purple haze

It's outside, among the clouds, stewing in the atmosphere, and inside--looking out, the sheer curtains give all that touches the light a purple glow. Los paredes, las almohadas, las velas-- mi vida esta morada.
I was taking a break from studying earlier and decided to get a *free astrological personal profile* of myself, all thanks to my junk mail and boredom. Here's what it says:

Birth Data for Kim:
Birth Date........... December 24, 1982
Birth Location..... Kingston, PA
Sun Sign............ Capricorn

Your Reading:

Serious, disciplined, and quietly ambitious, you are driven to prove yourself and to achieve material accomplishments and success. Your work, your position in the world, and your contributions to society are very important to you. You will persevere through enormous hardship and frustration in order to reach a goal you have set for yourself, and you often sacrifice much in the area of personal relationships and home life in order to do so.
You have a thoughtful, quiet, and self-contained disposition and do not readily show your inner feelings and needs. You seem to be always in control, capable, efficient, and strong. You are often the person in the family or group who is given more responsibility (and more work) than the others. You are highly conscientious and even as a child you possessed great maturity, soberness, and worldly wisdom.
You are clear-headed, detached and objective, and are not swayed by emotional dramatics. Often you are authoritarian -strictly fair, but without mercy. You have a great respect for tradition and even if you do not agree with certain laws, you will abide by them or work to change them, but never flagrantly disregard them. Careful and conservative, you play by the rules. You are subtle, understated, quiet, deep, not easy to know intimately, and never superficial. You are a modest person and sometimes overly self-critical. Giving yourself (and others) permission to feel, to play, to be spontaneous and silly, and to be weak and vulnerable sometimes, isn't easy for you. Your strong points are your depth and thoroughness, patience, tenacity, and faithfulness. Your faults are a tendency to be rigid and inflexible, and too serious.
You have a healthy amount of self-control and self-discipline. You also radiate a rather responsible, trustworthy, solid feeling about yourself which will win you the confidence of others, especially your superiors.
Gentle, idealistic, and peace-loving, you often seek to avoid the hard realities of life. You undergo deep, transformative changes in your life with relative ease and a minimum of conscious resistance. Because you don't avoid the depths, you have access to a lot of personal power and strength. Without realizing it or seeking it, you're apt to have quite a potent effect on the people you come into contact with, even superficially. Others sense that you're a force to be reckoned with. You are also a good strategist, and will plan and patiently follow a realistic course which will lead to your eventual success. Serious-minded and studious, you enjoy quiet time alone for thinking or reading. You have the ability to please and harmonize well with others and tend to ameliorate relationships between people. Your sense of humor, tact, and personal charm are of great benefit to you in any work with people on a one-to-one level.

Well, now that's over... there were more than a just a few contradictions in there, but some things appear to be somewhat accurate, I guess. I don't know if it told me anything I didn't already know, and they make these things so they'll work for anyone. How else can you explain astrology? Awwww, hell... that was a bit of a diversion, wasn't it? Even if you don't take this crap seriously, you can't deny that it's at least a bit fun sometimes. Now back to the books.
k