As part of staff development last week at school, we took a personality assessment known as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter. (Take it here.) The KTS classifies into 16 different personalities based on four dimensions: introvert-extrovert, intuitive-sensing, feeling-thinking, judging-perceiving. I always enjoy these kinds of activities. My assessment ( Read more... )

Today, I received good news about a paper I'd written for my recent grad school class, but for the first time in a long while, I'd been very nervous about something I'd written. It's that comfortable old dread, that sudden realization of the possibility that one has labored hard and still produced a dud. As I clicked through the university's ( Read more... )

A few years ago, I made a statement that got people quite unexpectedly riled up. I said that not much exciting tends to happen in my stories, plot-wise. Ho boy, did people jump to defend me against myself, arguing that stories like Another Man's Cage were actually quite involved in terms of plot and very exciting in that regard. At the time, it ( Read more... )

I've decided to take the 100 Things challenge. (Just what I need! Something else to add to my to-do list! Luckily I have forever to finish it, which those of you waiting for me to finish things can all attest is about how long it usually takes.)


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