Assignment 8: Joseph Craven

Fears: Intense loneliness, needles, big bugs

Annoyances: Academic pressure, making a big deal out of nothing, and most country music

Accomplishments: All A's so far in high school, Best Woodwind award in middle school, and various ranks and merit badges in Boy Scouts

Confusions: AP Physics, people who intentionally try to start conflict

Sorrows: Seeing friends sad about things, trying to get fit, stress

Dreams: Getting a good college education and finding a good job, finally getting Eagle Scout, seeing many parts of the world, a consistently happy life

Idiosyncrasies: Acting relaxed about most things most of the time, weird shirts

Risks: Climbing dangerous places, doing stupid things for attention/laughs, generally enjoying taking risks

Beloved possessions: My devices (Phone, PS4, computer, etc.), friendships, my cat

Problems: Procrastination, rationalizing concerns, critical decision-making, getting enough sleep



My most significant idiosyncrasy is my generally relaxed personality. I rarely get truly angry about anything that occurs in my life, and I don't usually express negativity in a bad situation. This is some sort of a personal defense mechanism, as not acting sad about a bad situation usually helps me to feel better about the situation overall. An exception to this is whenever I have to make a difficult decision. As I stated within my problems, I am bad at making important decisions, and I usually become stressed and uncertain about choices whenever one of these decisions comes up.

On a less serious note, I have a collection of weird shirts that many people know about. For example, I have a shirt of Nicolas Cage's face photoshopped onto the sun from Teletubbies. I also have a shirt (that I got as a gift from cousins) of a dolphin coming out of a banana with a random mathematical equation in the corner. To this day, I still have absolutely no idea what it means, or if it even means anything. I have more questionable shirts, such as one with a cartoon Danny DeVito, and I hope I can get more odd shirts in the future.