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I absolutely find inspiration in Madonna and MC Hammer. Weird choices, you say? Perhaps.

Madonna is a shining example of a fearless life of reinvention and constant self awareness. I love how throughout the decades she has not shied away from any mistake, or tried to deny the fundamental fact that people change. Her constant, fearless remaking of herself in every stage of her life, in a very public way, while also embracing her past, is an excellent metaphor for this new era where everyone can expect to live a public life. She is who she is, “warts” and all, and is a consummate businesswoman as well.

I admire MC Hammer for a similar ability to reinvent himself. He has used technology and a drive to help others and to educate to turn his life around. If you aren’t following him on Twitter or visiting his web site DanceJam (or even better, going to hear him speak), you are missing some excellent pointers on how to recover from financial ruin, build a strong family and a thriving career. He’s proven that in spite of his initial faltering, he is much more than a pair of shiny pants and a few slick moves.

Who are your unlikely inspirations?

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So, as many of you know I work in social media strategy and training for the most part, with some speaking, writing and business development thrown in the mix (it pays to be well rounded). I really love what I do! The printed word come to life, in a way. However, one of the trends in the social media world is photos and video. Metric tons of photos of all types and reams and reams of video.

I don’t understand where the phrase “generate interesting and compelling content people might want to seek out online” became “take nine million photos and videos no one cares about of you and your friends at events to prove that you were there”. Whenever that happened, whoever started that trend, well… no offense but I’d kind of like to punch you in the neck. Figuratively, of course. *cough*

Let’s put it this way – I have never been a fan of the camera. Ever. I spent 31 years of my life attractive, thin and camera-ready. I still ran from the camera (much to my photographer step-father’s chagrin). I. Hate. Photos. In spite of my aversion to the camera, I used to be able to attend events, to have a little fun, to cut a rug, to learn things, to share my knowledge – all with no pressure.

Oh, not anymore. Now there is no way to just go to an event and learn things, meet new people, share what I know and make connections without the underlying annoyance of the citizen paparazzi. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love your enamoration with your own visages, your need to prove you attended an event with hundreds of photographs of yourself with people you just met. I just don’t share that obsession, and what’s more, I know I’m not alone.

I am sick of hearing the “make it ok” yet super-selfish reasoning: “you have no reasonable expectation of privacy on the internet”. Of course you do! We all do! I may need to understand that words I type can stick around on Google, or exercise kindergarten levels of precaution by not giving away all of my personal details to strangers, or accept that when I’m presenting for work I’ll be filmed, like that, but there is NOTHING that says I HAVE to allow every person with a flip cam access to my mug or person in photos or videos.

I am making it my mission to untag, take down, remove, delete and otherwise control my own visage online. I highly recommend you don’t be shy, either. Tell those amateur photogs and citizen journo wannabes “no” if you don’t want to be on camera, or have your mug grace their Flickr, FaceBook, or other social site. Just say “take it down”. It’s ok. Your face – it’s one of the few things you really DO own online. Stand firm.

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I group of over 200 dancers surprise the commuters at an Antwerp station. If this doesn’t make you smile…

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The six things you didn’t know about me meme has come around again. I’m running out of things to tell you, but I’ll give it a go for my Twitter buds.

1) My middle name is Elizabeth, and I’m  happy I was not named Cherish Stephanie (which was choice one before Leslie Elizabeth – shudder)

2) I have more male friends that female ones, I always have

3) I am always hot, as in “keep my house at 62 degrees in winter, sleep with AC onor windows open any season, hate going places that have heat on” kind of hot.

4) I can not drive in the snow for crap, and ice? fuggeddaboutit

5) Since breaking my collarbone severely with no health insurance, I am super paranoid about ever breaking it again (that was a long 7 months of recovery)

6) I don’t like to drink water. I don’t know why. I have to consciously make myself choose it over coffee, teas, etc.

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I loved this meme found via Meleah so much I stole it for my own. I have made a few changes to take advantage of social web application MuxTape and its 12 song limit so you can all actually hear the songs.

1. Choose 19 12 of the songs you like best, regardless of artist or genre.
2. Put them all together in a CD MuxTape play list.
3. Make 5 other copies.
4. Post your playlist on your blog and put a link to the MuxTape list.
5. Choose 5 people and send them a copy of your CD link each. Send the first copy you made to the one who tagged you.

