Tuesday, November 29, 2005

I Like Bobby Perry

News from my world:

-So I just left the Student Center at school, where today was the grand opening of the new Chick-Fil-A. Upon entering the cafeteria I was stunned to see media, decorations, a podium with a microphone, Lee Todd, and a Chick-Fil-A representative dressed in some very colroful, loud pants. The only thing missing was the Chick-Fil-A cow himself. Now I am not against grand openings for stuff. But was this really needed for the opening of a Chick-Fil-A? In the UK Student Center? I was completely taken aback by the sheer spectacle of it all. You would have thought it was a carnival or something. And it was all for the opening of a fast-food restaraunt. I found it all to be quite too much. Was there really a need for all the show to attract student customers? Absolutely not.

Students are gonna come to the Chick-Fil-A because it is the best option in that pathetic excuse for a food-court. It beats establishments such as The Fourth Quarter grill and Off The Hook seafood joint. It's not like they have a whole lot of competition. I'm noy saying don' advertise. I know you are trying to reach those who eat at Arby's and Q-Doba. I'm just saying cool it with the grand opening festivities. You don't need a keynote speaker. You don't need flash pants. You don't have to entertainme to get me to go to your restaraunt. Just serve me the chicken.

-I saw Bobby Perry in the food-court today. It saw him and thought to myself "You know, I like Bobby Perry". Contrary to John, I like to look at all the positve things he has done for our team. He works very hard, he rebounds, he plays smart. He is not spectacular by any means, but he is a solid role player. I think he will be a key player for our team this year.

And he is a nice guy. Once, when I worked at AllSports, he came in to get a pair of shoes. This is the conversation we had.....

Bobby: Hey, can I get these in a size 13?
Me: Sure, let me check.
(I go back and check)
Me: Sorry man, we're all sold out.
Bobby: Awe man, that's too bad. Well, thanks for checking anyway.

You see, most of the time in that situation the customer says "Man, you all ain't never got my f***ing size." or "You all need to start ordering more of that s***." But not Bobby Perry. You see, he was understanding. And not a chump. He knows that not evrything revolves around his wants and needs. That will take you a long way in life.

-Today's topic in PSY 313: Personality: personality disorders. Psychology is best when something goes wrong. That's pretty much what personality disorders are. The current thinking behind PD's is that it can be measured using the Five Factor Model. Those factors are: openness, agreeableness, concientiousness, extraversion, and neuroticism. When one or more of these factors is extremely high or low, you have a problem.

There are 10 major types of personality disorders. Which one are you?

1) Paranoid: Constant unfounded distrust and suspicion toward others
2) Schizoid: No interest in social relationships.
3) Schizotypal: Pattern of social and interpersonal deficits, reduced capacity for close relationships.
4) Antisocial: Pattern disregard and violation for the rights of others.
5) Borderline: Instability in relationships, self-image, emotion, often resulting in self-harm.
6) Histrionic: Pattern of excessive attention-seeking behavior
7) Narcissistic: Pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy.
8) Avoidant: Pattern of social inhibition, fear of negative evaluation, judgement, and criticism.
9) Dependant: Excessive need of others to take care of you.
10) Obsessive-Comulsive: Extreme perfectionism. orderliness, need for control.

All of these, of course, must be displayed constantly over a period of time for there to be any real diagnosis. But what is interesting is that we all show symptoms of each of these from time to time. It is only when these patterns of behavior become extreme that they are classied as a personality disorder.

-Congratualtions to Rich Brooks, you just may have picked up your biggest recruit yet in defensive end Micah Johnson. If newspaper reports hold true, Micah has verabally committed to the Cats, choosing UK over schools such as Georgia, Louiville, Michigan, Notre Dame, Tennessee, and Virginia Tech. Johnson, the #1 over-all prospect in Kentucky and the #2 defensive end prospct in the country, has been stated by Scout.com as being "the best big-man athlete in the country". Local reporters are saying that he may be an ever bigger recruiting signing than Tim Couch was. If these reports are true and he comes to UK, that would be HUGE! Let's just hope he doesn't pull an Montrell Jones and reneg.

-Basketball Commentator Bad Pun Attempt of the Day: I watched little bit of the V-Tech/Ohio State basketball game last night. OSU has this player names Terence Dials. I'm sure you can see where this is going. So Dials dribbels into the paint and hits a short jumper, and the commentator (Bill Raftery, I think) says: "When Dials gets into the paint, he really dials in". Come on Bill, was that really necessary?

posted by Wes @ 12:18 PM

10 Comments:

At 11/29/2005 02:40:00 PM, Blogger JTapp said...

I think I'm everything except #10.

 
At 11/29/2005 03:13:00 PM, Blogger d blake said...

i think justin is everything, including #10.

 
At 11/29/2005 03:15:00 PM, Blogger d blake said...

...and i like bobby perry, too.

 
At 11/29/2005 03:31:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Being the obsessive-compulsive that I am (well my husband is the REAL OCDer), you left out the "p" in compulsive:).

 
At 11/30/2005 02:09:00 AM, Blogger Justin said...

it is amusing that someone somewhere interacted with someone who was any of the definitions listed 1-10 and came up with a personality type for it...what does it proove?

 
At 11/30/2005 11:39:00 AM, Blogger d blake said...

the list doesn't really prove anything (it's not meant to prove anything)... it's just a classification system for personality disorders.

they exist... i got to see most of them during my psychiatry rotation in med school. I still see them some. For example... the borderline kids who like to cut on themselves, the antisocial kids who have no social conscience, the histrionic parents who demand that their child is the sickest child ever and deserves more attention than any other child in the office, etc.

As Wes noted, all of us can briefly veer into and out of some of the labels without having a "disorder"; the person with a DISORDER gets into one label and stays there. It becomes a rigid pattern for interacting with the world.

I should have been a psych professor.

 
At 11/30/2005 11:45:00 AM, Blogger troy said...

I think I have all ten... and maybe some that are undiscovered

 
At 11/30/2005 02:04:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

this was an extremly effiecient post. well done

 
At 12/03/2005 12:13:00 PM, Blogger d blake said...

i never really liked the "mary did you know" song.

 
At 12/08/2005 01:10:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wes, I like Bobby Perry too.

 

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