Thoughts on: Stupid Retailers

The Internet discovered that retailer JC Penney was selling a girls' shirt emblazoned with, "I'm too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me."

Really? REALLY?

My thoughts are pretty much the same as everyone else on the Internet. But I'm mostly wondering what was JC Penney thinking?!?

Thoughts on: Happy Extroverts

I'm an introvert. I'm a PROUD introvert. I embrace it; I own it.

I'm also, admittedly, not the happiest person on the planet. Don't get me wrong! I'm by no means depressed or sad, as a rule. Pessimistic, yes. Maybe that's a better way to put it.

In any event, the fact that I find happiness elusive and fleeting made me very interested in this post by Sophia Dembling to The Introvert's Corner, "Is Hyperbole Really Happiness?" Basically, new research and clinical observations show that when given choice based on scales, extroverts are more likely to select the extremes. For example, when asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 5, extroverts will select 1 or 5; when asked to choose between hot and sweltering, extroverts pick sweltering.

Is this because extroverts really feel in extremes? Or is this because extroverts--by nature--crave stimulation, which extremes may offer? I don't know. What I do know is that I never choose extremes when rating on scales. Between 1 and 10, my go-to responses are 3 and 7.