From the way they write. Journals or posts or emails.

Now, I'm not so good with emails, right? Right.

But I was thinking - I wonder if people really do twig onto what you're like in person by the things you say and the way you write.

So, if you came to my house for coffee or tea, lemonade or vodka martinis, coke on ice or hot chocolate - or whatever .... what would you expect to find?

I'm going to answer every post with what I'd expect to find based on what you expect to find. A little game of amateur kitchen psychology.

What say you? I'm in the mood to have some fun. Come on, eh?

Catherine

-- Catherine (catherine@cmjcom.com), October 28, 1999

Answers

Now, now. I'm respondig so that I can get a reply from you. I would expect to see many bookshelves with literature and computer programming or HTML books. There would also be some self-help books and art books. Your would probably have a stack of legal and medical papers sitting on a table somewhere collecting dust while you procastinate on what to do with them. There would be a tea cup and pack of cigarettes sitting next to the computer along with some negatives and your sony digital camera real close by.

You would be listening to some jazz music like maybe Diana Washington at night when your thinking about the future, or maybe Ella Fitzgerald on a sunny morning. You would probably fix a great italian meal with a red burgandy wine for dinner. And most important is that I would notice how improtant your kids are to you and the loving relationship they have for you to.

Talk to you later and take care

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Hi Dale ... Catherine here ...

Well, I do have lots of books - you're right about that - but not many on programming or HTML. I cheat on those things these days - and as my book collection (fiction, mostly) grew I started to get rid of the old programming books.

Heh - yup - I have some art books and some self help stuff. Which I never read. D'oh, eh?

I'd more likely cook a roast beef - but could do the Italian, too. Heh.

Now you ... hmmmm .... I'd say you're very friendly, in a make-people-at-home sort of way so you'd probably offer me stuff to eat and drink right away.

Then you'd show me some of your things. The things that are important to you. I think you like to share that way. You have a lot of pictures and mementos, I bet.

Um I'd say your house is comfortable in a cluttered (but clean) sort of way - with a lot of things about. Travel and picture books, literature/new-agey sort of stuff - I'm thinking.

I bet you like to talk. We'd talk all bloody night - heh.

Light furniture and decor?

Okay, the psychic needs to change a load of laundry. Heh.

Catherine

-- Dale Wilkins (wsu737x@gte.net), October 28, 1999.

Ummmm....lot of photography books and magazines. Ten zillion projects started and as of yet unfinished, in a lot of different areas. Fine art prints--Van Gogh? Klee? Fiction is mostly paperback, and well- thumbed. Coffee cups left on the tables. Pizza rolls in the freezer, for a quick snack for the kids.

--Al, guessing like mad. Nova Notes.

Hey Al ... Catherine here

That's pretty amazing. Pretty accurate - right down to the Pizza rolls in the freezer. Not a lot of fine art prints, though - um - just one or two. ALmost all my art is original by Canadian Artists - or numbered prints - I favor prairie artists. Otherwise - you're a good guesser.

Now, it I were to go to your house .... BUSY comes to mind mostly. Shoes, lots of them, by the front door. Books and papers and stuff on the tables and counters. Your comics somewhere in a closet.

Comfy eating area? Like a meeting place?

I see lots of family pictures on your walls.

Disorderly CD collection. Heh.

Catherine Wheee! This is fun.

-- Al Schroeder (al.schroeder@nasvhlle.com), October 28, 1999.