2007-02-14

featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Hold me)
2007-02-14 09:34 am

Kittenpants made cake! I think that means she loves me. :)

Happy Fill-In-The-Blank Day to everybody! (It's useless to pick a holiday -- too many spawned anti-days and reaction and affirmation days to count. So happy whatever it is you're celebrating today. Me, I'm ambivalent about Valentine's Day. I don't loathe it, but I don't love it, either. We're not celebrating. Or at least, I think we're not. And I kind of hope we're not, because I haven't done anything for anybody, and I hate to be The One That Spoils It...) Thank you to everybody who sent me a little note on the Valentinr thingie -- I'm enjoying reading them this morning. Also, anonymous is a sexy beast.

Anyway, did you miss me yesterday? I was out at a Job Fair, trying to be a good little recruiter. This meant that by the time I got home, I was pretty much exhausted. This thing, where I spend all day 'chatting' with people wears me out. [livejournal.com profile] triadruid reminded me this morning that this is because I am an introvert. I forget that sometimes. I have cleverly built for myself a community in which we are always planning something or working on something, or doing something. As long as I can talk about what we're planning or working on or doing together, I can always talk to people and it doesn't drain me at all. I'm an idea person. But if you take me out of my working groups, and put me in a social situation in which I am expected to make small talk or gossip, it's like every word is made of lead and I have to lift it to my lips. Blech. I'm like yesterday's xkcd. Still, I'm doing better, because I have learned by rote some of the Things that People Say, and can call them up most of the time. When I was younger, I just didn't talk unless I had something to say that carried useful information. (I think that meant that I spent my entire sophomore year of high school in complete silence. More people should try that.)
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2007-02-14 09:34 am

Kittenpants made cake! I think that means she loves me. :)

Happy Fill-In-The-Blank Day to everybody! (It's useless to pick a holiday -- too many spawned anti-days and reaction and affirmation days to count. So happy whatever it is you're celebrating today. Me, I'm ambivalent about Valentine's Day. I don't loathe it, but I don't love it, either. We're not celebrating. Or at least, I think we're not. And I kind of hope we're not, because I haven't done anything for anybody, and I hate to be The One That Spoils It...) Thank you to everybody who sent me a little note on the Valentinr thingie -- I'm enjoying reading them this morning. Also, anonymous is a sexy beast.

Anyway, did you miss me yesterday? I was out at a Job Fair, trying to be a good little recruiter. This meant that by the time I got home, I was pretty much exhausted. This thing, where I spend all day 'chatting' with people wears me out. [livejournal.com profile] triadruid reminded me this morning that this is because I am an introvert. I forget that sometimes. I have cleverly built for myself a community in which we are always planning something or working on something, or doing something. As long as I can talk about what we're planning or working on or doing together, I can always talk to people and it doesn't drain me at all. I'm an idea person. But if you take me out of my working groups, and put me in a social situation in which I am expected to make small talk or gossip, it's like every word is made of lead and I have to lift it to my lips. Blech. I'm like yesterday's xkcd. Still, I'm doing better, because I have learned by rote some of the Things that People Say, and can call them up most of the time. When I was younger, I just didn't talk unless I had something to say that carried useful information. (I think that meant that I spent my entire sophomore year of high school in complete silence. More people should try that.)
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (Default)
2007-02-14 10:24 am

Unexpected side effect!

I've been working on my tarot playlist, and I'm about half done with it. Sadly, the half that is done is not a user-friendly chunk, like "all the pentacles" or "all the court cards". Maybe soon I'll get to something postable.

However! Unexpected side effect: I can now call up the images and an interpretation of the card based only on the name (and the song I chose, if applicable). I have tried to learn to do this before, without success. Another piece of evidence to suggest that the best way for me to learn something is to give it a tune (or even a lot of thought about giving it a tune). Nice!
featherynscale: Schmendrick the magician from The Last Unicorn (spinny woo woo)
2007-02-14 10:24 am

Unexpected side effect!

I've been working on my tarot playlist, and I'm about half done with it. Sadly, the half that is done is not a user-friendly chunk, like "all the pentacles" or "all the court cards". Maybe soon I'll get to something postable.

However! Unexpected side effect: I can now call up the images and an interpretation of the card based only on the name (and the song I chose, if applicable). I have tried to learn to do this before, without success. Another piece of evidence to suggest that the best way for me to learn something is to give it a tune (or even a lot of thought about giving it a tune). Nice!