These are not my 12 favorite songs. I like far too much music in too many genres to pick a list of 12 favorites. This list is a list that encapsulates my nights lately – a mood list, if you will, to calm my recent restless moments. Enjoy. You can hear the list at this link.

Drunkard’s Prayer – Over The Rhine
Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
Handle With Care – The Traveling Wilburys
Sara Bareilles – Gravity
Colin Hay – Overkill (Acoustic)
Honey and the Moon – Joseph Arthur
If I Am A Stranger – Ryan Adams
100 Years – Five For Fighting
She Will Be Loved – Maroon 5
I Am Stretched On Your Grave – Kate Rusby
Whole Wide World – Wreckless Eric
Anna Begins – Counting Crows

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As any good Vayniac knows, our favorite wine guy is all about giving credit where credit is due, saying thank you to people, showing some love and spreading happiness around. It’s half the reason people watch his show (now shows). Yesterday he posted a vlog about good people, and asked the internet to help spread the love by doing the same. Most memes I avoid, but I like this one, so count me in, GaryVee.

I think the meme asked us to pick one person, but I come in contact with too many good people to do that. So I’m just going to talk about a few people who I think are good people, famous and not famous. First, the public figures:

Ze Frank: I don’t know Ze Frank in real life, but I like to think that any one who works so hard at bringing strangers together online and off, who is that creative and who fosters that much creativity in others can’t possibly be a bad person. So Ze Frank is my first “good person” today. I was “on” the internet before he started his Ze Frank’s The Show, but it was his show and my fellow show watchers (Duckies and Sports Racers) who pulled me deeper “in” to the internet and helped me connect to more of the real people behind the monitors. I am forever grateful.

Gary Vaynerchuk: Yeah, yeah, yeah, this one was a softball choice, but who doesn’t love GaryVee? Sure his wine reviews are unique and he has done much to expand my palate, but that isn’t why I watch WineLibraryTV or his other vlog Gary Vay•Ner•Chuk. I watch because his is this fast moving, upbeat positive force who spends his internet credentials (which are huge) trying to make the sometimes anonymous and needlessly mean internet a better place. I love that instead of name dropping and ego stroking and back biting like many of the other “big names” in cyberspace, he uses his powers for good, not evil. Thank you, GaryVee, for making wine and the internet fun. Heck, you might even make me start to like Joisey… ha ha ha

Barack Obama: I have no idea how he’d be in the Oval Office, but I’m thinking pretty solid. He comes across as a straight shooter, looks problems dead on and doesn’t shy away from addressing issues, and above all else, has so far managed to avoid smear politics more than most. His aura of integrity resonates with me, and actually swung my vote this year. It is his strong effort to stay out of the mud slinging as much as possible, in spite of other campaigns best efforts, that has him on this list today, though.

Many of the people on my Twitter stream, like GeekMommy, Pistachio, Meg Fowler and others, seem lovely, but I am still getting to know you. I have a feeling you’d be on a future Good People list, though. On to the real life peeps:

My MIL, Maxine: This lady works tirelessly for church and charity without so much as a “thank you” most of the time. She does everything from running local soup kitchens to traveling to New Orleans to fix houses. She raises money to fix her church, she fundraises for the homeless, for Cambodian orphans, for Katrina victims. She inspires me (and also kind of wears me out – the woman is busy) and she inspires others, and she is a genuine good person.

My BFF, Meleah: I have known Meleah for over 20 years (yikes). We met in high school, when we were both having hard times, and have remained strong friends over the years. She is in New Jersey now (hmm, a pattern emerges…), and I am up here in New Hampshire, so we don’t get to see as much of each other as we’d like, but Meleah is definitely a good person. She overcomes enormous obstacles in health and finances to focus on her family and friends and make sure their lives are not only enriched any way she can enrich them, but preserved for future generations. She has become the historian of her family’s treasure trove of memories, with hours and hours of video and audio footage, capturing the stories of all ages, and I think that is very, very cool.

