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Alphabet in August – Q to T

Posted by on Monday 29 August 2011 in meta | 0 comments

This is a month-long creative exercise led by Chiot’s Run: descriptive words and pictures about me/my life starting with each letter of the alphabet. Most people are doing a letter a day but I’m doing it in groups instead. I’m a little behind at the moment because of one of the words for L and one of the words for P… :)

(Ok, that’s a bit of a cheat but I couldn’t think of any other ideas for a Q picture and while her very-much-missed brother Carbon has been featured, alongside Boron & Lily-dog, Carla hasn’t been used for a picture yet and dagnammit, she deserves to be. :) )

Q is for…

  • Quick-learner: I pick things up quickly, which is useful given my many interests!
  • Quick-witted: Cheating with another “quick-” word :) There is nothing like knowing other quick-wits to speed up your own response time.
  • Questioning: I accept very little on face value.
  • Quitter: Quitter is a bit too strong really, I’m just not a finisher of things. I’m good at doing the first 80% of things, bad at the last 20%.
  • Quibbler: This goes with “questioning” I guess but in a bad way: I get stuck on the micro details in macro arguments sometimes.

(And egg shells are one of my favourite examples of recycling since they can be baked and fed back to the chickens as a calcium booster, enabling them to produce more eggs. Weee! That’s also one of the first pictures I took for my other site, How Can I Recycle This?, back in early 2006.)

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Alphabet in August – I to L

Posted by on Monday 15 August 2011 in meta | 0 comments

This is a month-long creative exercise led by Chiot’s Run: descriptive words and pictures about me/my life starting with each letter of the alphabet. Most people are doing a letter a day but I’m doing it in groups instead ;)

(I love it when it’s icy in winter and I have a good excuse to hide inside near the stove, crafting with animals on top of me :) )

I is for…

  • Interested: in everything. All the time.
  • Introspective: this exercise is an example of this! I’m generally much more negative when introspective in my own brain though and have had to stop keeping diaries because they just became negative introspection feedback loops.
  • Introverted: I came across this list of myths about introverted people a few months ago and nodded a lot.
  • Insolent: I generally don’t mean to be but I often come off that way because I don’t blindly abide by a number of social pleasantries for the sake of it (see “introverted”). I also usually beat myself up about it for hours afterwards (see “introspective”! ;) )
  • Idler: Different from being lazy (which I also am, see below), I greatly value regular periods of idling – downtime playing computer games or relatively mindless crafting etc. With those distracting my conscious brain, my subconscious can figure things out all sorts of things for me or produce a variety of creative ideas.

(John, my favourite meatbag. Well, human meatbag. We share a brain as well as a home but we rarely share dessert, oh no.)

J is for…

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