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inmyriadbits) wrote2006-09-15 08:30 pm
inmyriadbits) wrote2006-09-15 08:30 pm
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Massive catch-up post and memes
Gah, I was at skip-250 this morning and have just now caught up. I clearly need to learn to balance a social life and school a little better, because hanging out with people last weekend = work overload this week.
My Comedy class is excellent; we read classical comedic works and modern one, and then examine and analyze the comedic elements and how they operate and succeed (or don't). It's very interesting, I enjoy classical lit, I'm thrilled at the chance to examine comedy academically, my professor is cute and excited about the topic, and I love me some discussion-based classes. Plus, we get reading assignments like excerpts from Jon Stewart's America: The Book and told to listen to the Six-Minute Iliad (somewhere on that page) from Prairie Home Companion. (Mr. Rogers as Odysseus. ROCK.) Basic Drawing is going swimmingly--I'm not bad, I'm having fun and learning. The professor is youngish and amused me greatly by squeeing with this other girl about how awesome Metallica was. SPN fans, be with me now. :) And he then he brought in a Nigerian folk group and Skip Jones (blues) to play during class, so clearly his musical interests are as ridiculously varied as my own. Excellent. My Latin American Short Fiction course is fun; I'm not quite comfortable speaking up in class yet, because I feel horrendously out of practice and fear saying stupid things, but I spoke for the first time on Thursday and wasn't entirely stupid. I did turn bright red, though. I could feel it happening, along with my hands sort of shaking and that light-headed feeling. The reading and listening parts are just fine, though. Bio is easy-peasy so far. I feel this inevitable, as I have taken the following science courses, starting in 7th grade: Life Science, Genetics, Earth Science, Animal Studies, Plant Studies, Chemistry, SciTech, Biology, Planet Earth, Physics, and Anatomy & Physiology. That's two courses a year since the age of 13, minus senior year and last year, and almost all of them had a lab element to them. Unfortunately, I did not take AP Bio, thus the requirement remains. Stupidheads. The lab section on Wednesday was kind of funny for me, because we were drawing diagrams! of things! under! microscopes! and I was reminded of my 7th grade Life Science teacher giving us the rules to creating a proper sketch. And then we did dissections of an earthworm and a crayfish, and I entertained myself with other dissection memories, such as the Starfish That Could Not Be Cut Open Even By The Teacher, the incredibly odious shark, and our cat Egypt in Anatomy (good times, eh Katie?). Lessee...that leaves Intro to the Study and Theory of Film, which looks to be very cool and squee-inducing and is taught by a self-professed "film geek" (her words), which always helps.
I've had a fabulous geeky time with my fannish friends and a fabulous non-geeky time with my non-fannish friends since I got back. :) Highlights include:
--dropping by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maribou413's place after buying school books/art supplies in the area, with no idea whether she'd be there, hanging out and watching the House premiere, and sniffing new BPAL like the addicts we are
--hanging out withorangeaddict discussing life and reading poetry in a couple of different languages (Emily! I have Lorca now! I will share at some point.)
--walking through Riverside Park withorangeaddict and Tashina, followed by exciting fishtank-buying
--Superman Returns at the IMAX withpoisonivory and her friends (who I'm sure have LJs, but I know not where)
--a shopping expedition to Babeland in the Lower East Side withmaribou413. Sadly, Economy Candy was closed, but Cassandra and I found solace in excellent hamburgers/melts, mint lemonade slushies, a random dog dubbed John Sheppard, "Please Don't Feed Dog" signs on glass roofs, an "I Can't Stop Winning" shirt and a FUCK YOGA matchbook, 8th Avenue shops, and Slings & Arrow S3. Oh, and Madonna. We must not forget Madonna, Cassandra. ;) MADONNA IS FOLLOWING US. ON A BIKE. :D (...and now everyone think's I'm insane, excellent...)
