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[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

kind (comparative kinder, superlative kindest): Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.; Affectionate; Favorable; Mild, gentle, forgiving; Gentle; tractable; easily governed; (obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

( It's really rather kind to say that someone is kind )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Percy Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

careful (comparative more careful or carefuller, superlative most careful or carefullest): Taking care; attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.; Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.; (obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.; (obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.

( Tiptoeing through social interactions )

Current Mood: determined
Current Music: Dream Theater - Train of Thought

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

analytical (comparative more analytical, superlative most analytical): Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; Using analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic.

( Drilling down to discover root causes )

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: The Living Tombstone - Goose Goose Revolution

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

conscientious (comparative more conscientious, superlative most conscientious): Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance.; Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).

( When I realized my shortcomings, I built Systems )

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Avicii - Hey Brother

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

consistent (comparative more consistent, superlative most consistent): Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature. [from late 16th c. in the obsolete sense ‘consisting of’]; Compatible, accordant.; (logic) Of a set of statements: such that no contradiction logically follows from them.

( The Same As I Have Always Been, Even Though I have Changed )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Barenaked Ladies - One Week

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

informative (comparative more informative, superlative most informative): Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.; (in standards and specifications) Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.

( Where I talk a lot about power dynamics and how those biases shape what's information and what's opinion )

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: Babymetal - Gimme Chocolate

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

sympathetic (comparative more sympathetic, superlative most sympathetic): Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.; Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.; (of a person) Attracting the liking of others.; (construction) Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.; (relational) Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.; (of magic) A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence.; (sound) Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.; (neuroanatomy, neurology, relational) Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves.

( It is better to be liked than misrepresented )

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: They Might Be Giants - Particle Man

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

eclectic (comparative more eclectic, superlative most eclectic): Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.; Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.

( Do What Works, Fix What's Broke, Discard The Rest )

Current Mood: grumpy
Current Music: Yasunori Mitsuda - Forest of Cutting Shadows

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

hoopy: Really together person

From the third chapter of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the Douglas Adams work,) an entry in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the in-universe, slightly cheaper alternative to the Encyclopedia Galactica) talks about a specific character and uses some galactic slang to describe him.

"Hey, you sas that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."

"Knowing where your towel is" turns out to be an essential part of galactic travel, and especially so for those who hitchhike their way around on various ships, as Ford will demonstrate to Arthur Dent all throughout the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy.

( I don't really know where my towel is, but that's okay. )

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Daft Punk - Touch It / Technologic

[What's December Days this year? Taking a crowdsourced list of adjectives and seeing if I can turn them into saying good things about myself. Or at least good things to talk about.]

erudite (comparative more erudite, superlative most erudite): Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.

( An adjective for the well-read )

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: VNV Nation/Daft Punk - When Will We Get Lucky In The Future (Xenturion Prime)

What am I doing for December Days this year? I'm trying to think better things about myself and move my mental state from seeing myself and my life as a series of deficits and failures to achieve the impossible perfect goal toward a more strengths-based approach and trying to convince myself that because I am still here, and I am still holding down some sort of life, even in the face of all the things that are making it difficult for me, I am an accomplishment worth celebrating.

So I asked all of you to provide some adjectives to start with, and then I will turn them over in my head, based on their definitions, and then talk about what comes to mind from them. I'm doing a month-long love meme, from me to me, because I need it. The first one is, of course, about me and this name that I have carried with me for my Internet life.

silvery (comparative silverier, superlative silveriest): Resembling silver in color, shiny white.; Sprinkled or covered with silver.; Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.

( Start simple )

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Skunk Anansie - This Means War

I have a request. It's related to many things, but most obviously, it'll be related to this year's December Days posts.

I would like adjectives. Preferably, I would like adjectives that you associate with me. They don't have to be positive ones, even if I would like to hear the positive ones.

If you don't have adjectives associated with me, I would like adjectives you feel are associated with you. They don't have to be positive ones, but it may be a good exercise for you to think about the positive adjectives you associate with yourself.

Falling that (or not being willing to offer adjectives of me or yourself), I would like adjectives that you find interesting, important, odd, or that you might enjoy having someone generate a December Days post about.

Thank you for your help in contributing to this year's idea. The original I had isn't going to work, mostly because I have to decide whether I'm willing to accept someone's philosophical framing enough to figure out how to make their practical suggestions work for myself.

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: Orbital - The Box (30 Something Years Later Mix)

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Entries tagged with december days: a sea of adjectives

December Days 2022 #11: Kind

December Days 2022 #10: Careful

December Days 2022 #9: Analytical

December Days 2022 #8: Conscientious

December Days 2022 #7: Consistent

December Days 2022 #6: Informative

December Days 2022 #5: Sympathetic

December Days 2022 #4: Eclectic

December Days 2022 #3: Hoopy

December Days 2022 #2: Erudite

December Days 2022 #1: Silvery

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