July 22, 2007
Brian and I attended the Harry Potter Party at our local Border’s store. It was interesting. We waited from 8 PM until about 1:30 AM to get our book. We had fun seeing all the little kids play the games - they had a Harry Potter spelling bee, the Great Snape Debate (Friend or Foe), a costume contest, and some other stuff… We sat down in the foreign language section and read our books and walked around. Then we went through a monstrous queue of people that did not make sense but in the end we got our book, some glow sticks, and a poster. We also picked up an interesting Chinese book and a Vegetarian Sushi book for me.
We really did not try to read the book until yesterday - and even then we were trying to share. Being an only child, I am not very good at sharing (Brian is not either but he claims to be good at sharing) - basically, it ended up being that neither of us got much time with the book. So, last night I read the book from 12:30 - 3 AM and finished it. It was a quick and easy read but I found it somewhat disappointing, really. I knew I needed to read it anyway and get it out of my system because it would have been too distracting otherwise. At any rate, now I am finished with Harry Potter & Sherlock Holmes - the latter of which saddens me. However, I have since moved on to more scholarly works such as D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow. I am enjoying it already.
If anyone comes across any scholarly works pertaining to Sherlock Holmes or at least something more than fan fiction (I detest fan fiction.) please let me know.
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July 6, 2007
Last night, we were attempting to watch Sherlock Holmes (The 6 Napoleons) when termites started coming through the windows and began swarming around the television. Of course, we had to turn everything off but then more and more started coming into my work studio. We had to kill them one by one while they attempted to get into everything. Brian was also spraying poison everywhere (yuck). On top of that, we had to sit in the living room in the dark for three hours afterwards because they kept coming. We played Gin by citronella candlelight. We thought we were safe since the living room is not usually a room they come into - but not this time. Brian kept feeling things on his legs - we both thought we were being paranoid but we turned on the light and saw a ton of wingless termites crawling on the carpet. We promptly used the cards to throw them into the candle flame. Today, we will be spending the day making sure they did not infiltrate all my fabric. Fun. Our housekeeper was just here on the 4th and now the house is already in disrepair. Yuck.
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June 29, 2007
For the first time in many months all of my email has been answered and attended to and I have nothing - absolutely nothing - in my inbox. Today has been extraordinarily hectic to say the least. I had a bushel of emails to answer, 140 lbs of fabric being delivered, a seamstress with a broken sewing machine who needed to use my not so great sewing machine, a seamstress dropping off bags, a seamstress attempting to sew bags after showing up really really late when I had an appointment to go to, a hair appointment, a purchase of a new sewing machine, website work, and other things I cannot even remember.
The sewing machine that I bought is a Brother with an onboard computer. It does a number of fancy stitches that might come in handy for something. More importantly it is all computerized and handles a myriad of details so that I do not have to think about them.
My seamstress got absolutely nothing done today. She sat in my office and yapped and I got almost nothing done except for a few emails. She also brought her son who was loud and obnoxious. I seriously don’t need that in my office.
At least tomorrow I can watch two uninterrupted hours of Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles) - that will be a welcome relief.
But tonight, we will do our regular workout of pain after this exhausting day.
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June 25, 2007
After reading Volume I of the Sherlock Holmes tales I moved onto Volume II and began the ever popular Hound of the Baskervilles. It is probably my least favorite novella of the series since Dr. Watson is really the main character. I could see the appeal for most people since Dr. Watson (ISFJ) is far more approachable than Holmes (INTJ). It is really not until the end that Holmes makes an official appearance and then it is only to explain the who, what, when & where to all parties involved. I prefer the tales of Holmes and Moriarty to these silly stories though.
I seem to be strangely sleepy today. More sleep is required. More later…
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June 17, 2007
We are all INTJs, that is what.
I have had a growing interest in Sherlock Holmes (as I have mentioned in a previous post) and I have been reading all of the short stories and novellas written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Brian and I have also watched The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 5 DVD set and it is quite excellent. I have much enjoyed reading the stories and then see them play out on film. In some ways the film version is entirely different because it is not so much from the perspective of Watson like the books are - this does give the watcher an advantage in being able to more closely follow along in the story and it provides more clues earlier on in the story.
I also happened upon a discussion thread on how most villains in stories seem to be INTJs while the hero tends to be ISTJ or INTP.  I found this to be a bit of interesting speculation. Brian and I were just discussing how it is interesting that both Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty are both INTJs who have profound respect for the other’s intellect but at the same time they are both the other’s arch nemesis. It is clear that one has chosen ‘good’ and the other ‘evil’ and they fight it out at Riechenbach Falls. As I mentioned to Brian - INTJs seem to fight it out amongst one another but assert dominance over other types. Really, this is the reason I stay away from INTJ message boards and discussion groups. This is really the sort of thing I would like to have a conversation with another INTJ about but INTJs almost as a rule seem to hate each other and are almost unable to have a cohesive and useful conversation with one another.
I also find this sort of thing interesting because I (and Brian too) are interested in INTP and INTJ interactions since almost nothing exists about how these two types function together. I think at one time we had discussed making a profile of INTP and INTJ interactions…
More later, on some topics…
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