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wolven7Do you know why I ask questions, and do voluntary response-style surveys? Because I don't want to look like an asshole for including some of you, and not the rest of you, because I tend to get single-minded and while I might get to all of you, eventually, i don't want the order in which I pick you to refleect anything other than what was on my mind At That Very Moment.
Because I like to be surprised by who responds, and what they tell me, and how they tell it to me.
Because it requires a certain amount of trust and openness to do so.
But i've been more surprised by who hasn't answered, than by who has. By what people haven't talked about. But, then, I was always interested in what people were saying by not saying anything. In this case, however, I'm willing to bet that a lot of people were saying "bwuh?"
Not because they're stupid, mind you, but because they just didn't see the post, or the point, or the whatever.
I would like to build a group for the sharing of resources, skills, developmental tools, knowledge, applications, and so on. I want to do this because I feel that information and resource-sharing systems are broken, as they stand, in that there is a ridiculous amount of nepotism and community-based trading, in areas where the purported goals are the dissemination of those very resources and pieces of information. Too much closed-mindedness to new avenues of operation.
So.
1) What are your strengths?
2) What are your skills?
3) What are your weaknesses
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
5) What are your goals?
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
8) How selfish are you?
Just a preliminary, really... Trying to work up a larger questionaire, to really get a good psychological cross section.
I know. Many of you just woke up, right this minue. But give it a shot. I'd appreciate it.
Back to reading BtVS: Season Eight.
Because I like to be surprised by who responds, and what they tell me, and how they tell it to me.
Because it requires a certain amount of trust and openness to do so.
But i've been more surprised by who hasn't answered, than by who has. By what people haven't talked about. But, then, I was always interested in what people were saying by not saying anything. In this case, however, I'm willing to bet that a lot of people were saying "bwuh?"
Not because they're stupid, mind you, but because they just didn't see the post, or the point, or the whatever.
I would like to build a group for the sharing of resources, skills, developmental tools, knowledge, applications, and so on. I want to do this because I feel that information and resource-sharing systems are broken, as they stand, in that there is a ridiculous amount of nepotism and community-based trading, in areas where the purported goals are the dissemination of those very resources and pieces of information. Too much closed-mindedness to new avenues of operation.
So.
1) What are your strengths?
2) What are your skills?
3) What are your weaknesses
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
5) What are your goals?
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
8) How selfish are you?
Just a preliminary, really... Trying to work up a larger questionaire, to really get a good psychological cross section.
I know. Many of you just woke up, right this minue. But give it a shot. I'd appreciate it.
Back to reading BtVS: Season Eight.
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Date: 2008-02-09 05:03 pm (UTC)Also trying to decide if I should wait until you have that longer thing. It's not like I'm hard to get ahold of or anything. :)
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Date: 2008-02-09 07:40 pm (UTC)okay then.
Date: 2008-02-09 06:56 pm (UTC)2) Knitting, working with kids, Chinese and Japanese, classes that aren't math or sciene oriented, organizing things, cooking/baking, and more.
3) low self-confidence, anxiety, and I'm very easily distracted. Also, Scrabble.
4) language-related ones, both my native language and foreign languages. Also, research and paper-writing.
5) to be happier, to be healthier, to get my leg working properly again, to get my MA, and then to go work for the foreign service or discover a job I like even more.
6) I can, but I can't currently think of a larger goal that would encompass them.
7) I don't know. I figure I'll wait and see.
8) Kinda selfish. But I try to make up for it by also wanting everyone else to be as happy as I am, or happier.
Re: okay then.
Date: 2008-02-09 07:40 pm (UTC)Re: okay then.
Date: 2008-02-10 02:11 am (UTC)Well, internet friends, anyway.
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Date: 2008-02-09 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-09 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-09 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-10 04:18 am (UTC)okay
Date: 2008-02-09 10:48 pm (UTC)I take no shit and I don't allow people to be ignorant. I take correction with grace and give correction with humor and humility. I am best behind the leader, not leading directly. I strive to find common ground and make sure everyone has been addressed. Also, I believe my parenting skills (which I consider to be my strongest skills) come in quite handy when dealing with pouty types.
2) What are your skills? I'm a dilettante; i have no outstanding skills. Just reasonably good at almost everything.
