Have you done anything special/fun on your holidays?
Some mildly fun things. Went to a fair, went to a wedding, read HP7. I'm moving in August, though! (To a much better place, too. More details when it happens ir draws closer, but I do indeed have a place lined up. )
Does it have a washing machine and dryer?
Yes.
Yes!
YES!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!
OK, well, they're a few yards down the hall, but no more laudnromats for me. w000t!
then you're as bad as each other, and i'm still cracking up!
Laundry - The New Sex.
Well, apparently some women *quite* enjoy sitting on wahsing machines...
Are you a balanced person?
Balanced in what way? (It's a rather vague question and I'd like to know what exactly you mean by it.)
How you interpret the question is part of the answer. What springs to mind?
You could be interpreting "balanced" in a behavioral/emotional way, as in, do I "act" balanced. Howver, you could also be wondering if my personality/interests are "balanced." If you could tell me which of these you mean, it would be easier to answer, although still vague as my own interpretation of "balanced" in either of these senses would of course be subjective.
You're overanalyzing the question. The best way to answer would be to decide what you think makes a person balanced and evaluate your own balanced-ness based on that criteria, or you could just not answer the question. I will say that I really don't believe that people who "act" balanced are generally very balanced.
Of course I'm overanalyzing the question, I'm madly in love with psychology, and I know enough about discourse to know that something like "balanced" probably has a different definition for everyone. I, personally, have trouble applying it to a person as a whole, but rather woudl apply it to very specific parts of their lives, probably even more specific than the subcategories I listed above. I don't like to generalize. (This is calling to mind a time a friend surveyed me for a research methods class she was taking, and she wound up saying "You're one of the difficult people they told us about.")
I will say that I believe that I am
functional, which I believe is more important than being balanced. Depending on what
your priorities are, you may or may not think I'm "balanced." For example, during my college career, I made it a policy to put school above all else, including my personal life. Some people laudate this, others think that I'm not properly enjoying my youth. Another example: I fall to pieces over extremely small and trivial things somethimes, but in a crisis, I am often very calm and rational. This is perhaps counterintuitive, but it is also, whenh you think about it, a safer way to be than vice versa (although of course never falling apart would be most preferable). If you fall apart when things are basically OK, you look like an ass, but you're in a pretty safe place. If you fall apart in crisis, you could push an already bad situation past its tipping point.