--orangeaddict + poisonivory + comics discussion + tea + Everwood = AWESOME.
AWESOME +ladyjaida + Newsies * room full of slashers = MORE AWESOME.
--Making money at $20/hr plus tip and cab fare. Oh, bartending & partyhelping, how much I missed thee. Although, it was kind of bizarre, because I worked for a lady whose daughter is in my twin sister's year, attends her college, and is majoring in the same thing. Craziness. It made me feel a little weird, to be honest; I don't often think about class or money, or the fact that many of the people who go to school with me are much more well-off than my family. But when you're doing menial-type labor for someone whose daughter goes to school with your twin and is clearly very rich, it kind of smacks you in the face. It doesn't bother me, it was just odd to be confronted with the fact of it.
-Becoming addicted to Scrubs with my roommate Abby and our friend (and fellow Texan) JD.
MEME TIME!
This one is VERY LONG; feel free to skip.
Personality Expert
(ganked from slodwick, 26 July 2006)
You are exceptional and unique. Your quest in life is to identify exactly who you are and why you’re here. What’s important to you is the journey of self discovery, determining who you are today is not the same as who you’ll be tomorrow.
You resist being categorized and are quick to question any social standard that you sense someone imposing on you. Stereotypical gender roles always interest you and, in your mind, connect to issues that most other people would never consider related.
You are particularly accepting of other people and have a special talent for seeing people’s true selves instinctively. It takes time for you to trust your gut instinct about people because even you don’t believe that someone could be so right about another person’s nature so quickly. This intuitive sense about what people are thinking is your special talent. You may think it is available to everyone and that others just ignore it, but in truth others could never develop the skill to the level which comes naturally to you.
To you everything happens on a personal level. Your friends come to you for advice because they know that you’ll love them for who they are and put yourself in their shoes to look at the world. Your advice, although varied in delivery, usually boils down to “be true to yourself” and “listen to your heart.” You are also an excellent confidant because things told to you virtually never return to anyone through the grapevine.
You focus more on nurturing other’s self esteem than any other type. As a result of this naturally caring nature, people often turn to you for moral support. You exude this quality so strongly that even strangers will sometimes spontaneously begin confiding their deepest secrets in you.
You are by far the most talented of all types at reading nonverbal cues. In your admirable attempts to convey a message diplomatically, those who aren't sensitive to inflection, tone, insinuations or body language sometimes simply do not get your message because they only receive the verbal half of what you said.
In the same way that you're the best at reading nonverbal cues, you're also the best at sending them. When you speak they miss the nonverbal half of your message, then they speak and transmit twice the message (verbal + nonverbal) which often gives away more than they intended but is sometimes carelessly inaccurate since they don’t send nonverbal cues as well as you do. When you're tempted to assign bias based on someone’s tone or other nonverbal cues it is wise to have them restate what they said and see if ignoring the careless, unintentional nonverbal half of their message lets their true meaning through.
As a parent you are very supportive and start educating your child early according to your values. Your children know exactly where you stand and what is expected of them. You overflow with positivity when your child sticks to the program, and reflect any negative behavior directly on yourself and the quality of your parenting. Your focus is making sure that your child has a strong self-image and high self-esteem. More than other parents it is important for you to be friends with your children.
You are more philosophical than most and passionately discuss ethics and justice more than other types. Your life has meaning, your life is significant. It is when ethical issues come up in conversation that you most strongly sense that you are fundamentally different from other people. You become visually emotionally focused when these issues arise, while others easily laugh them off and switch topics to something trivial. To you, it seems that everyone should be passionate about ending racism, sexism and all the other –isms out there.
You go by the book and are suspicious of anyone suggesting that rules or laws should be ignored. You think constantly about improving laws, and see that at a major avenue for advancing social change because you see legislation and rule creation as the consensus opinion of the group working together. You want nothing more than for there to be peace and harmony in the world, and your actions clearly reflect that vision.
