Metajournaling

[tmcg]

Finally downloaded the LJ archive tool that akaspeedo pointed me toward. It's great, and comes with some fun tools, one of which is Regressive Imagery Analysis.

Top 3 Categories
Regressive Imagery Analysis for irongall's journal
Compared to: Everyone

Sound		97.8%
Hard		100.0%
Expressive Behavior		90.9%

What does this mean?
 

Bottom 3 Categories
Regressive Imagery Analysis for irongall's journal
Compared to: Everyone

Anality		21.1%
Consciousness Alteration		18.1%
Abstraction		22.4%

What does this mean?
 

Root Categories
Regressive Imagery Analysis for irongall's journal
Compared to: Everyone

Primary		78.5%
Secondary		23.5%
Emotions		61.3%

What does this mean?
 

Primary Process
Regressive Imagery Analysis for irongall's journal
Compared to: Everyone

Drive		21.1%
Sensation		99.4%
Defensive Symbolization		82.5%
Regressive Cognition		52.0%
Icarian Imagery		52.3%

What does this mean?
 

Secondary Process
Regressive Imagery Analysis for irongall's journal
Compared to: Everyone

Abstraction		22.4%
Social Behavior		81.2%
Instrumental Behavior		30.1%
Restraint		63.8%
Order		64.0%
Temporal References		27.9%
Moral Imperative		39.2%

What does this mean?
 

Emotions
Regressive Imagery Analysis for irongall's journal
Compared to: Everyone

Positive Affect		51.7%
Anxiety		28.2%
Sadness		46.9%
Affection		25.7%
Aggression		86.3%
Expressive Behavior		90.9%
Glory		64.3%

What does this mean?
 

It will also do a word count analysis.

Excluding "post" (64), "link" (55), and "someone" (50), here are the words that appear most frequently:

music 66
maybe 62
session 58, sessions 23
playing 53
actually 53
cool 53
thanks 49
stuff 45
irish 44
york 43 (presumably "new" was excluded as a common word)
bush 42

Some words I've used only once: plague, scab, fiddlers, plumbers, assassin, spoilerphobic, bugger, Organians.

The word "fuck" appears only 11 times. Clearly I don't journal the way I speak in person. *g*

The word "hell" appears 29 times, only slightly less frequently than the words "tune" (30) and "tunes" (31).

I resolve to stop saying "actually" and "cool," and to find more reasons to mention Organians.

Comments

[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

What does the imagery analysis purport to tell you?

[akaspeedo.livejournal.com]

Nevermind, I went back and looked at the introduction on the archive program ;)

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

I'm still not entirely sure what most of the imagery analysis tells me, but it's intriguing and a lot of it sounds impressive.

Thanks again for the pointer to the software. It really is searchable! That's so useful.

[(Anonymous)]

I've been trying to drop 'just' from my vocabulary, but I don't think I can quit using 'actually' at the same time since the two of them (just and actually) are, like, my mainstay words.

I don't think I've ever used 'fuck' on my weblog, which is probably an oversight I need to remedy soon :-)

Glad to see you're around again!

Deb

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Yes, "just" is on my list, too! And I didn't need a word-count analysis to tell me that I overuse that one. I find it everywhere in my writing, sometimes in several places in a single paragraph. Gah.

Going cold-turkey on two mainstay words would be a bit much, though, I agree.

Maybe I'll just work on "actually" while you actually cut down on "just."

[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

What an incredibly cool thing. I'll have to give it a download from home when I get there. My word usage alone interests me, and the rest too.

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

It downloaded my whole journal very fast--much easier than downloading entries to CSV files through LJ itself, plus it grabs comments, and everything's searchable. Very handy.