I have a long list of people to include that I’m not sure want their names online (I’m guessing not since many of them don’t even have email), so I’ll just thank them for being good people over the years in my head and hope they feel the vibes where they are in California, Oregon, Arizona, and more… Maybe I’ll call them all later and spread the love in person.

Who is your good person? Tell me in the comments, or blog about it and come back and share the link with us. Spread the love!

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… I will do the meme I’m tagged with. Don’t get any ideas and just start tagging me willy nilly, blogosphere – 20 years of friendship means sometimes you can get your friends to be silly with you like this.

THE GETTING TO KNOW YOU MEME

1. What is your occupation?
Writer and Editor

2. What color are your socks right now?
White

3. What are you listening to right now?
soundtrack to the movie Once

4. What was the last thing that you ate?
half of an onion bagel with a schmear of garlic and cream cheese (mmm, fragrant)

5. Can you drive a stick shift?
hell yes, I prefer them, but they are getting harder to find

6. If you were a crayon, what color would you be?
Dark Purple. Sometimes Black.

7. Last person you spoke to on the phone?
Honey

8. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
Hell Yes

9. Favorite drink?
Coffee (non alcoholic), Midleton Very Rare Irish Whiskey, Guinness

10. What is your favorite sport to watch?
Hockey, Boxing, UFC, MMA

11. Have you ever dyed your hair?
Yes (it has been nearly every color except orange)

12. Pets?
Yes – one dog, two cats

13. Favorite food?
Mexican Food and Sushi (haven’t had sushi since developed allergy to shellfish – pout)

14. Last movie you watched?
Once (excellent, highly recommended)

15. Favorite Day of the year?
Whatever day we finally move (ha ha ha)

16. What do you do to vent anger?
Blog, Argue, Yell

17. What was your favorite toy as a child?
I can’t remember from the really young years, but once I got into Star Wars I loved my action figures and my Millenium Falcon

18. What is your favorite, fall or spring?
Fall

19. Hugs or kisses?
Kisses. Air Kisses. lol (I like a lot of personal space from most people)

20. What kind of pie?
Yuck.

21. Do you want your friends to email you back?
Sure, I’m always curious

22. Who is most likely to respond?
no clue

23. Who is least likely to respond?
no clue

24. Living arrangements?
With honey in the frozen tundra of New England

25. When was the last time you cried?
not a big crier but I did cry recently over something, briefly, don’t remember what now

26. What is on the floor of your closet?
a few pairs of shoes, computer cables to various things in the office

27. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are tagging?
Not really tagging anyone back, though interested in comment link backs to all replies

28. The friend you have known the shortest amount of time that you are tagging?
see above

29. Favorite smell?
coffee or gasoline – it’s a toss up. no perfumes though – asthmatic

30. What inspires you?
great beauty in nature, hard work and intelligence in people

31. What are you afraid of?
loss. oh! and CLOWNS.

32. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburgers?
spicy

33. Favorite car?
Jeep Wrangler 4×4, Lifted and Tricked Out

34. Favorite cat breed?
no favorite breed

35. Number of keys on your key ring?
7

36. How many years at your current job?
many

37. Favorite day of the week?
Sunday

38. How many provinces have you lived in?
n/a, not a Canuck

39. How many countries have you been to?
4 so far

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To lighten the dark mood around here caused by posts about the current Orwellian nature of the US, let’s take some online polls!

The first one comes with a cool graphic, and tests your nerdiness. The next one has no cool graphic (boo!) but it does test how “pure” and innocent you are. I discovered I am super nerdy and also an oversexed hussy who isn’t pure at all. Enjoy!

And now for how NOT pure I am:

The 1000 Question Unisex, Omnisexual Purity Test

You are only 23.6% pure!

What’s your purity score and nerd score?

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Because I am feeling not-so-creative today, and because it amused me, I am doing the 12 Month Meme, as seem on Meleah’s site today. Quoting her on the rules:

Rules: Basically they’re the usual meme rules, link back to the person who tagged you as well as to Climate of Our Change which is where you’ll find the traits for all 12 months (or you can cut and paste the 12 months into your post if you’d rather.) Pick the month that applies to you…Then, you either agree or disagree with what is written. Then tag 12 people. [I will not be tagging 12 people. Or any people. But, please feel free to play along, if you are so inclined.]

