A few days ago @animal posted a snarky remark about me on twitter –

Animal @Sourcerer You remind me of someone I spoke about on my show yesterday see Twitter Followers http://is.gd/7cWj (That’s not good by the way) 8:14 AM yesterday from web in reply to Sourcerer

It pissed me off but I’m a big believer in the “post in haste…regret for the rest of your google indexed life” motto (whereas @animal obviously has never had an unuttered thought) and I was running out the door for my big meeting with the Frangoman so I just blew it off. When I got home I found this DM waiting -

Curt [@CurtRosengren] thinks I hurt your feelings or might of. I was just kidding around with you. He knows me from earlier in my blogging career. early 2004

Recruiting Animal / Animal

I replied -

Animal it did push my buttons but then I listened to your show and after 2 min I had to go take migraine meds and blocked the whole experience :-? about 20 hours ago

He said -

Hey, I like that. Can I use it on my review page?

She said -

Animal Sure…go ahead…it’ll be my good deed/public service warning of the day. about 20 hours ago

Yadda, yadda, yadda…it was, as Peter Lorre would say, the beginning of a beautiful friendship. When I described my “unfocused life” (what he had been ragging on me about) as chaos theory in action he wrote -

Are you a recruiting sourcer or a tea leaf sourceress. your profile shares a bit of that chaos you mentioned

And I wrote back the following and was so pleased with my own eloquence that I had to share it with you all here -

So…here’s the scoop. I’m a consultant providing competitive intelligence research to support recruiting, business development, and marketing. Check out my LinkedIn or Biznik profiles for that type of thing. I’ve had a lot of experience sourcing but I really prefer business development and marketing…hence my new position with Archer & Associates. I’m also a writer of local histories…just getting my website up on that, have my second book being released December 8th. And…when I was a child I lived across the street from a woman who used to be in the carney and she taught me to read tea leaves…there’s a psychic streak that runs through the women in my family (my sister is an astrologer and we both worked as phone psychics for awhile)…I used to read the leaves a lot but haven’t too much lately…then I ended up reading leaves at the NW Tea Festival for Steve Baker to support his Three Tea Tour and had a blast so now (in my spare time hahaha) I’m trying to do more of that. Back in the day I used to do mental health triage and I used to say I was like an air traffic controller…I got people and their baggage where they needed to go without crashing. Information is out there and, as John Perry Barlow says, it wants to be free. I believe I have a talent for accessing and interpreting information and helping people see how it can be the catalyst for making good decisions. Sometimes you find the right information in the strangest of places ;-)