would have been a more appropriate answer, since I don't feel strongly either way.[/spoiler]

I'm curious how you would score. I would be lying if I said I hadn't already thought about it and predicted what some of you would score based on how I think you view the world… that's just the way the human mind works.

So if you're not too chicken, take a few moments to take the quiz, and leave a comment with your score. I wonder how well I know your world view.

I also disagree with where they place George W. Bush – but they don't say whether each of these individuals has answered all of the questions in the quiz (or otherwise implied them via policy, as I would assume W has), or if they were just darts thrown in the dark.

How much can you tell from 23 questions, anyway? It's obviously not that comprehensive, but fun nonetheless.