Hi. How are you? Are you going to play TMI Tuesday?
(Just Jack this week.)

What kind of person are you?

1. Are you addicted to any social media (twitter, instagram, snapchat, etc.)?
Not really. I’ve drastically limited my Facebook usage over the last year or so. I don’t post to or even check Snapchat (though I do have it on my phone), and my Instagram account gets a new picture uploaded once in awhile at best. That leaves Twitter, which is the social medium I use the most, and while I do tweet regularly, I don’t tweet with the sort of frequency that constitutes an addiction.

2. You know a secret about someone. What do you do with that information?
a. I keep it to yourself
b. I tell my best friend
c. I wait until they hurt me and use it as ammunition
d. I tell everyone I can, I don’t mean to, I just cannot keep a secret
I’m likely to (a) keep it to myself. If it’s a potentially dangerous secret, i.e. the possibility of self-harm or harm to others, I’ll tell the proper authorities. But generally speaking I never reveal something that somebody has told to me in confidence, and I’m not one to throw a potentially embarrassing secret back in someone’s face when they’ve hurt me; depending on the nature of the hurt, I usually just cut the person off at that point.

3. You see someone breaking the rules at work, what do you do?
a. Pretend not to see what is going on
b. Inform upper management
c. Advise the co-worker that their actions are frowned upon and can lead to job loss
d. Tell everyone else in the office what you saw
Depends on the nature of the rule that’s being broken. Has the person taken a lunch that doesn’t belong to them from the lunchroom fridge, or otherwise deliberately done something that has inconvenienced another co-worker? In that case, yeah, I’ll probably let Human Resources know. Is the person wasting paperclips, taking too long a break, or otherwise inconveniencing our employers? If so, I’ll probably pretend I’m unaware, or at most advise the co-worker of the infraction (but probably not). I realize that the person’s actions would cost the company financially and might even result in cuts up to and including my job, but the truth is that if I were one to break such a rule I’d hope the person who caught me looked the other way. Unless my mandate includes specific verbiage about ratting out my fellow employees, I’m not going to go out of my way to make enemies amongst the rank-and-file.

4. A friend has a new hairstyle that is un-becoming, and not really age-appropriate on them. They ask you how they look. What is your reply?
a. You look just fine.
b. You look much better this way.
c. OMG, you look a bit ridiculous.
d. *Silence*
I’ll probably go with (a) or better still, ask the friend if they feel confident or happy with the hairstyle. I can’t really say that I give a fuck about what’s age-appropriate, or otherwise “proper”. Want to wear a bleached-blond mullet? Pigtails suitable for Pippi Longstocking cosplay? How about a high-top fade with “Fuck the Patriarchy” buzzed into it? You do you, my friend.

5. How helpful are you at home?
a. I come home and immediately veg out on the couch/bed.
b. I cook and clean a few times a week.
c. I am extremely helpful.
d. I do what I am asked and nothing more.
I’m somewhere between (b) and (c). I cook and clean more than a few times a week, but I’m hesitant to say “I am extremely helpful” because it’s my house and I’m not doing chores to assist anyone; I do them to make my home cleaner and more orderly. “I am extremely helpful” is something I might select if I still lived with my parents, providing I was in fact extremely helpful. Though when I did live with my parents, I probably was not.

Bonus: In your opinion, what is the best city in the world? Why?
I’ve always been partial toward San Francisco, California. I could talk at length about the fantastic local cuisine, the progressive politics, and the beautiful sights both man-made and otherwise. But suffice it to say that it’s home.

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