what_is_your_greatest_weakness epitome of incomprehensibility This is a silly question, and I haven't been asked any form of it in a job interview for the past two years, but I'm worried. 130809 ... e_o_i What is your greatest strength? would be worse, though. 130809 ... e_o_i I mean, right now I'm feeling pretty silly that I got nervous after realizing that I didn't have much of an appetite for a late supper (I didn't get enough sleep last night, and I have a vendetta against things that are hard to chew, like green beans) and then when I had to pee I got scared that I had diabetes, and I had to call the rest of the immediate family - at midnight! - in their Laurentian fortress just to wail about my possible ailments, when a quick Wikipedia search would tell me that the symptoms don't even line up. (I almost spelled line "lign." Diagnosis: I am tired.) Yeah, I "used to" be a hypochondriac. But that isn't my greatest weakness, is it? Ah, I'm just nervous because I have a job interview Monday, and I'm supposed to be able to speak French. Possibilities for weaknesses: Sometimes I can't cook, but I am improving because sometimes I can; I have a violent temper, but that's just because I'm a reincarnation of Anne of Green Gables; I'm a surrealist, but that's okay because relativistic slushies of metempsychosis hover lazily over Daisyworld. Oh. I just re-remembered the joke I remembered this morning. Person A: Do you believe in reincarnation? Person B: No, but I did in my previous life. See, it's not even funny, but I was upset that I'd forgotten what I was thinking of. Now I've come full circle, so I need to go to sleep. 130809 ... e_o_i I don't know what my greatest weakness is, but I've decided my second greatest weakness is a tendency to derail serious conversations. 130824 ... amy anthropology i just sort of have the lion in chains. Actually, no. My greatest weakness is I can't handle it all. sum larger than parts, so. 130824 ... raze for a while now, i've thought this would make for an amusing comedy sketch: someone shows up for a job interview. all goes well, until they're asked what their greatest strength is. "i'm very thorough," they say, "and unflinchingly honest." "very good. and your greatest weakness?" they proceed to systematically list every single flaw they can think of, in one unending run-on sentence. there's a brief cut, or an editing trick implying the passage of time, and hours later they're still going, oblivious to the horror that's etched itself into the face of their potential employer, who's paralyzed with disbelief. (as for me, too often i have a self-defeating attitude before i've even attempted something. that's the one that flashes at me all neon-like.) 130824 ... unhinged i avoid confrontation at all costs 130825 ... no reason fear 130826 ... e_o_i Fear of fear, too; Roosevelt or whoever was right. 131112 ... unhinged gin and quesadillas from the bar up the street. fat and alcohol are about all that will make me feel better right now. 140721 ... Toxic_Kisses Easy. My ever present social ineptitude as well as my constantly fluctuating (but never gone) social anxiety. 140721 ... e_o_i Procrastination? Sugar? 141106 ... unhinged i do not defend myself or communicate my needs very well on_the_other_hand i don't think it's my responsibility to teach other adults how_to_be_a_decent_human_being 141107 what's it to you? who go blather from