While you can instantly tell what’s on someone else’s mind, you can sometimes be confused yourself when it comes to the mixture of your own emotions. This, mixed with your reserved and complex nature can make it difficult for others to get to know you.
You have a special interest in figurative language. You are more strongly moved by poetry and literature than any other type. You are often interested in the finer points of writing and studying literature because you believe that how something is written or spoken is inextricably connected to its meaning.
In school you were an excellent student, the teacher’s pet. More than the satisfaction of learning, you enjoyed pleasing your instructors with your hard work and thoughtfulness and delighted in the personal praise they gave you in return. You got to know your instructors on a personal level and may have even kept in touch with certain of them after moving on to other classes.
You can “connect” with any individual person and practically read their mind, but you have a natural tendency to match your actions to the expectations you read from their mind and yearn for company that lets you truly, naturally be yourself. You struggle between letting yourself naturally match the sentiment of the group (which feels like putting on a façade) or letting your individuality shine, which may allow people to see how different you are.
Your life has meaning, your life is significant. You think all people should spend more time thinking about who they are and what their purpose in life is.
As a final note, it's been making my week that the current sequence on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
calvinhobbesurl is the arc when Calvin teaches Rosalyn to play Calvinball. Hee!
My Comedy class is excellent; we read classical comedic works and modern one, and then examine and analyze the comedic elements and how they operate and succeed (or don't). It's very interesting, I enjoy classical lit, I'm thrilled at the chance to examine comedy academically, my professor is cute and excited about the topic, and I love me some discussion-based classes. Plus, we get reading assignments like excerpts from Jon Stewart's America: The Book and told to listen to the Six-Minute Iliad (somewhere on that page) from Prairie Home Companion. (Mr. Rogers as Odysseus. ROCK.) Basic Drawing is going swimmingly--I'm not bad, I'm having fun and learning. The professor is youngish and amused me greatly by squeeing with this other girl about how awesome Metallica was. SPN fans, be with me now. :) And he then he brought in a Nigerian folk group and Skip Jones (blues) to play during class, so clearly his musical interests are as ridiculously varied as my own. Excellent. My Latin American Short Fiction course is fun; I'm not quite comfortable speaking up in class yet, because I feel horrendously out of practice and fear saying stupid things, but I spoke for the first time on Thursday and wasn't entirely stupid. I did turn bright red, though. I could feel it happening, along with my hands sort of shaking and that light-headed feeling. The reading and listening parts are just fine, though. Bio is easy-peasy so far. I feel this inevitable, as I have taken the following science courses, starting in 7th grade: Life Science, Genetics, Earth Science, Animal Studies, Plant Studies, Chemistry, SciTech, Biology, Planet Earth, Physics, and Anatomy & Physiology. That's two courses a year since the age of 13, minus senior year and last year, and almost all of them had a lab element to them. Unfortunately, I did not take AP Bio, thus the requirement remains. Stupidheads. The lab section on Wednesday was kind of funny for me, because we were drawing diagrams! of things! under! microscopes! and I was reminded of my 7th grade Life Science teacher giving us the rules to creating a proper sketch. And then we did dissections of an earthworm and a crayfish, and I entertained myself with other dissection memories, such as the Starfish That Could Not Be Cut Open Even By The Teacher, the incredibly odious shark, and our cat Egypt in Anatomy (good times, eh Katie?). Lessee...that leaves Intro to the Study and Theory of Film, which looks to be very cool and squee-inducing and is taught by a self-professed "film geek" (her words), which always helps.