According to Climate of Our Change, the traits for my birth month, March, are as follows (in bold) and my response is in normal text:

Attractive personality. I’m not sure what this means exactly, but I guess I’ll agree since I seem to make friends easily. I’ll assume most people wouldn’t want to hang out with me if my personality was ugly, now would they?

Sexy. if you’d sent me this meme in 2001 or earlier this would have gotten a hell yeah. Now? Not so much.

Affectionate. If we are screwing, yes I will be affectionate with you. If not? I am not affectionate with anyone and often take a “don’t touch me” attitude to mere acquaintances. You have to earn your time in my well defined personal space.

Shy and reserved. BAH-hahahahahahahahaha. snort. heee. gasp. wheeeze. hahahahahahah. Um, NO. I am neither shy, nor reserved, nor, it must be said, tactful.

Secretive. Not really. Sometimes. Private would be a more apt word. Honey will tell everyone he knows his life story in seconds of meeting them, but you have to know me for a while to even get my address or last name out of me. I blog select bits of life, but not all of them by any means.

Naturally honest, generous and sympathetic. I have no idea. I had a real issue with honesty as a teen, it was one of the many, many, many ways I rebelled. Now I reserve stories for my fiction writing and scrupulously tell the truth in my adulthood. Generous – this has waned over time as I live with a terminally generous man and someone has to say no or we’d be broke.

Loves peace and serenity. I find total tranquility boring. I love arguing, often just for the sake of arguing. Occasional tranquility is nice, but constant tranquility is over rated.

Sensitive to others. In spite of my “cut to the chase, blunt, avoid being too politically correct or tactful because it wastes time” attitude, I am finely attuned to the moods and whims of others. I am a master at navigating the “politics” of a situation because of this.

Loves to serve others. No. Absolutely not.

Easily angered. Sometimes, but not really.

Trustworthy. Yes.

Appreciative and returns kindness. Yes

Observant and assesses others. Yes. I definitely don’t miss much, and I definitely do assess people.

Revengeful. This was true as a teen, but not now. Life is too short to bother.

Loves to dream and fantasize. In a way – it is part of why I write.

Loves traveling. No, I hate to “travel” but I love to completely uproot and MOVE somewhere. It’s why I’ve lived so many places, and part of why being here in New England bugs the shit out of me – it is about four years past my “living in one place” expiration date right now.

Loves attention. Depends on what kind of attention, I guess.

Hasty decisions in choosing partners. This one has been true for most of my life, though my hasty choices have led to several good relationships, including the one I am in now, which is going on its 12th year come January 2008.

Loves home decors. I don’t even know what this means. I live in a plain, undecorated home with no knick knacks allowed and very few paintings, etc. Decor to me means “is it easy to clean? will is catch a lot of dust? is it useful”

Musically talented. Yes. I play piano, I sing (or used to), and I have a massive, extensive music collection to match my love of all things music.

Loves special things. Special things?? What the hell are special things? I’m going with no on this one.

Moody. Not really. That would be honey.

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If I have my children’s rhymes correct, today is the last day of NaBloPoMo. (You know what I mean: “30 days has September…”) I plan to try to keep posting as often as I have all month – it’s been fun. Happy endblogging, NaBloPoMo participants.

Did you all meet your goals? I know I did – I finished NaNoWriMo and NaBloPoMo, while still posting fairly regularly to my other blogs and keeping clients happy. Yay!

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Zoot did this meme the other day, and I liked it so much I’m totally stealing it. I’m even going to play by the rules and tag others. That’s right, this meme-hater is doing a meme. What can I say, cool memes are rare, but this is definitely one of them.

Guilty Pleasures Meme rules: Name 6 guilty pleasures no one would suspect you of having, 6 guilty pleasures you wish you had the courage to indulge and 6 pleasures you once considered “guilty” but have now either abandoned or made peace with. Then tag your chosen bloggers at the end of the meme.

6 Guilty Pleasures No One Would Suspect Me Of Having:

I love musicals. Not all musicals, but many of them. If there is a musical on I haven’t seen, I’ll try it out. It may fall into the “not all musicals are good” pit never to be watched again, but often? I enjoy the whole thing.

