Of This and Other Worlds

My Personality

Neuroticism	13
Extraversion	38
Openness To Experience	43
Agreeableness	37
Conscientiousness	75

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You are neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox. You enjoy time with others but also time alone. You are generally calm and composed, reacting moderately well to situations that most people would describe as stressful. A desire for tradition does not prevent you from trying new things. Your thinking is neither simple nor complex. To others you appear to be a well-educated person but not an intellectual. You have some concern with others' needs, and are generally pleasant, sympathetic, and cooperative. You set clear goals and pursue them with determination. People regard you as reliable and hard-working.

Hm, wonder where the "desire for tradition" came from? But otherwise, pretty accurate, I think.

Courtesy of Patrick, a couple of cute little diversions:

( Play with Tiggy! )

I always did want a hedgehog.

( What obsolete skill are you? )

10 print "ph33r my mad programming skillz!";
20 goto 10

( I'm a Ravenclaw INTJ )

The result's true enough, though actually the "and others" part doesn't so much apply. I enjoy challenging myself (in some areas, anyway -- in others I'm lazy as a pet coon) and organizing things for myself, yes; but I really don't enjoy setting standards of achievement for or trying to organize other people. It's one of the main reasons I've never wanted to be a schoolteacher, in spite of a host of other personality traits that would ordinarily make me a shoo-in for the job...

Well, I did that handwriting analysis meme that's going around and that everybody so far seems to think is fearfully accurate, and -- guess what? Either I have no self-knowledge whatsoever or it's not very accurate at all. Or at least, not for me.

( Check this out... )

On the whole, I'd say the analysis was only about fifty percent right; and in some cases, very badly wrong.

Next up: a report from Thursday night's Kalan appearance at Sherway Gardens, for the 1% of my friends list who might actually care.

Gacked from lizbee:

What kind of work is my name -- R.J. Anderson -- associated with? What kind of assumptions do you make about a piece of writing, fiction or non, if you see my name on it?

Nota bene: This is emphatically NOT an attempt to fish for compliments. I'm not trying to get judgements on the quality of my work, but rather about its other characteristics. For example, if you were given the name of an actor, that might make you think of a certain genre of film he or she is often in or a type of character.

So what is RJA-brand writing?

The first is gacked from fharraige: ( What Kind of Thinker Are You? )

Interesting. It's true that when I write I think a great deal about the sound and rhythm of the words and not just about constructing a readable sentence. I like prose that "sounds" like poetry when I read it, and yet I'm really not a very patient reader where actual poetry is concerned. Unless it's set to music -- so this result is probably quite accurate.

Something I've lately realized about my writing is that it's intensely sensuous -- my descriptions are very seldom made up of purely visual information and I often spend quite some time finding just the right metaphor to describe the taste, touch and/or smell of what my characters are experiencing. I even find it difficult to read books which don't include the same kind of full-sensory description -- they seem very bland to me, like I'm reading an outline instead of a novel. Which makes the next set of results ironic, really.

Gacked from hedda62, it's the ( Color Quiz )

The really interesting thing about this is that while it's only partially accurate in regard to me, it's almost perfect for Margot...! Except for the compromise part. :)

what kitchen utensil are YOU?

You are a fridge! You can keep your cool, even when faced with a heated situation. You enjoy being the center of attention, and people come to you for advice or when they want something. People also like to stick things to the front of your body.

Wow, how did they know I had kids? *peels Bob the Builder sticker off left knee*