random observations, and a question.
Sep. 4th, 2008 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanWoken up at 5:30 by cats. No, not mine. Outdoor cats who decided to have a tussle over who got to prowl the garden below my window. Unfortunately for me, the sound of an angry or hurt cat is better than a bucket of cold water for waking me up. So. Hello, day.
Going to be a warm one today, making us sweat before T.S. Hanna comes in to wet everything down. I'm hoping she veers off into the ocean, and the two storms dogging her heels do the same. Bored with summer weather now. When's our first blizzard? (I have a lovely new lap-blanket knitted for me by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marinarusalka I need to use, damn it!).
Watched a few minutes of the GOP convention, and had to turn it off. No reflection on the GOP, actually-- I have the same reaction to any massive gathering of obsessive fans (I tend to skip the Hugos, too). The reports seem to be as expected -- Palin presented the written-by-somebody-else speech with style and perkiness, everyone cheered mightily at the right moments, Rudy G was an ass, and people who didn't like Palin (or McCain) before still don't like them. Now we can get on with the important part --no, not the attack ads that will be in everyone's face for the next eight weeks -- the voting!
Meanwhile, a conclusive-except-if-you're-wearing-tinfoil report has said that NO, childhood vaccinations do NOT have a link to autism. So get your kids vaccinated before they're struck down by a deadly disease we can prevent, okay?
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A moment of rare public navel-gazing: For most of my life my self-image [helped along by external forces] has been that of a champion procrastinator.... and yet compared to 70% of the known world I'm apparently an aggressive Doer/Accomplisher. This makes a day like today an exercise in weirdness, because I feel like crap/a wimp for not having finished something yet, and yet I know that by tomorrow [well before deadline] it will be done. And let's not even get to my guilt-feelings if I don't respond to an e-mail or voice mail within 48 hours!
Is there anyone out there who is an Accomplisher and knows they're an Accomplisher and doesn't feel like they take too long to get to things? Or is that part and parcel of the psychology?
Going to be a warm one today, making us sweat before T.S. Hanna comes in to wet everything down. I'm hoping she veers off into the ocean, and the two storms dogging her heels do the same. Bored with summer weather now. When's our first blizzard? (I have a lovely new lap-blanket knitted for me by
marinarusalka I need to use, damn it!).Watched a few minutes of the GOP convention, and had to turn it off. No reflection on the GOP, actually-- I have the same reaction to any massive gathering of obsessive fans (I tend to skip the Hugos, too). The reports seem to be as expected -- Palin presented the written-by-somebody-else speech with style and perkiness, everyone cheered mightily at the right moments, Rudy G was an ass, and people who didn't like Palin (or McCain) before still don't like them. Now we can get on with the important part --no, not the attack ads that will be in everyone's face for the next eight weeks -- the voting!
Meanwhile, a conclusive-except-if-you're-wearing-tinfoil report has said that NO, childhood vaccinations do NOT have a link to autism. So get your kids vaccinated before they're struck down by a deadly disease we can prevent, okay?
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A moment of rare public navel-gazing: For most of my life my self-image [helped along by external forces] has been that of a champion procrastinator.... and yet compared to 70% of the known world I'm apparently an aggressive Doer/Accomplisher. This makes a day like today an exercise in weirdness, because I feel like crap/a wimp for not having finished something yet, and yet I know that by tomorrow [well before deadline] it will be done. And let's not even get to my guilt-feelings if I don't respond to an e-mail or voice mail within 48 hours!
Is there anyone out there who is an Accomplisher and knows they're an Accomplisher and doesn't feel like they take too long to get to things? Or is that part and parcel of the psychology?