My favorite movie of all time is one of the worst movies ever made. It hits every negative theme from racial stereotypes and slavery to gender stereotypes, and I have no idea why I love it so much, but I do. What is it? Gone With the Wind. (I think Scarlet’s firm grasp of her inner bitch is the draw for me. *wink)

Wasting gas. Seriously, I love to drive. Part of what kills me about New England are the winter months when driving isn’t safe. I will waste whole tanks of gas going absolutely no where, driving fast, windows rolled down, radio blaring my punk alt mix on my iPod, cell phone turned off. Driving makes me feel better. I miss driving from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo and back on Highway 101, Pacific Ocean keeping me company the whole way, salty air filling the car.

Nosiness. I am really a very nosy person. I rarely indulge this guilty pleasure, but when an opportunity to indulge my inner nosy nature falls in my lap? I’m all over it. I don’t mean “going through medicine cabinets” nosy, by the way. I find that to be snooping, not nosiness. I mean “tell me all your evil secrets” nosy. It’s part of why I wanted to be a shrink for a long time. You know, that and the helping people thing. Or something.

Soap Operas. Specifically The Young And The Restless, which I have been watching since before I could talk. Shhhh!

6 Guilty Pleasures I Wish I Had The Courage To Indulge:

Going back to smoking. I won’t, my health demands it, but… I miss being a smoker after smoking since the age of 10 (I’m 35 and quit in May 2007). I would love to have the sac (and health) to go back to it.

Vacations alone. I have no idea why I won’t/can’t take a vacation alone, but I can’t. I’d love to be that person who could. I’d probably get a lot more of my warm climate fix in winter if I was.

Buying jewelry, and wearing it. Real jewelry.

Makeover. I will never, ever do this. I have gotten gift certificates for a full makeover before and given them to a battered women’s shelter. I literally can’t stand to be touched long enough by anyone but my honey to ever do this. I am not a hugger or kisser or physically demonstrative in any way. The thought of even a massage gives me the willies. But they look so nice in the movies it almost makes me wish I could stand it.

Massage. See above for reasons, and for what happens to the gift certificates I get for this.

Moving to Ireland or Australia. I’d love to. I don’t have the guts to drop everything and everyone, grab honey and go. He has said he’d love to also, but still we won’t. Probably. Unless the country goes to shit. Then maybe. Or not. Probably not. Shit.

6 Pleasures I Once Considered “Guilty” But Have Now Either Abandoned Or Made Peace With:

Classic Movies. I am a junkie for the old black and whites. I have shelves and shelves of movies where everyone smoked and the dialogue was witty and smart. I can’t get enough of them, and have been known to have marathon movie watching sessions of one after another like candy. Yes, I like Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, but I even like the ones starring no-name actors and actresses too.

Murder Mysteries. I am a writer and editor and went to college to study English Literature and Psychology. I once did the bookstore owner thing with an ex. I used to think every book had to have merit to hit my shelf. Now I openly admit to reading as much murder mystery/psycological thriller trash as the next person and keep them on the shelf with my Ayn Rand and Shakespeare.

Star Magazine. Yeah, I have a subscription to a gossip rag. What of it?

Drugs. I used to be into drugs, and hid it well, but now I have abandoned that guilty pleasure. In fact, it has been over a decade since I abandoned that guilty pleasure. I have come to terms with the fact that I kind of miss those wild days, though.

Messing with people. I do this all the time. I have just come to terms with it. I love to mess with people. Mainly by getting them to listen to a long involved story and seeing how long they will believe it, then watching their face when I insert something improbable that tells them I’m kidding, or just out right tell them I was joking. Hee. I am terrible.

Moving. I love new places and new people. I’m addicted to it. In fact, we’ve been stationary here too long. I have long since come to terms with my need to pack up and go periodically.

This meme actually took a while and made me think, a rare thing in a meme. I am tagging:

Meleah

Pippa

JP

RSM/Rude Girl

Tesco

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Meleah tagged me for a meme called 7 Things You Don’t Know But I Do (one of the many “tell us about yourself” memes). Fine. I’ll do it. But I won’t pass on the pain. Of course, if you choose to do the meme, let me know in the comments. Anyway, on to the meme…

I met my honey in reform school when we were 15 years old.

