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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Sleepin' In { and When I Look at You }

Wow, i've been sleeping in super late as of late. Late late! I woke up at 8:30 today. If you know me, you know i'm an unwilling early riser. It's the norm for my eyes to pop open at 5 a.m. as if an alarm had gone off. I dunno what it is lately...winter? Stress? Carb bingeing? Being exposed to unpleasant vibes? Meh, no matter. I'm too busy to worry about it and it will all work itself out anyway.

Until then, i'm going to edit 75 photos (today!), post them in a gallery, deliver an order, fill a couple last-minute orders and close my doors for the holidays.

{ P.S. Chris, i will answer your email after i close my doors for the holidays...i haven't heard of your electronica peeps, but i love electronica. I'm rather into dubstep right now...Oscillator Z, Inspector Dubplate, Vaski, Rusko...let's chat it up for sure! }

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Chris said...: Sounds awesome to me! I've been suffering a bit of a drought of new music lately, and that makes me feel listless and cranky.

Haha, this is one time you should count yourself lucky you're stuck out in the brown dirt -- if you were within range, I would so drop a ton of mix CDs in your lap at times like this. With 8,000 or so songs on my iPod that need to be heard by as many people as possible, I preach the good news of music like a zealot to anyone that will listen (or, anyone too slow to run away).; Wednesday, December 22, 2010
sandi said...: I might be overwhelmed with as great a multitude of tunes at that! Here's shameful confession: i can only listen to music in small doses whilst i work (which is non-stop this week). A song here, a song there. If i listen continually, i wind up scrolling and searching for new songs instead of working. ADD anyone?

And P.S. Todd's looking for jobs in VA.; Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Chris said...: Oops. Hope I didn't distract you with those links!

Yeah, I do that all the time. I leave the radio on (WNRN) in the other room a lot while I'm working on the computer, and I'll hear some song and think, "Hey, what was that? Lemme check that out..." Five hours and a couple dozen purchases later, I'm burning another disc or two to take with me the next day. When the muse speaks, I am powerless to disobey.

So a return to Virginia takes another step closer to reality, huh? Well, good luck! I guess I'll get started soon on your mix CDs to welcome you back, then. ;-); Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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Sevens are extroverted, optimistic, versatile, and spontaneous. Playful, high-spirited, and practical, they can also misapply their many talents, becoming over- extended, scattered, and undisciplined. They constantly seek new and exciting experiences, but can become distracted and exhausted by staying on the go. They typically have problems with impatience and impulsiveness. At their Best: they focus their talents on worthwhile goals, becoming appreciative, joyous, and satisfied.

We have named this personality type The Enthusiast because Sevens are enthusiastic about almost everything that catches their attention. They approach life with curiosity, optimism, and a sense of adventure, like “kids in a candy store” who look at the world in wide-eyed, rapt anticipation of all the good things they are about to experience. They are bold and vivacious, pursuing what they want in life with a cheerful determination. They have a quality best described by the Yiddish word “chutzpah”—a kind of brash “nerviness.”

Although Sevens are in the Thinking Center, this is not immediately apparent because they tend to be extremely practical and engaged in a multitude of projects at any given time. Their thinking is anticipatory: they foresee events and generate ideas “on the fly,” favoring activities that stimulate their minds—which in turn generate more things to do and think about. Sevens are not necessarily intellectual or studious by any standard definition, although they are often intelligent and can be widely read and highly verbal. Their minds move rapidly from one idea to the next, making Sevens gifted at brainstorming and synthesizing information. Sevens are exhilarated by the rush of ideas and by the pleasure of being spontaneous, preferring broad overviews and the excitement of the initial stages of the creative process to probing a single topic in depth.

Sevens are frequently endowed with quick, agile minds, and can be exceptionally fast learners. This is true both of their ability to absorb information (language, facts, and procedures) and their ability to learn new manual skills—they tend to have excellent mind-body coordination, and manual dexterity (typewriting, piano playing, tennis). All of this can combine to make a Seven into the quintessential "Renaissance person."

Ironically, Sevens' wide-ranging curiosity and ability to learn quickly can also create problems for them. Because they are able to pick up many different skills with relative ease, it becomes more difficult for them to decide what to do with themselves. As a result, they also do not always value their abilities as they would if they had to struggle to gain them. When Sevens are more balanced however, their versatility, curiosity, and ability to learn can lead them to extraordinary achievement.

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