3) What are your weaknesses
I hate being criticized - it has to be done carefully or I will take it badly. Correction, guidance, redirection, great; criticism, not so great.
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
just about any area; I'm a fast study.
5) What are your goals? Happy family and finish college.
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
goals nearly always have a bit of friction in order to juggle more than one at a time, but my dreams are small and easily flexed.
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
leave the world better than when I came in, be a positive influence on at least one person, change someone's life, have things to be proud of etc
8) How selfish are you? according to me: about average; according to everyone I respect and love: not enough
go figure
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Date: 2008-02-10 04:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-09 11:39 pm (UTC)I'm smart. Like, really really smart. I learn things easily--not as easily as I used to, being as I'm nearing 30, but still quite fast. I can learn many skills from how-to books (like crocheting, knitting, beadwork I've all learned from books). I'm blunt. Evidence suggests that in an emergency, I keep my head and don't fall apart until later. I'm logical when I don't let my brain run away with me and, if a solution isn't apparent, can figure out a set of steps to follow to find a solution.
2) What are your skills?
I write, edit, and proofread well. I analyze texts well. I can draw passably. I can cook relatively tasty meals and follow directions out of a cookbook--and fairly often understand when those directions are faulty and tweak them to work okay. I'm passable at various fiber arts and can do simple mends on clothes by hand. I'm good at researching and fact-checking.
3) What are your weaknesses
I understand people more as an alien anthropologist would than another huamn being. I cannot pretend to be normal except, possibly, to save my life. If I don't eat and sleep very regularly I go into a mental meltdown state and have a hard time not reverting to the emotional level of a small child. My ability to work well breaks down when I'm not on a schedual, and when unexpected things come up they tend to throw me into chaos. My manic states are all too often often nonproductive can't-sit-still fretting states. I hold grudges and keep score, down to the point that if someone says they'll do some relatively little thing and don't, I won't forget and will put it on my mental tally sheet. I have major PTSD about some things and lock up mentally when that hits.
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
I could always be a better writer. I'm always working on being a better writer.
5) What are your goals?
Write stories. Get people to pay me for writing stories. Not be so goddamned lonely. Be fit and strong again.
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
Well, I don't know. I don't think writing stories is going to clash with any of my larger goals.
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
I hope to convey things through my writing that push the people who read them into thinking more and being better people. Since in a lot of ways I simply cannot deal with the world, this is my way to try to make it better.
8) How selfish are you?
I'm not sure, but I suspect I'm quite selfish--see above about keeping score. If I think my sacrifices haven't been balanced by actions for those I've made sacrifices for, I get angry.
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Date: 2008-02-10 04:20 am (UTC)ok.
Date: 2008-02-10 02:10 am (UTC)I don't know, because I don't know the context, exactly. Because I have like really shiny hair but I don't know if that's the kind of strength that has value here. But I don't want to leave anything out so I will just list them all:
I am hard-working and/or diligent; I am moderately OCD which means I like things done efficiently, correctly, and neatly; I am smarter than the average bear; I am capable of seeming cute, stupid, and harmless; my hair is really shiny and I'm fairly pretty - this contributes to the cute-stupid-harmless image I have cultivated for myself; I read fast and have good comprehension; I care about stuff, like the earth and causes. Like a hippie, but clean; I'm good at math and science and also languages; I'm a good cook; I knit awesome; I'm tenacious; I'm mad-awesome at reasoning and logic
2) What are your skills?
Oops I think I put some skills in with strengths. Anyway my skills are like math and Microsoft office and customer service and knitting
3) What are your weaknesses
Being shallow and vain and nervous all the time. And sometimes a little robotic and emotionless and cold. But that one is also a strength...
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
Math and business. I am going to be a force to be reckoned with (as they say) once I train up a little and get my MBA
5) What are your goals?
Getting my MBA, becoming an accountant or something math-y, making more money, paying off Dan's student loans, buying a new hyrid car for me, various and sundry home-improvement projects, learning to knit lace; reading War and Peace AND Crime and Punishment (there was a Doctor Zhivago fiasco and now I feel I have something to prove when it comes to Russian literature); learning another language... possibly Russian to prove a point but probably Spanish because I'd get more mileage out of it; eventually adopting Natalie, moving to a bigger house, and have her reading and mathing by the time she's 3; being a good mom AND having a career... Learning to play the piano; getting better at ballroom dancing...
