I may post two of these per day since I’m getting through them more quickly than I thought. I had originally planned to do 3 statements per day, but I’m nearly a week ahead right now. 

22. You are definitely not an artistic type of person 

I beg your pardon! All kidding aside, I’m not sure where on the spectrum of left brain v right brain I fit. (I know, I know, there’s no such thing… but in the common parlance.) I feel connected to almost any creative outlet that I come across and as a professional artist, I am absolutely an artistic person. But I also have a connection to the logical part too. Admittedly I’m not as adept at logic, found in its purest form in math, at which I’m terrible, as other people. In fact, math and I haven’t been on speaking terms since 5th grade and long division. We traded some words, hard feeling ensued… I’d rather not talk about it.  

But I don’t fit fully on the creative side either. There are a lot of traits of creative people, such as wanting to dress up for comic-con, that I don’t seem to have…. at all.  

I went to NY once for work, where I was attending a training on drawing the Ni-Hao, Kai-Lan series. I knew one of the other invited artists through some work I had done at LeapFrog, and so we decided to spend some free-time hanging out together. He told me that even if he weren’t being paid for art, he would still be doing it anyway since he loved it so much. He mentioned I probably felt the same way. I thought about it and said probably not. I don’t know if I would be doing art if no one were paying me for it. Now I know artists who do almost nothing else. Even in their downtime, they are drawing, painting, working on projects. I do this stuff because I get paid. But I don’t do it on my free-time. I have other things I want to do.  

But I love music, and it was never enough for me to just listen to it. I had to want to play it. I play guitar and bass, and I used to mess with keyboards when I lived at my parents’ house. But since I don’t have the time to try and restart the keyboard, the one I have now is just sitting in my closet. In fact, I should sell that… but I digress… 

I was always good at the creative writing and literature part in English classes, and terrible at the sentence diagramming.  

23. You think the world would be a better place if people relied more on rationality and less on their feelings 

Well, having looked at the question in more detail now, I really don’t accept the binary presented here. I do think that in general, we need to be more thoughtful, and particularly more respectful and forgiving in dealing with others, especially those with different viewpoints. Even if I don’t agree with someone, I should start from the position that they aren’t idiots and have reasons for why they believe what they believe. Listen to them and find out. It might even further inform my own position. 

24. You prefer to do your chores before allowing yourself to relax 

I’ll lean slightly towards this statement.  

When moving, I can’t really stop until everything is set up. 

When eating, I tend to eat the stuff I don’t like before the stuff I do. I used to eat all the wheaty parts of the lucky charms first, so I’d have all marshmallows left. When I eat pop-tarts, I eat the edge that doesn’t have any frosting and leave the frosted parts until the end. Now that I’m older and my mom isn’t around to make me eat everything before I can get up from the table, I’ll just eat what I want and toss the rest, but even now, if I like everything, but like one thing more, I’ll tend to save it for last. I think this all  translates into a general desire to get the parts I prefer less out of the way. And I definitely prefer relaxing to chores.  

But I will also certainly take a break in the middle of a chore I need to do. So I do prefer to do the chores first, but I’m not compulsive about it at all.