I finally took Thom's personality test.  I am William Wallace.  =)

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is marshalling or situational organizing role that reaches the highest development in Fieldmarshals. As this kind of role is practiced some contingency organizing is necessary, so that the second suit of the Fieldmarshal's intellect is devising contingency plans. Structural and functional engineering, though practiced in some degree in the course of organizational operations, tend to be not nearly as well developed and are soon outstripped by the rapidly growing skills in organizing. But it must be said that any kind of strategic exercize tends to bring added strength to engineering as well as organizing skills.

As the organizing capabilities the Fieldmarshal increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their organizational efforts. So they tend to take up a directive role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to inform others.

Hardly more than two percent of the total population, the Fieldmarshals are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, Fieldmarshals simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that Fieldmarshals have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are -- to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble Supervisors in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but Fieldmarshals search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.

They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, Fieldmarshals more than any other type desire (and generally have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, at marshalling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize, however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the Fieldmarshal leader may need to turn to an Inventor or Architect to provide this kind of input.

Fieldmarshals will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field -- medicine, law, business, education, government, the military -- Fieldmarshals organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the Fieldmarshals, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people's feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations -- and they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although Fieldmarshals are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. Fieldmarshals root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.

I think it would be great if we could have just one more holiday for which we dress up.  Halloween, as awesome as it is, just isnt enough for me.  I want one more day that everyone feels inclined to dress unlike themselves communally.  It would ruin it if i was the only one dressing up as some freak show hooligan and everyone else just laughed at me... which reminds me very much of a certain party I was invited to one dreadful Halloween weekend... they said it was a costume party.  i guess by "costume" party some people mean "dress like they would if they were going to a normal" party.  VILE.  This week I've been pushing to make Martin Luther King Jr. day the next dress up holiday.  Apparently, from the reactions i've already recieved in my work thus far, this is a horribly offensive suggestion.  Let's face the facts here, people: 1) MLKjr was a well dressed man... at least in the video footage of the "I have a dream" speach, AND  2) If you work in the school system or some other nonfascist goverment-type job, you get the day off, which would make not spending the day in your jammies a celebration of sorts for a man who... well, i'm a little fuzzy on exactly what he did to let me have the day off, but i am very grateful to not be driving screaming children around the greater Lexington area.  So, my suggestion is less along the lines of a wintertime Halloween and more along the lines of stop-dresssing-like-crap-on-your-day-off celebration.  I think i worked myself into a corner here.  Some of us dress like crap on our days "on" (using that word loosely), myself occassionally included.  Ah, but not showering for a few days has nothing to do with what we wear, yes?  SO, as you enjoy doing a load of nothing this coming monday, consider the option of at least wearing a tie when you go out to check the mail; and for those brave enough to actually leave their house, let's make underwear a non-negotiable, ok?