According to Typealyzer, the Art of the Firebird blog is Myers-Briggs type ESTP, which they define as: ESTP – The Doers The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities. The Doers are happiest with action-filled …
Category: Miscellaneous
Stuff that doesn't belong anywhere else.
Dec 17
The 99 Things Meme
There’s a meme going around the blogosphere where you go through a list of 99 things, indicating the ones you’ve done, the ones you haven’t done and never ever want to do, and the ones you haven’t done but would like to do. Here’s my take on the list, with Things I’ve done in bold. …
Nov 25
Old friends
I’ve always had a bit of envy for those people who can maintain lifetime friendships. You know the ones. They’re well into adulthood, but still BFF with their childhood playmates/high school pals/college roommates even through the years and the miles. I have a hard enough time making friends, but it seems I have an even …
Nov 21
Not such a good idea after all
So saying I’d do NaBloPoMo this year, or at least this month of this year, wasn’t such a great idea after all. I’m still battling the latest depressive episode, and that means that my creativity is shot to hell at the moment. Every time I think of writing, I realize it’s likely to turn into …
Nov 15
Birthday meme (a month late)
Pity I didn’t find this meme a month ago! – October 11 – You are very independent and don’t care what others think of you. You are genuine and romantic. You love the outdoors, travel and the arts. Positive Traits: imaginative, idealistic, persuasive, spiritual, intuitive Negative Traits: procrastination, sloth, sarcastic, laziness, temperamental ‘What does your …
Nov 12
A Day With Nothing To Say
That was today.? Basically, nothing happened. Classes occurred. The mail didn’t. I’m almost caught up on the computer stuff, but not the grading. I’m stuck on this week’s NYT Sunday crossword. Maurice finally was voted off Dancing With The Stars. Julianne Hough is amazing, doing a high-energy jive two weeks after an appendectomy/endometrial surgery. See, …
Nov 05
Obligatory Post-Election Post
Thank goodness it’s November 5.? Except that here in Georgia we can look forward to, gag, another four weeks of campaign nonsense, as our Senate race has apparently been tipped into a runoff. The Senate campaign ads were possibly the most aggravating of all of them, and it looks like we’re going to be subjected …
Nov 04
Using Social Media
It all started with my original blog at LiveJournal, which was to be the mis-adventures of a mid-40’s divorced woman. Since I met DH almost immediately, that went by the wayside, and the blog eventually moved here when I set up Art of the Firebird and became a general-purpose blog. Then I discovered Del.icio.us and …