I met the lovely Meleah there too.

I have drawn all of my own artwork for my tattoos.

I read very quickly – if I have the spare time I can read and retain as many as three books in one day. When I have time, I review them on one of my blogs, too.

I can not focus well without multitasking. I can often be found watching DVR’d shows on TV, laptop going and book at the ready. Right now I’m writing this while watching my DVR episode of House.

I prefer Tarjhay to MallWart.

My favorite foods are sushi and Mexican food.

There you have it – seven random Leslie facts.

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Have you taken the Myers Briggs personality test, ever? I have, and I come up the same, every time: ENTP

Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
by Marina Margaret Heiss

Profile: ENTP
Revision: 3.0
Date of Revision: 26 Feb 2005

“Clever” is the word that perhaps describes ENTPs best. The professor who juggles half a dozen ideas for research papers and grant proposals in his mind while giving a highly entertaining lecture on an abstruse subject is a classic example of the type. So is the stand-up comedian whose lampoons are not only funny, but incisively accurate.

ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue–both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills. They tend to have a perverse sense of humor as well, and enjoy playing devil’s advocate. They sometimes confuse, even inadvertently hurt, those who don’t understand or accept the concept of argument as a sport.

ENTPs are as innovative and ingenious at problem-solving as they are at verbal gymnastics; on occasion, however, they manage to outsmart themselves. This can take the form of getting found out at “sharp practice”–ENTPs have been known to cut corners without regard to the rules if it’s expedient — or simply in the collapse of an over-ambitious juggling act. Both at work and at home, ENTPs are very fond of “toys”–physical or intellectual, the more sophisticated the better. They tend to tire of these quickly, however, and move on to new ones.

ENTPs are basically optimists, but in spite of this (perhaps because of it?), they tend to become extremely petulant about small setbacks and inconveniences. (Major setbacks they tend to regard as challenges, and tackle with determin- ation.) ENTPs have little patience with those they consider wrongheaded or unintelligent, and show little restraint in demonstrating this. However, they do tend to be extremely genial, if not charming, when not being harassed by life in general.

In terms of their relationships with others, ENTPs are capable of bonding very closely and, initially, suddenly, with their loved ones. Some appear to be deceptively offhand with their nearest and dearest; others are so demonstrative that they succeed in shocking co-workers who’ve only seen their professional side. ENTPs are also good at acquiring friends who are as clever and entertaining as they are. Aside from those two areas, ENTPs tend to be oblivious of the rest of humanity, except as an audience — good, bad, or potential.
Some Famous ENTPs:

Alexander the Great
Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart
Sir Walter Raleigh
Fictional:

Mercutio, from Romeo and Juliet
Horace Rumpole, from John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey series
Dorothy L. Sayers’s detective Lord Peter Wimsey

A Functional Analysis — by Joe Butt
Extraverted iNtuition

ENTPs are nothing if not unique. Brave new associations flow freely from the unconscious into the world of the living. Making, discovering and developing connections between and among two or more of anything is virtually automatic. The product of intuition is merely an icon of process; ENTPs are in the business of change, improvement, experimentation.

The attraction Extraverted iNtuition has toward the real and physical amounts to a cosmic non sequitur: theory is drawn to practice. Such encounters are clearly puzzling. Both parties–the intuitor and the realist–are aware of a xenic quality in their meeting, with reactions ranging from recoil to reverie.
Introverted Thinking

Thinking is iNtuition’s ready assistant, an embodiment of the sort of logic found in laws, boards and circuits. Thinking’s job is to lend focus and direction to iNtuition’s critical mass. The temporary habitations of changeling iNtuition are constructed of Boolean materials from Thinking’s storehouse. Ultimately, Thinking is no match for iNtuition’s prodigiousness. Systems lie in various states of disarray, fragmentary traces of Thinking’s feverish attempts to shadow and undergird the leaps of the dominant function. One can only suppose that Thinking must continue to work during REM sleep pulling together iNtuition’s brainchildren into integral wholes.
Extraverted Feeling