I have too many goals
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
Some of them. Like being a good mom can mesh with creating a good culture for natalie to gro up in... like all that hippie stuff. And being all accountant-y fits in with large-scale economic goals. I gues some of the others could too, like wanting to play the piano could be related to supporting the arts or something. I don't really know.
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
Oh. See above. Green city, arts taught in public school (not that it will matter because Natalie will be all montetresori all the time, but whatevs) and a national and global economy that is free of shit-storms.
8) How selfish are you?
90%
Re: ok.
Date: 2008-02-10 04:22 am (UTC)I'm tired, so not a lot of detail on this one, kay?
Date: 2008-02-10 10:52 am (UTC)I'm stubborn. I remember random shit. I'm good at writing, bullshitting, and when I get an idea in my head, I'm going to follow it through. All or nothing.
2) What are your skills?
Writing, reading, dreaming. I can organize, and ask for help very well.
3) What are your weaknesses
I have rational fear of things that have tried to eat me in the past. I'm working on this. I also procrastinate very well. I'm not as physically strong as I would like to be.
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
In myself? Writing, if I knew more mythology I'd be able to write my story better. Physical--I need to get stronger so the zombies won't catch me. I also need to start a martial art. Magic. I need more ways to practice.
5) What are your goals?
In this life? Be a teacher. Write a book. Possibly open a private school. I needed to talk to you about the last one, by the way . . . Not let the zombies eat me. Win a war or 2, but that one goes into the rational fear catagory.
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
I have no qualms joining forces.
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
World domination? One child's mind at a time? Or thorugh the opening awareness of novels . . . and about those zombies . . .
8) How selfish are you?
Extreamly, but if I tell you I'm going to do something for you (usually I offer before I figure out how much of a pain in the ass it'll be for me) I'll do it. Be it show up on a certain day or a giant months long project.
Re: I'm tired, so not a lot of detail on this one, kay?
Date: 2008-02-10 05:04 pm (UTC)Hoo boy...
Date: 2008-02-11 02:58 am (UTC)4) If I were more clear on what my goals were, I would kick ass at everything ever. And if I met her, that would probably no longer distract me.
5) My resolutions are a pretty good synopsis, but in short - continue to generate games, keep dancing, keep helping where I can... the world peace and other universal wishes end up falling flat because it takes away people's free will, and some people want to be sad. I'm going to be a millionaire eventually. I don't begrudge this of anyone else, and would be perfectly happy if the whole world was such (is that possible?), but again with the free will.
6) Sure. Especially the veil one. Although I see that as being most likely to clash with my others.
7) Synchronicity; along the same way as seed crystals dropping into a suspension create a pattern here, and then a pattern there, and then one of the crystals ends up crystallizing the whole formula. We won't all get our stuff at the same time, but I can easily see a point at which it's inevitable.
8) Absolutely; you know about the take over the world bit. But I'm also absolutely generous; I would be a benevolent dictator, I literally give of my life blood, and I really do want everyone to be taken care of, happy, and successful.
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Date: 2008-02-11 11:40 am (UTC)They are many and numerous, flexibility (mental and emotional, & some days moral) a Very unique perspective due to year in the monastery and theomaturgic rituals performed, an IQ that scares people when they discover it, and a few others
2) What are your skills?
same as above, eight languages, math, science, business, machines, cooking, brewing, fermenting, psychology, mental misdirection, hypnosis, and a few others
3) What are your weaknesses
Women, especially natural redheads, booze, and wanderlust
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
deception, accounting, brewing, the non english languages I know
5) What are your goals?
beyond basic survival, obtaining gainful employment, there is the whole carer change thing of becoming a CPA that I have been working on for 7 years now, to brew better, to restore my cars and bikes
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
depends on the goals in question
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
due to the existence of many larger goals I am not sure what an appropriate answer would be
8) How selfish are you?
Depends, on the situation, I mean there are things I'll share more freely than others want me to like an orgasm, or time when I have it but I am mostly self involved and too self interested to not be more selfish than most people.
