Tag: self portrait

I started rebuilding our stairs this afternoon which involved construction adhesive and some very dirty places that probably haven’t been open since the house was built in the 1880′s.  Construction adhesive is really tenacious.  I’ve washed and I’ve washed but they just won’t come clean.

28. You’re given a random day off of work, what do you do with your free day? 

-C. breaks this out whenever I forget which day of the week it is, because I don’t take time off unless I’m too sick to work. It’s something Maggie Smith said in an episode of Downton Abbey.

If given a free day, I’d likely go to the movies.

November Blog A Day 18: 
18. Do you drive? What’s your primary mode of transportation? Do you enjoy driving?

I’m a driver (I’m a winner things are gonna change I can feel it)  (artist: Beck, single: Loser,  album: Mellow Gold, 1994)

I drive C. to and from work every day, which is about a 30 minute trip.  I’ve never owned a new car, and distrust the idea of leasing. I drive ‘em ‘til the wheels come off. (Literally, in one case).

I support the idea of good public transit, but driving is my primary means of getting around. I like a manual transmission, because it feels I’m more a part of the experience. I enjoy long road trips.

There are some cars that I’m too big for. Too tall, especially. I once drove a rental Hyundai which necessitated craning my head forward and around the steering wheel to see stoplights.

November Blog A Day 13. What’s your Myers Briggs personality? Do you feel it’s accurate?

   INTJ Personality (“The Architect”)

                       

It’s lonely at the top, and being one of the
rarest and most strategically capable personality types, INTJs know this
all too well. INTJs form just two percent of the population, and women
of this personality type are especially rare, forming just 0.8% of the
population – it is often a challenge for them to find like-minded
individuals who are able to keep up with their relentless
intellectualism and chess-like maneuvering. People with the INTJ
personality type are imaginative yet decisive, ambitious yet private,
amazingly curious, but they do not squander their energy.

I’ve taken the test twice with several years between tries, and both times I’ve come up with Architect. In my case it’s very accurate.  If anyone really wanted to understand me, it would be hard to beat this introductory page: https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality

“For example, INTJs are simultaneously the most starry-eyed idealists and
the bitterest of cynics, a seemingly impossible conflict.

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November Blog A Day 8: What single word best describes you?

-That’s difficult. Would you trust someone’s one word description of themself?  

What’s my word? You guys know me about as well as one could. Send in your answers, anonymously or not.  I’ll try and make an image that conglomerates them.

November Blog a Day 6. Whatever feels you have on this day, write them out

-Not too many feels today.  As a Democrat abroad, C has spent the last few days texting as a volunteer to get the vote out in pivotal battleground states. Each text has to be sent by a human, so she’s been hitting that enter key thousands of times and answering questions about voting locations, etc.  It’s been interesting to see the varied responses she’s received.  The people in Georgia are very polite. Missouri is another story.

-I went for a quick walk through a rain-damp forest. The maple leaves were beyond vibrant in the mist and grey.