I've had a fabulous geeky time with my fannish friends and a fabulous non-geeky time with my non-fannish friends since I got back. :) Highlights include:
--dropping by
maribou413's place after buying school books/art supplies in the area, with no idea whether she'd be there, hanging out and watching the House premiere, and sniffing new BPAL like the addicts we are--hanging out with
orangeaddict discussing life and reading poetry in a couple of different languages (Emily! I have Lorca now! I will share at some point.)--walking through Riverside Park with
orangeaddict and Tashina, followed by exciting fishtank-buying--Superman Returns at the IMAX with
poisonivory and her friends (who I'm sure have LJs, but I know not where)--a shopping expedition to Babeland in the Lower East Side with
maribou413. Sadly, Economy Candy was closed, but Cassandra and I found solace in excellent hamburgers/melts, mint lemonade slushies, a random dog dubbed John Sheppard, "Please Don't Feed Dog" signs on glass roofs, an "I Can't Stop Winning" shirt and a FUCK YOGA matchbook, 8th Avenue shops, and Slings & Arrow S3. Oh, and Madonna. We must not forget Madonna, Cassandra. ;) MADONNA IS FOLLOWING US. ON A BIKE. :D (...and now everyone think's I'm insane, excellent...)--
orangeaddict + poisonivory + comics discussion + tea + Everwood = AWESOME.AWESOME +
ladyjaida + Newsies * room full of slashers = MORE AWESOME.--Making money at $20/hr plus tip and cab fare. Oh, bartending & partyhelping, how much I missed thee. Although, it was kind of bizarre, because I worked for a lady whose daughter is in my twin sister's year, attends her college, and is majoring in the same thing. Craziness. It made me feel a little weird, to be honest; I don't often think about class or money, or the fact that many of the people who go to school with me are much more well-off than my family. But when you're doing menial-type labor for someone whose daughter goes to school with your twin and is clearly very rich, it kind of smacks you in the face. It doesn't bother me, it was just odd to be confronted with the fact of it.
-Becoming addicted to Scrubs with my roommate Abby and our friend (and fellow Texan) JD.
MEME TIME!
| Your Birthdate: March 10 |
 Independent and dominant, you tend to be the alpha dog in most situations. You're very confident, and hardly anything ever shakes you. Mundane tasks tend to drain you - you prefer to be making great plans. You are quite original. When people don't "get" you, it bothers you a lot. Your strength: Your ability to gain respect Your weakness: Caring too much what others think Your power color: Orange-red Your power symbol: Letter X Your power month: October |
| Your Personality Is |
You are a passionate, caring, and unique person. You are good at expressing yourself and sharing your ideals. You are the most compassionate of all types and connect with others easily. Your heart tends to rule you. You can't make decisions without considering feelings. You seek out other empathetic people to befriend. Truth and authenticity matters in your friendships. In love, you give everything you have to relationships. You fall in love easily. At work, you crave personal expression and meaning in your career. With others, you communicate well. You can spend all night talking with someone. As far as your looks go, you've likely taken the time to develop your own personal style. On weekends, you like to be with others. Charity work is also a favorite pastime of yours. |
This one is VERY LONG; feel free to skip.
Personality Expert
(ganked from slodwick, 26 July 2006)
You are exceptional and unique. Your quest in life is to identify exactly who you are and why you’re here. What’s important to you is the journey of self discovery, determining who you are today is not the same as who you’ll be tomorrow.
You resist being categorized and are quick to question any social standard that you sense someone imposing on you. Stereotypical gender roles always interest you and, in your mind, connect to issues that most other people would never consider related.
You are particularly accepting of other people and have a special talent for seeing people’s true selves instinctively. It takes time for you to trust your gut instinct about people because even you don’t believe that someone could be so right about another person’s nature so quickly. This intuitive sense about what people are thinking is your special talent. You may think it is available to everyone and that others just ignore it, but in truth others could never develop the skill to the level which comes naturally to you.
To you everything happens on a personal level. Your friends come to you for advice because they know that you’ll love them for who they are and put yourself in their shoes to look at the world. Your advice, although varied in delivery, usually boils down to “be true to yourself” and “listen to your heart.” You are also an excellent confidant because things told to you virtually never return to anyone through the grapevine.
