Impatient, Verbose, Lazy and Weird C’est Moi!

Posted by Jules Ritter on April 20th, 2008

I got my results back from the Branding Excercise.  Mr. Jules calmly saved the day as always.  I had, apparently also buggered up the log-in details….Now how was THAT possible?

Anyway unsurprisingly and in no particular order, here are the results:

  • ACTIVATOR - Your words frequently energize individuals or groups. (Bossy).  Often Impatient (figured that one out see previous blog).  Consider partnering with focused, futuristic, strategic, or analytical people – Mr. Jules!
  • CONNECTEDNESS – You yearn to dedicate yourself to worthy causes or noble purposes er…THIS BLOG?  Fortifying the bonds between yourself and the people you know or even those you will never meet gives your life special meaning. THAT’S YOU READER!
  • MAXIMISER -  You intentionally engage in activities that match your unique talents.  They have worked out I am lazy (note to self: check the house for hidden cameras).  It is true, my unique talents only come to the fore if I stay at home all day surfing the web (research) watching DVDs (more research) and napping (essential energy for the research).
  • COMMUNICATION – By nature, you expand your horizons and knowledge when you engage in group conversations.  Is that what they are calling it now?
  • FUTURISTIC - Your mind allows you to venture beyond the commonplace, the familiar or the obvious.  So it’s official, I am weird.

Of course the Branding Expert had a different take on it.

Copyright Jules Ritter April 2008

PS Out of respect for JonnyB and his loss there will be no more chicken jokes see www.privatesecretdiary.com.

My Writing Life 8 Comments

Nadia said,

April 21, 2008 @ 5:41 pm

But seriously, Jules, do you really need a “branding expert” to tell you what you already know about yourself? AND to get self-righteous about what they’re telling you??

And who says they really know what they’re talking about, eh? To start they’ve obviously got insanely complicated registration procedures set up to make the prospective client feel like an idiot and think s/he actually needs their services! It’s all a scam, run for the hills!!!!!

Oh, and JonnyB SHOT his chicken!!! Which means we must go back to chicken jokes because otherwise we’ll have to cry and then to report him for fowlicide if we take any of this seriously and never make chicken jokes again…

Jules Ritter said,

April 21, 2008 @ 6:06 pm

Er self-righteous? Not intentionally in any case, more self-deprecatory no?

Nadia said,

April 22, 2008 @ 11:01 pm

Ooooh no, no, no, YOU’RE not self-righteous, THEY are!!!

Sorry ’bout the confusing syntax, end of day and all that… was only happily taking potshots at the branding gurus, didn’t mean to offend in any way… :(

Can we discuss chickens again? Madonna? A combination thereof?

Argh now I feel awful… will go dive into the wine bottle in absolute contrition…

Diana said,

April 23, 2008 @ 6:13 am

OOOh YES I agree – chickens and Madonna. I had another look at the photo of the naked chicken and decided that aside from the macrobiotic food it must also have had a slice (or 2?) of Jules’ sinful chocolate cake – have you seen the protrusion around its navel?? And the skin colour?? It’s had more than one dive into the wine bottle!

Jules Ritter said,

April 23, 2008 @ 7:18 am

But I thought you would be INTERESTED in my journey! (wail).
Well I can see that you two are partnering up. Okay no more boring bits about branding unless something really funny happens involving branding and a chicken, branding and Madonna or branding and a chicken and Madonna. Come to think of it Naked Chicken definitely needs a branding make-over she’s only going one way fast looking like that.

Thanks for making me laugh today it has been an ‘orrible week watching the rain fall so bad that I have just eaten a pain au chocolat from the épicerie. Funnily enough on the way I passed the neighbours chickens who were today looking uncannily like Madonna post face lift ie., startled.

Martin said,

April 23, 2008 @ 7:58 am

There is, of course, an alternative definition of branding which came before the current “marketing speak”. Branding chickens must surely result in protests from the Chicken Liberation Front (and ours wouldn’t like it at all), as for branding Madonna ……

Jules Ritter said,

April 23, 2008 @ 12:34 pm

Enlighten us Martin

Martin said,

April 23, 2008 @ 2:17 pm

My pleasure!

A brand is a special mark or identifying design owned by a rancher and used in registering and identifying his/her cattle and horses (and chickens ?). A branding iron is the handmade iron or steel tool that applies the mark to the poor animal – no anaesthetic here! The end with the owner’s brand is pressed against the side of the animal after being heated to red hot in a fire in the corral.

Or, in other words, OUCH !

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