Are we talking the last cylinder of oxygen and a sharing with how many and who are the other people I have to share the tank with? As currently there are those that walk around breathing my air and given the chance I would gladly squeeze it from their lungs.
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Date: 2008-03-11 04:47 am (UTC)i tend to be analytical. i think my training in poetry taught me to see the details and the big picture. when something is important to me i will think about it until i solve it. i always have a game plan and several back up options. always. i like numbers and data entry and can sit for hours collating, organizing, filing, and double-checking where others would find the task tiresome or boring. i'm a good independent worker, i work well as the strong right-hand man of a superior, i enjoy being the go-to for obscure topics, and i can lead a group with some decency when i think i am the right person for the job. i am a morning person.
2) What are your skills?
how does one really define skills. i am proficient in Microsoft suite, i have trained on several different office networking systems over the years, i understand printers, i am good at organizing data, i am an excellent baker and all around good cook, i am task oriented, i can collate a file, fax the un-signed copies and remember to get everything in triplicate, if called upon i can remember obscure minutiae for my work, i can walk three and a half miles in an hour, i can lift 50 pounds and carry or drag more than 100, i have a limited understanding of film development and photography, i have a decent grasp of the city streets of atlanta and surrounding metropolitan areas, i can provide basic veterinary care for both cats and dogs, i can watch more than 6 children at a time and make sure they all get to bed by eight, i am an excellent standardized test taker, with a dictionary and a decent length of time i can read and understand german, i believe that i type quickly though i have never clocked my wpm, i can write in both formal and casual styles, i am good at editing, i am good at structure.
3) What are your weaknesses
*see previous post*
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
typing, german, excel, driving
5) What are your goals?
I plan to finish my masters by the summer of 2008, after that i desire to get a full time job with benefits and good pay for two years, after that i will attend university for my doctorate, this university will have a suitable masters program for my husband, during the time i finish my doctorate i also hope to have at least one child, after my doctorate i plan to raise my kids to school age while my husband finishes his doctorate, after that i plan to teach, or to write while he teaches, i hope one day to further the understanding of the changing interplay of church and state for american culture. i'd like to have a big house on vashon island or in the mountains of washington state or colorado, to have enough money to go skiiing whenever i want in Whistler, BC, and to put my kids through college, to retire and travel.
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
i think my own goals are actually flexible. i'm not as attached to teaching and writing as it may seem, this is just the plan for now. i could see myself doing plenty of other things, i mostly just want to do whatever works for me, makes me happy, allows me to live well, and gives me a sense of accomplishment. so i dont see my own goals as clashing with any larger goal i might find myself involved in.
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
many people together accomplish something bigger and better than one person alone. since i dont know what sort of thing the hypothetical goal is trying to accomplish, i can only say that i expect it to be more grand and far reaching than any one person could attain.
8) How selfish are you?
i can be selfish. i can also be selfless. both of these are faults and strengths. on a scale of one to ten though, with ten being most and one being least, i guess i'm a five, i'm about average, maybe a little less than average on most things, maybe a little above average about others (like who gets the last piece of cake or do i get a vacation this year).
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Date: 2008-03-11 11:48 am (UTC)I'm smart, persistent, and motivated. I see patterns that most people don't see and I'm good at figuring things out.
2) What are your skills?
I'll stick with what I said on your most recent post. Programming, guessing, and arguing. Oh, and I'm good at reading between the lines. Most of the time.
3) What are your weaknesses
I'm bitchy and neurotic. And I think most people are stupid.
4) What areas could be really strong with a little knowledge and improvement?
Well, I'm a pretty good programmer, but all my real-world experience is with specific proprietary stuff. With a little work, I could be good at more useful technology.
5) What are your goals?
To figure out what I'm really capable of, and do it.
6) Can you see your goals becoming interlocked with a larger goal, or would they directly clash?
They could interlock.
7) If they would not clash, what is your vision of that larger goal?
I don't know that I have a vision, but if I did, it would be fixing the way that the world is broken--maybe by helping people learn to think and reason again because I think mostly that's been lost.
8) How selfish are you?
Very. But that doesn't mean I'm not interested in allying myself with others that have similar interests for our mutual benefit. Selfish people can have friends and mutual goals, too. :D
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