I am such a C
Eyeris tricked me into saying the word. He was sitting next to me today and he turned to me and asked, "Are you still on hiatus?"
Without thinking, I replied, "Yes, I am" -- and then realised what I had just done!
"You tricked me!" I accused, whacking him in the arm.
Well, I did say I was NOT on hiatus, so I am not breaking my hiatus. Got it? ;)
I have just come back from interviewing somebody over the weekend and in the midst of writing my article, as usual I'm discovering about a dozen questions I should have asked. Or at least could have. You know, like when you find trains of thought you could have followed up on and ought to have pursued.
Sometimes this makes me frustrated. I think I have everything, all the information I could possibly want, and then I find out I've got loopholes all over the place, incomplete data, and it's irritating. I'm very perfectionistic sometimes and I like to have everything in my hands.
In this sense, I'm very much a "C" of the DISC test: a personality test I recently took. I'm actually an SC, which stands for "steadiness" and "compliance". According to the various profiles, an "S" person is dependable, predictable, deliberate, consistent, and basically boring. A "C" person is accurate, analytical, conscientious, careful, precise, systematic, organised, and basically a robot.
So basically it seems I'm a boring robot ;)
Anyway, when I told my housemates I was an SC, they said, "No way! Your room doesn't look like it belongs to a C!" Because my room always looks like a hurricane has just gone through it, and Cs are supposed to be ORGANISED! hahahahah
But when I'm all stressed out, I'm very much a C. For example, whenever I prepare to travel anywhere, I actually make lists. I kid you not. I, who will normally never ever make lists except on pain of death, will actually voluntarily make a list of all the stuff I need to bring. And even with the list, I still keep on worrying that I'll forget something vitally important.
Then, when I'm preparing to interview a celebrity, I like to have my hands on all the information I can get on the person. I have printed out reams and reams of stuff on the last two celebrities I interviewed, even when some of the details weren't very relevant to the focus of my article.
Moreover, if I don't have EVERYTHING before me, every last little detail, I cannot start writing a blasted article, even if it is just the price of some product that I am missing, which most people will tell me I can just add in later. No, I cannot start until I have absolutely everything I might possibly need before me.
Sometimes I do not know how I've survived as a journalist for 3 years.