For the past few weeks, inspired by observations of the shifting morass that is self, I've been thinking about retaking the meyers-briggs personality sorter. Haven't found a free one yet, but came across a free 'big 5' test.

My results:Extraversion is ranked as 34th percentile for males over 21, or a score of 3.6. They consider this to be ( Read more... )

So tired yesterday, had been up for over a day. Loaded my frame pack with 50 lbs of books and rode it across several hills to my new home. I'm unused to riding with that much additional weight ( Read more... )

Martin, you transformed the consciousness of a country. Every city worth anything has a boulevard named after you, millions of people celebrate your birthday annually. You brought a message of peace and love to a divisive society, struggled against hatred and misanthropy. Thank you.

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I use a number of plant names for communication personae, such as verbascum thapsis and hydrastis. Thinking about creating a myspace account, I decided to find a new plant name to use ( Read more... )

In the future I'll have a hike report filter. Let me know if you'd like to be on it ( Read more... )

For the first time I have a paid lj account.

The eight circuit model is a map describing a vision of evolution and its relation to humans and society. In this model, society as a whole is moving from the fourth circuit, sexual domestication/hive socialization, toward the fifth circuit, that of the hedonic consumer ( Read more... )

The past two months have borne great changes in me. After years of feeling that migraines and associated pain issues had mastered me, I finally let go when the sun became regularly visible in February. Aside from the situational changes - working again, having money, being able to eat organic - my psychology has rebuilt itself ( Read more... )

I just realized that the jesus-focused religions have their week of passion celebrations and it struck me that this schiavo episode, politicized drama about the power over life and death, has likely been scripted so that the major developments (congress passing bills, today "holy thursday" the supreme court denying them) are meant to happen this ( Read more... )