more (and more astonishing) handwriting analysis

tried handwriting analysis again on a sample from unlined paper, and checking the other option where there were two possibilities which seemed more or less equal to me (ie tall retraced d&ts vs. loops in their stems).

some the same, a couple of eh? moments and several STUNNING differences:

Cim will demand respect and will expect others to treat her with honor and dignity. Cim believes in her ideas and will expect other people to also respect them. She has a lot of pride.  was thinking about this recently.  very little infuriates me as much as being not taken seriously, or made fun of, ever since i was a child and adults who talked down to me got in my permanent black books--there are elderly nice people at my parents' church i still hate for this reason, and i'm still somewhat ticked at both guinevere33 and wax_jism for making fun of me at an IHOP last january.

Cim is a very emotional person with a broad range of emotions from the highest highs to the lowest lows. She feels emotional situations very strongly... peaks of elation... then,... burn out emotionally. These moods swings can be very disturbing to her... . Because Cim feels situations intensely, she relates easily to others' problems... . Cim has a strong need for affection. She thrives on touching and being touched. Cim desires being told that she is loved, every day. wow. ( whole paragraph )

she might be willing to open up and be warm, but only in small groups or a select group of people. 

When  she  is busy... focus is incredible.  When she says she didn't hear you... really, she didn't hear you. it drives me crazy when wax talks to me when i'm reading.  i like to read a book near her, in the livingroom, but when i'm there she wants to tell me about the cool stuff she reads, and i don't want to crush this because actually i love that she wants to share things with me, and i like that companionable feeling; but the inner accountant who's busy focusing every molecule on the text is crossing its arms over its chest, tapping its foot and huffing steam from its nostrils.  sometimes if i've really been concentrating it takes over and makes me do something pointed and rather mean.

cats vs kids--what's cuter?

wax and i were talking.  she said most women think that human babies are cuter than cats, because i said it didn't make evolutionary sense for us to find cats cuter.  that had honestly never occurred to me.

[Poll #366976]

ahahahaha, lumiere/cogsworth. (of course nemo/gill wasn't the only disney slash out there... .) rec

of clocks and candles by sara.  lumiere/cogsworth.  quite short, rather pretty and sweet, pg.

link stolen from, i think, permetaform.

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aja pointed us to write_right, which, she's right, is an excellent idea and well worth checking out.  it's full of grammar lessons and exercises such as might be found in a textbook, and most people could use something like that.

i am your missionary zeal, i said, i don't believe in sin

feeling extremely sick after consuming a lot of burnt, lumpy powdered soup*. have now taken pepto-bismol and gas medication.  going to lie in bed with a novel, a cup of peppermint tea**, and, hopefully, one or more cats.  and my shame.

*cheese and broccoli.

**excellent for soothing the digestive system unless the very smell of it makes you*** want to barf.

***e.g., wax.