Lazy idle dithering Sunday

Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP)

Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant. Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving.

How Rare Is Your Personality?

I think I usually get this, or INTJ, depending on which direction the wind is blowing when I take the test.

Have committed some more lolthings (I admit I am helpless against my addiction...): two in lolauthors and one in lolhistory

Some linx

Catching from disrupted yesterday (between work, lj-outage, and DVD watching) with a few things from the Guardian Review.

Review of what sounds like it might be an interesting book: Friendship and Betrayal: Ambition and the Limits of Loyalty, three studies of friendships among the powerful. Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill - it's almost a pity they didn't have LJ in those days.

Kathryn Hughes on a bio of Sylvia Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak, which asks an interesting question:

the problem that always arises with subjects like these is whether or not anyone still cares. Sylvia Brooke provides some quaint retro mileage - the nice clothes, the dirty sex, the casual racism - but is this quite enough?

Michael Holroyd on Shaw's St Joan: the suffragettes as a source of inspiration one could have guessed, but TE Lawrence does make a certain sort of sense.

Review of Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea, which makes it sound very like one of those big blockbusting beach reads of the 60s and 70s, where author took four girls/women of contrasting types and experiences, but with some factor bringing them into some sort of connection, and various kinds of angst, wackiness, romance, and so forth ensued, the proportions depending on the writer, the milieu and the characters.

Has anyone ever read any Margaret Buckley? There is a short notice of Fragments in the section on small press publications (second item), and the website about her and her works is here. Sounds intriguing.

Cooking

As was working yesterday, no breakfast rolls.

Today's lunch: two rather large halibut steaks hunted and gathered by partner, rubbed with Jamaican Jerk seasoning, brushed with avocado oil, and pan-seared; served with red quinoa, steamed tenderstem broccoli with ginger and fennel seed, and cherry tomatoes halves and dressed with salt, sugar, wild thyme and balsamic vinegar.

This week's bread: the Psomi loaf (with toasted sesame seeds) from Greenstein's Secrets of a Jewish Baker.