Waiting for the caffeine to kick in...

I had to play with http://mindmedia.com/brainworks/profiler. Lifted from obsessedwelves.

It's only 20 questions, but took a while because I dithered - and hey - for good reason: 50/50 left brain/right brain. Makes sense. 71% visual learner (vs. auditory). That interested me because I couldn't help wondering whether it would have been different before some six years of distance learning. I do think I'm about equally likely to remember something someone said as something they wrote, and the tone of voice stays too.

( The 'summary' - some interest for comparison purposes, possibly  )

Is it just me or am I not the only one who appears a little indecisive here? (It's true that I am indecisive! Decisively so!) Oh, wait - is that supposed to mean that I downplay my creative aspect rather than my indecisiveness? Yes, duh. But I'm not a nasty pragmatist type who doesn't appreciate creativity in others - appreciate it enormously. Feeling that anxiety again...

Not so many books on one side, but on the other...

So, there's a 'what books are you reading' meme going around the blogs and of course it couldn't have hit when I was reading hot-off-the-press and everyone's panting to get hold of them books, but when I was dutifully postponing a most tempting stash for course reading. Not sure where this actually started but I was tagged by Wendy from Blog from the Windowsill, whose reaction to being tagged made me laugh. A kindred spirit indeed (though I'm not in the middle of an Anne reread yet!)

Books I'm reading are Peter Pan, which just doesn't get any less weird on a reread. At all. I drift between real discomfort and rather cheerful bemusement. Stuck with an online read for now of McDonald's The Princess and the Goblin, though I should have a proper book tomorrow. I could have sworn I read both it and The Princess and Curdie as a child, but I seem to be wrong. (Relative reading pleasure response will be postponed until it's book-in-hand vs book-in-hand.) Also intermittently reading What Katy Read, by Shirley Foster and Judy Simons, Written for Children by John Rowe Townsend, and Secret Gardens, by Humphrey Carpenter.

In the unpublished sphere (that's surely the title of a good story!), there's very exciting beta-reading, but I won't include that as it's just too gloatey.

So - a lot more classics on the TBR pile, but in the new category - on my floor, the trunk by the window, somewhere en route to me from the States and in Charlie's house I have (in no order, except as I think of them): Breathe, by Penni Russon (sequel to Undine); The Green Glass Sea, by Ellen Klages, Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse, Rick Riordan, The Tide Knot, Helen Dunmore, Peter Pan in Scarlet, Geraldine McCaughrean, The Phoenix Dance, Dia Calhoun, Senrid, by Sherwood Smith, London Calling (? I think that was in the stack of books Michele kindly loaned me?); Devilish, by Maureen Johnson, The Queen of Cool, Cecil Castellucci; I Am the Wallpaper & Lemonade Mouth by Mark Peter Hughes... I'm feeling weak at the thought of all those lovely books! Oh, and just remembered Charlie also has China Mieville's Un Lun Dun and Shamanka, by Jeanne Willis for me, both of which he reviewed. And I've probably forgot some at that.

Who to tag, who to tag... Will have to see who's been tagged already first - probably everyone!
[ETA - I haven't seen MotherReader tagged yet, though I may have missed it, or Jen Robinson's Book Page, or (eech - I'm forgetting already the other two on a list of four) or Bookshelves of Doom? Have I missed them, or have they really not been tagged, but because they've all vowed bookly curses on anyone tagging them for memes? Little Willow/slayground ? Not sure anyone will see them here anyway! But I've done my taggley duty.]