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Home is where the heart is

Take this cool quiz to find the cities in the U.S. best suited to your individual preferences. Here's my list, with the cities I have already checked out in bold:

Baltimore, Maryland
Honolulu, Hawaii
Little Rock, Arkansas
Hartford, Connecticut
Boston, Massachusetts
Providence, Rhode Island
New Haven, Connecticut
Portland, Oregon
Las Vegas, Nevada
Charleston, West Virginia
Frederick, Maryland
San Francisco, California
San Jose, California
San Diego, California
Washington, District of Columbia
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Worcester, Massachusetts
Orange County, California
Oakland, California
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana
Alexandria, Louisiana

Not sure how Boston and Worcester both got on there, considering that I love the former and loathe the latter... But of the other cities I've visited on the list, I have to say I concur. Outside of the U.S., I could see myself living in London and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Noo Yawk

It's official - I will be spending September and October in the fair city of New York, first in the Bronx at Weiler Hospital, and then in Manhattan at Beth Israel. I am excited and apprehensive, the same way you become anxious about dumb details like where will I eat lunch? who will I hang out with? what if I can't figure out the subway system? The crazy part is, I'm not that anxious about the actual rotations themselves. At the risk of sounding pompous, that's the easy part - simply because it's the most predictable. There are certain unversalities in the practice of medicine, and especially in Ob/Gyn, that one can rely on. So I bite my nails down to the cuticle worrying about being well-liked and not looking like a tourist. It will also be hard to be in NYC in the midst of MLB play-off madness... I will go armed with my Red Sox hat to ward off evil!

In unrelated news, my friend Amy (who happens to live in Brooklyn, so it's kind of related) has resumed her blogging habit, which is now displayed in my list of links on the right. And speaking of the Web, I recently rediscovered The Political Compass, which I remember doing in college. It does change with the times, so the questions are very relevant. Despite that, I continue to fall in the same quadrant that I belonged to in college: Libertarian left. I coulda told you that.

City mice unite!

You Belong in Paris

Stylish and expressive, you were meant for Paris. The art, the fashion, the wine! Whether you're enjoying the cafe life or a beautiful park... You'll love living in the most chic place on earth.

What City Do You Belong In?

Definition quiz

From time to time I will post a fun quiz that I have stumbled upon in my idle hours of procrastination-driven Web surfing. If you take the quiz, tell me the result!

Viveka -- [noun]: An immortal 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Personality-palooza

You know how sometimes the same topic or idea keeps popping up everywhere you go in a freaky coincidental way? My friend Marisa and I have been wasting time at work filling out stupid online personality quizzes. We're also people who love going to the doctor because we get to answer questions about ourselves the whole time. If you know either of us, then you understand why this is fun. :-)

Then today my friend Amanda emailed me lots of information about personality types! Earlier this week, Marisa and I did a quiz about personality disorders. These are fascinating because they can only be diagnosed once a person is 18 years of age, implying that our personalities are supposedly fully formed by then. This seems a bit arbitrary to me because I have interacted with lots of little kids (infants, even) who definitely have highly developed personalities, and I doubt they will change drastically by the time they are 18 years old. That being said, personality is understood as the overall manner in which we interact with our environment and other people which does fluctuate as we grow up. Anyone who's been through high school can attest that those four years are fairly hardcore in terms of personal growth. People who have disordered personalities have a dysfunctional way of interacting and responding to events. It's also possible to have a 'trait' and not a full-blown disorder. The beauty of these disorders is that they are usually ego-syntonic, that is to say that the person does not perceive anything troublesome about the way they interact with the world. Try having a conversation with a narcissist. Fun times.

A more functional way of classifying personality is with the Myers-Briggs personality type (or Jung-Myers-Briggs, depending on who you ask). According to this typology, all people can be classified using four criteria: extroversion/introversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, judging/perceiving. There are 16 possible permutations within these four categories. This typology is somehow related to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (anyone know more about this? please chime in). Both of these tools are very commonly used to help people with career and job decisions, as well as questions of compatibility with a life partner. Bottom line, I love answering questions about myself, as stated earlier. It's the Leo in me... astrology being another of my less scientific ways of understanding myself.

According to Myers-Briggs, I am an ENFJ (extraverted, intuitive, feeling, judging), also known as the Teacher Idealist by the Keirsey sorter. Apparently I am among only 2-3% of people and am quite charismatic. I share the same personality type as Mikhail Gorbachev. Make of that what you will.

If you take these quizzes, do share your results and thoughts about how accurate or not you think these things are.