Personality

Random tagging

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So. Vered. I like that chick. Even if she DID tag me for a meme… the 3 random things meme when radomness is something I struggle with. I won’t hold that against her. She’s new. She hasn’t seen me question the very existence of random.

Here’s my shot at it…

1) I’m really angry right now with my former workplace. I’ve been annoyed about one particular issue since 2001 and I just read something that turned my annoyance to anger. Lately, I’ve been talking about blogging my personal branding rant – this thing I’m angry about is related to that post I haven’t written. Or maybe the post I haven’t written is related to what I’m angry about? Whatever. Chicken/egg – Egg/Chicken, it’s all the same thing. But, instead of blogging while I’m angry, I’m sitting on my hands – again. How long will I be able to sit? On my hands?

2) I just ordered vegetable fried rice and fried wontons for dinner. (Why does wordpress think wontons is is misspelled?) I had frozen eggrolls for lunch. It’s that kind of week around here. Frozen. Whatever’s handy. Spend $50 to have food delivered. I hate those kinds of weeks but they are better than not eating at all – which is my ultimate preference.

3) I’m looking forward to watching Survivor tonight. We watched it last week from the hotel but it feels like we didn’t watch it – because we weren’t in our space. That’s weird, isn’t it? I’m like that, I like my house – not the house, just you know, my personal living environment and my boring everyday life and routine.

Now, about that tagging five people thing… errr… who would I tag that hasn’t already been tagged? Since TW tagged Vered and then Vered tagged me – that six degrees of separation thingy is at work and I’m either going to have to re-tag someone who’s been tagged, tag someone who does NOT do memes, or tag some poor new to BlogHer person who will think I’m insane for tagging them out of the blue.

So, rather than risk scaring off the new BlogHers – consider YOURSELF tagged if you’re reading this and you haven’t BEEN tagged or haven’t BEEN tagged in the last six months. And If I stumble into someone I think deserves to be tagged – I’ll come back with that link. I swear.

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Which Lesbian Stereotype Are You?


You’re a Granola Dyke!
You’re pretty into politics and you’ve got the vegan (or at least vegetarian) thing going on…maybe. You’re often perceived as nerdy, but you don’t care: you know all these meat heads will be working for you someday. You’re probably an independent culture loving feminist and this shows through what you read, watch, wear, buy, eat, and listen to. You’re the new grrrl for the 21st century, baby!

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Heh Zoe, you are not alone in your angst here.

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I’ve been tagged. How uninteresting!

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If I didn’t like Elana so much, I’d ignore this game of tag. But I do like Elana, quite a bit actually, so I’m going to try and come up with six uninteresting things about me. It’s really hard because I’m such a fascinating human being.

1) I have a hard time sleeping late in the morning.
2) I am not a night owl and would prefer the light out at 9pm.
3) I’ve become more of a home body as I’ve gotten older. (Or maybe I’m just happier with my home life than before?)
4) I haven’t owned a car in years but I almost always drive when we go places.
5) I rarely use bookmarks for websites that I visit regularly. I tend to type the url every time.
6) I’ve been spammed 62 times today by moving companies. (Not exaggerating.)

Now I’m supposed to tag six people and leave comments on six people’s blogs telling them that they’ve been tagged. But, I’m violating the rules. I have no idea who has played and who hasn’t (except Zan, I know she played because her uninteresting things were interesting.) So go play if you like. (Joy? Sharon? Lorena? Karen? Lee? RE? Gam? Michelle Belle? You in the back?)

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TW has mislead some people

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I’m willing to take responsibility for a lot of things that go wrong around here. I’m also willing to take the blame for stuff. But damn it. Not this time. I do not get blamed or held responsible for the Gator Food issue. That was completely TW’s doing. COMPLETELY.

Do NOT let her fool you into thinking it was me. You know me, I’m perfectly happy not to eat any dinner at all.

TW’s fault. Completely.

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Memories

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Remember my birthday? Remember when I spent a whole weekend catching up on my blog feeds and cleaning out my email boxes? Ah memories, wonderful memories. 10 days have passed. My inboxes are full and I’m behind on both reading blogs and writing blog posts. Damn.

On another note, for those who are even slightly interested in how I am handling “TW’s new job”. Without going into detail, let’s just say I’m amused. Incredibly amused. Everyday. Even when I am bitching because she’s worked 12 hours straight and not fixing me lunch or cooking dinner or assisting with the great IKEA caper of 2007 – I am still amused. It’s quite possible that I’ve never been this amused about anything else in my whole life. Yea, I’m THAT amused. You’d be amused too.

Now – back to work so I can try and play catch up on blog reading, blog writing and library book reading.

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Don’t drink the kool-aid

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I don’t care how much you want to, how good your boss swears it will taste. Don’t do it. Do NOT drink the kool-aid. And for you older folks, watch out for the Jell-o, too.

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Updated: I have not been asked to “drink the kool-aid” – all is well with me. Just wanted to provide a reminder for those of you who ARE being asked to “drink the kool-aid”. 🙂

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Seven Principles of Community

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I’d really like to see those of us who work in community, particularly online community, get away from the phrase “community building”. I’ve never liked it but for lack of a better term or in order to help people understand community, I’ve been using the darn phrase for about 10 years. I’m really done with it. I’m not done with these Seven Principles though.

If you read through those principles, it’s very basic, easy even. Be honest, open and interesting. And show respect for the people who make up your community.

It’s about basic human relations, and creating a strong foundation for long-term, two-way mutually beneficial relationship.

It’s just that easy. Really.

What kind of relationship do you have with your community if you don’t talk, if you don’t listen, if you don’t show respect, if you don’t make a personal connection?

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I got tagged, again. More randomness

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I’ve said it before, I don’t know what random MEANS when it comes to memes. They all seem so random, don’t they? Anyway, here you go, Mrs Micah – random or maybe not so much, seven things about me.

1) I have a very large office but for several years have worked from the comfort and safety of my bed. I’m about to move back into the office and the idea makes me a little nervous.

2) When KT did my chart at BlogHer 07, the look on her face was priceless. While it may sound like this item is about KT, it isn’t. It’s about me – and my chart – which always surprises people. I am a complicated human being.

3) Having a job that isn’t sucking my soul is also making me nervous. Which means maybe I’m a little like MF, when things get good, I get … something. Not sad, just … something else.

4) When I lived in the Philippines, I actually enjoyed cooking. I no longer enjoy it and will do almost anything (including sell my soul) not to have to do it. Luckily I have TW to cook for me and serve me dinner in bed.

5) I am not an Evelyn Waugh fan.

6) I do not like other people to clean my kitchen, or more specifically load my dishwasher. This includes my family members. In fact if I am at your house for dinner I would prefer to do clean up – alone. I know. I’m weird. Blame my mother.

7) Last week I got a Wii fitness score of 43 and I was thrilled! (I am 43 after all.)

Let’s see – who should I tag? How about these three?

A Day in the Life of Thomas (I’d like to hear quirky things about TJ, heh)

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Joy of Six

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Selling or Sucking?

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Last night, TW and I were sitting out on the front porch, as we often do, lost in our own thoughts.  Quiet until she said something about “soul sucking jobs” – which was interesting because I had been thinking about “jobs that make you sell you soul”.

Is there a difference between a soul sucking job and one that asks you to sell your soul?  Is it a matter of perspective? Or personality? Or something else entirely?

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