To the extent that Feeling is developed, ENTPs extravert Feeling judgment. As a result, it is not uncommon to find affability and bonhomie in members of this species. Tertiary functions are potentially utilitarian. Their limitations appear in their relative underdevelopment, diminished endurance, and vulnerability. ENTPs may harness Feeling’s good will in areas such as sales, service, drama, humor and art. ENTP loyalty often runs high and can be hooked by those the ENTP counts as friends.
Introverted Sensing

Like a tail on the kite of iNtuition, Introverted Sensing counterweighs these beings drawn to nonconformity and anarchy. These shadowy sensory forms, so familiar to SJ types, serve as lodestones which many ENTPs employ Herculean measures to escape. “Question authority! (then do exactly what it tells you)” sums up the dilemma in which ENTPs may find themselves by attempting to best the tarbaby Sensing. Occasionally acknowledging awareness of norms and abnormality could, in theory, be potentially freeing.

Additionally, I’ve noticed that ENTPs have the need to have areas of expertise/excellence/uniqueness in which one is second to none. I’ve never beaten an ENTP at his/her own game–not in the final analysis. (e.g., just tonight, my neighbor who is recuperating from an illness received a call from an ENTP friend offering his special recipe for tea. The instructions required only the finest ingredients, a particular brand of orange juice, tea made with a ball–none of those horrid teabags–…, which will of course make the best tea of which he himself drinks 50 gallons each winter!)
A Few More Famous ENTPs

U.S. Presidents:
John Adams, 2nd US president.
[Adams appears to have been competing with
Thomas Jefferson to see who would live the
longest. ("Jefferson surv...")]
James A. Garfield (who could reportedly write Latin
with one hand and Greek with the other, simultaneously)
Rutherford B. Hayes
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt

Thomas Edison
Lewis Carrol, author (Alice in Wonderland)
Julia Child
Suzanne Pleshette
George Carlin
Valerie Harper
John Candy
John Sununu
Weird Al Yankovick
Marilyn Vos Savant
Alfred Hitchcock
Tom Hanks
David Spade
Céline Dion
Matthew Perry, Chandler (“Friends”)
Rodney Dangerfield
Fictional Characters:

“Q” (Star Trek–The Next Generation)
Shirley Feeney (Laverne and Shirley)
Bugs Bunny
Wile E. Coyote
Garfield the cat

Copyright © 1996-2007 by Joe Butt and Marina Margaret Heiss

If you’ve taken the test, what’s your type? Do you think it is accurate? Mine fits me to a “T”.

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Why November Insanity? If you haven’t been reading, I will be participating in a double whammy of KRAZEE this month, as announced here. I will be doing both NaBloPoMo and NaNoWriMo this year. I know! I have no idea how I will pull it off, but I will! I’m determined.

My NaBloPoMo blog is this one, Smoke Rings and Coffee Stains, and you can see my NaBlo profile here. Go ahead and add me as a friend. I’ll need all the nagging support I can get this month.

For NaNoWriMo, I have a working title, but not much else. You can see that profile over here. Right now my stats look something like this:

Title: The Invisible Wife
Plot: sure
Outline: seat of pants
Genre: Literary Fiction. For now.
Word Count: 0

If you look in the sidebar, you can see a word count bar that will update automatically as I submit more and more of the novel to NaNoWriMo as the month goes on.

You can also keep reading my stuff on AppleGrrl (today I talk about my experience playing with Leopard), Writers Well, Books Without Limits, Profy (today’s topic? Virtual Cadavers) and more!

Two hours until kick off, people! Are you ready to rummmmbleeee?

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A bunch of bloggers wrote me last night to ask if I was participating in Blog Action Day. After determining what that was (a day for bloggers to blog about environmental causes on their blog, apparently) the answer is “No, I am not.” I’m sure it is a good cause, this environment thing, but it isn’t one of my good causes. My causes are mostly animal related: ASPCA, Humane Society, preventing breed-specific legislation, fighting the switch to HFA inhalers, that sort of thing. I don’t even recycle (gasp!). Should I do more for environmental causes? Yes, I should do things like recycle and the like, but I flat don’t have room or time right now, sorry tree huggers! Regardless, if any of the rest of you are participating in Blog Action Day, put your links in the comments.

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