You focus more on nurturing other’s self esteem than any other type. As a result of this naturally caring nature, people often turn to you for moral support. You exude this quality so strongly that even strangers will sometimes spontaneously begin confiding their deepest secrets in you.
You are by far the most talented of all types at reading nonverbal cues. In your admirable attempts to convey a message diplomatically, those who aren't sensitive to inflection, tone, insinuations or body language sometimes simply do not get your message because they only receive the verbal half of what you said.
In the same way that you're the best at reading nonverbal cues, you're also the best at sending them. When you speak they miss the nonverbal half of your message, then they speak and transmit twice the message (verbal + nonverbal) which often gives away more than they intended but is sometimes carelessly inaccurate since they don’t send nonverbal cues as well as you do. When you're tempted to assign bias based on someone’s tone or other nonverbal cues it is wise to have them restate what they said and see if ignoring the careless, unintentional nonverbal half of their message lets their true meaning through.
As a parent you are very supportive and start educating your child early according to your values. Your children know exactly where you stand and what is expected of them. You overflow with positivity when your child sticks to the program, and reflect any negative behavior directly on yourself and the quality of your parenting. Your focus is making sure that your child has a strong self-image and high self-esteem. More than other parents it is important for you to be friends with your children.
You are more philosophical than most and passionately discuss ethics and justice more than other types. Your life has meaning, your life is significant. It is when ethical issues come up in conversation that you most strongly sense that you are fundamentally different from other people. You become visually emotionally focused when these issues arise, while others easily laugh them off and switch topics to something trivial. To you, it seems that everyone should be passionate about ending racism, sexism and all the other –isms out there.
You go by the book and are suspicious of anyone suggesting that rules or laws should be ignored. You think constantly about improving laws, and see that at a major avenue for advancing social change because you see legislation and rule creation as the consensus opinion of the group working together. You want nothing more than for there to be peace and harmony in the world, and your actions clearly reflect that vision.
While you can instantly tell what’s on someone else’s mind, you can sometimes be confused yourself when it comes to the mixture of your own emotions. This, mixed with your reserved and complex nature can make it difficult for others to get to know you.
You have a special interest in figurative language. You are more strongly moved by poetry and literature than any other type. You are often interested in the finer points of writing and studying literature because you believe that how something is written or spoken is inextricably connected to its meaning.
In school you were an excellent student, the teacher’s pet. More than the satisfaction of learning, you enjoyed pleasing your instructors with your hard work and thoughtfulness and delighted in the personal praise they gave you in return. You got to know your instructors on a personal level and may have even kept in touch with certain of them after moving on to other classes.
You can “connect” with any individual person and practically read their mind, but you have a natural tendency to match your actions to the expectations you read from their mind and yearn for company that lets you truly, naturally be yourself. You struggle between letting yourself naturally match the sentiment of the group (which feels like putting on a façade) or letting your individuality shine, which may allow people to see how different you are.
Your life has meaning, your life is significant. You think all people should spend more time thinking about who they are and what their purpose in life is.
As a final note, it's been making my week that the current sequence on
calvinhobbesurl is the arc when Calvin teaches Rosalyn to play Calvinball. Hee!
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I look forward to the introduction to Whatshisface. :)
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Work is fine. Of course, this is partially because I haven't been doing it all, but we're not going to talk about that.
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I have to read ALL TOMORROW. Are you in the mood for a study partner in the Elliott lounge? :D
For tonight, however, I am off to bed.
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Ahem.
Hmm, that would be nice. I'm going on this "Art Train" thing with the CU Arts Initiative tomorrow at noon. I'm not sure how long it'll take, but definitely afterwards. I'll call when I get back? Maybe we can get coffee. I'll probably need it. And I'll bring Lorca, for short interludes of happy reading amidst the reading that makes us want to die. :) Sound good?
(I need to upload new icons. My school-relevant ones all went away during the summer. I'll sell the good Constable Benton Fraser instead.)