Non Sequitors

(Alternative Title: When You Are Low on Energy and Time, This is What You Post)

I found this months ago and while I am not a communicator per se, a number of the items listed below (bolded) strike a chord. From a communicator’s blog:

You know you’re a communicator when…

You put together a “you know you’re a communicator when…” list while sitting in traffic in a hot taxi cab.

You have this silly little grin on your face when you hear people say on the elevator: “that was an AWESOME speech (or e-mail) from the CEO”—because more than likely, you or one of your colleagues wrote it.

You’re willing to put your marriage on the line by continually correcting your spouse’s grammar.

After 10 years in the profession, your family and friends still don’t understand what you do.

There’s nothing better in the morning than your coffee and getting your news fix for the day.

You ponder for hours the irony of the phrase “elevator speech,” given that most of the time in and around elevators, no one says a word or make a sound.

You still get nervous anytime you have to launch a company-wide e-mail.

You start a family newsletter, quit doing it after two months…then start it up again a few months later. It’s a continual cycle.

You take the photos that “supermom” e-mails to all the preschool parents and create a video slideshow with background music and cool transitions and send it back out to one-up her.

I will also add the following:

• You get excited at finding typos in published novels and magazines 
• You don’t notice scenery or graphics but instead keep your eyes peeled for errors on roadsigns and notices
• You evaluate the worthiness of an organisation based on the grammatical correctness of its written materials
• You are always, always finding text to amend on written copy, and get near heart attacks when typos and errors slip through (and they usually do, slippery eels that they are)

Well, there’s always room for Grammatical Correctness, one hopes, as Political Correctness gets shooed out of society’s doors.

Anyway, before you heave a sigh of relief, this entry is not done yet as I have to make up for lost posts (ideas swirl in the head, indignant narrative spurt out of the little grey cells, but unfortunately not when the fingers are on the keyboard).

Ms Bibliobibuli Sharon, already an enticing read, had to reel me in further by posting a link to this fun tool called The Typealyser which will read your blog and decide which personality type it belongs to. All you have to do is to type in your blog URL. Go on, try it. I did, several times, and each time, got The Haberdashery classified as:

INTP – The Thinkers

The logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications. They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about.

As I said, The Typealyser is a playful vanity outlet for bloggers and their blogs, though am not sure if The Haberdashery agrees to the above, or if she can preen with it.

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