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textualdevianceThis is interesting:
You are an SRCL--Sober Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you an Ayn Rand ideal. Taggart? Roark? Galt? You are all of these. You were born to lead. You may not be particularly exciting, but you have a strange charisma--born of intellect and personal drive--that people begin to notice when they have been around you a while. You don't like to compromise, but you recognize when you have to.
You care absolutely nothing what other people think, and this somehow attracts people to you. Treat them well, use them wisely, and ascend to your rightful rank.
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I wouldn't say that's wholly accurate. I do care about what people think. Well, more that I care about what people feel. I'm not interested in stepping on people's feelings to get somewhere. Although I admit that I don't care for coddling people who are just being spoiled and selfish about something. But as for not caring about what people think of me, well, that's mostly true, I guess. There's a place in me that always wants to be liked by everyone, but I have no desire whatsoever to change myself to make that happen. I would simply rather that other people like me the way I am. After all, if you change so someone will like you, they're not really liking *you* anyway. It's a little lonely sometimes being an oddball, but I figure that the people who like me this way are far more likely to stick around than people who like others only for fitting some homogenous ideal. I have no desire for fad friends.
**
I'm almost over my flu! Hooray! Maybe by tomorrow I'll feel well enough to actually start doing something again. Being down for a week-plus has really pissed me off, especially with the weather so nice, and my brain humming with all sorts of plots and plans for things I want to get done. At least the forecast looks good for the next week or so. Just one or two days of showers, and otherwise nice and mild. I can deal with that. I'm really eager to start doing some domestic things. I've lived in this house for 4 1/2 years now, and that's the longest I've been in one dwelling since I moved out of my parents' place when I was 17. Normally I start getting antsy around three years and feel the need to move. Or maybe it's just because that's the only time I actually ever clean and organize anything. So my solution this time is to start re-organizing and re-decorating. New furniture, new configurations for things, etc. Of course, knowing my lazy ass, I'll get about 1/3 of the way through it and get bored or tired and quit. Or injure myself moving something.
Part of my problem is that I'm a massive packrat. I never throw anything away. I think it's because of growing up so poor, plus being such an environmentalist, I have a hard time throwing away anything that could be at all useful. Something that just needs a little bit of repair, for instance, I just can't bear to consider trash. But of course, thrift stores won't take a lamp with a broken switch, or a couch that needs re-uphoulstering. That and I have really strong emotional ties to tangible things. Everything in my house is a memory of something or other, and I can't easily get rid of it. And then there's always the "I spent money on this, how can I just toss it?" factor. I really should rename my house from Chez Fou to Mathom Manor.
I feel guilty sometimes for the amount of clutter I accumulate. I have probably 100 projects in various states of done-ness all over the house and my puters. Writings, reading, sewing, cooking, music, video, gardening.. etc,, ad infinitum. My Virgo moon hates this and is constantly gnawing at my brain to simply get on task and get some of these things done, and, for heaven's sake, don't start anything new in the middle of it, either. My Gemini side, however, thinks the Virgo is an anal-retentive tosser and tells her to stfu and go with the flow. Ah, me...
You are an SRCL--Sober Rational Constructive Leader. This makes you an Ayn Rand ideal. Taggart? Roark? Galt? You are all of these. You were born to lead. You may not be particularly exciting, but you have a strange charisma--born of intellect and personal drive--that people begin to notice when they have been around you a while. You don't like to compromise, but you recognize when you have to.
You care absolutely nothing what other people think, and this somehow attracts people to you. Treat them well, use them wisely, and ascend to your rightful rank.
From here
I wouldn't say that's wholly accurate. I do care about what people think. Well, more that I care about what people feel. I'm not interested in stepping on people's feelings to get somewhere. Although I admit that I don't care for coddling people who are just being spoiled and selfish about something. But as for not caring about what people think of me, well, that's mostly true, I guess. There's a place in me that always wants to be liked by everyone, but I have no desire whatsoever to change myself to make that happen. I would simply rather that other people like me the way I am. After all, if you change so someone will like you, they're not really liking *you* anyway. It's a little lonely sometimes being an oddball, but I figure that the people who like me this way are far more likely to stick around than people who like others only for fitting some homogenous ideal. I have no desire for fad friends.
**
I'm almost over my flu! Hooray! Maybe by tomorrow I'll feel well enough to actually start doing something again. Being down for a week-plus has really pissed me off, especially with the weather so nice, and my brain humming with all sorts of plots and plans for things I want to get done. At least the forecast looks good for the next week or so. Just one or two days of showers, and otherwise nice and mild. I can deal with that. I'm really eager to start doing some domestic things. I've lived in this house for 4 1/2 years now, and that's the longest I've been in one dwelling since I moved out of my parents' place when I was 17. Normally I start getting antsy around three years and feel the need to move. Or maybe it's just because that's the only time I actually ever clean and organize anything. So my solution this time is to start re-organizing and re-decorating. New furniture, new configurations for things, etc. Of course, knowing my lazy ass, I'll get about 1/3 of the way through it and get bored or tired and quit. Or injure myself moving something.
Part of my problem is that I'm a massive packrat. I never throw anything away. I think it's because of growing up so poor, plus being such an environmentalist, I have a hard time throwing away anything that could be at all useful. Something that just needs a little bit of repair, for instance, I just can't bear to consider trash. But of course, thrift stores won't take a lamp with a broken switch, or a couch that needs re-uphoulstering. That and I have really strong emotional ties to tangible things. Everything in my house is a memory of something or other, and I can't easily get rid of it. And then there's always the "I spent money on this, how can I just toss it?" factor. I really should rename my house from Chez Fou to Mathom Manor.
I feel guilty sometimes for the amount of clutter I accumulate. I have probably 100 projects in various states of done-ness all over the house and my puters. Writings, reading, sewing, cooking, music, video, gardening.. etc,, ad infinitum. My Virgo moon hates this and is constantly gnawing at my brain to simply get on task and get some of these things done, and, for heaven's sake, don't start anything new in the middle of it, either. My Gemini side, however, thinks the Virgo is an anal-retentive tosser and tells her to stfu and go with the flow. Ah, me...
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Oh yeah, Mathom Manor - LOL I should keep that in mind. I know that problem. Not that I keep everything, but still too much, and oh yes, us Gemini and our thousands of unfinished projects... :-) Good luck on the refurbishing/redecorating! May your energy keep you until past half of it is done at least.