Examining Personality Types

Since Jay's posts were back-to-back, I have decided to add pictures to mine to make up for not following the correct posting procedure. The two figures above are talking about the different personality types. I think it would be a good idea for Jay and I to complete this assessment. While it gives an individual a clearer picture as to how their personality is constructed, it has also been used in marriage counseling to help the couple understand each other better. For example, one spouse may like to tell long, drawn out stories while the other likes to get to the point of the story. The story teller spouse may get frustrated when the "get to the point" spouse wants to rush the story along, appearing like the story is unimportant. Most likely, this kind of situation will not have a positive result. However, if each person in the relationship has a better understanding of how the other communicates and thinks, the result may have a happier ending.

Before we delve into the different personality types (INFP, ETSJ, etc.), I'll give you some of the basics.
There are 4 dimensions of personality type:
1. E/I=how we interact with the world and where we get our energy from
2. N/S=How we gather information
3. T/F=How we make decisions
4. J/P=whether we prefer to live in a structured way or spontaneously

The E stands for extraversion. These people get energy by being with others.
The I stands for intraversion. These people get energy from alone time.
The N stands for intuition. These people are imaginative and dreamers.
The S stands for sensing. These people are detail oriented.
The T stands for thinking. These people are objective and logical.
The F stands for feeling. These people are tender hearted.
The J stands for judging. These people are structured and organized.
The P stands for perceiving. These people are spontaneous.

My personality type came out to be an ESFJ. I wonder what Jay will be... Any guesses? I'll have to give him the assessment this week and post the results.

I'll have to see if I can find a test online that is similar to the Myers and Briggs' Personality Type Indicator. Although, nothing can beat going to a counselor to have your results interpreted!

Study Break

It's technically Wendy's turn to post, but she got out of it by re-doing the layout. She's joined the ranks of xml-marker-uppers and put my html skillz to shame. (If you're reading this in Facebook, you're really missing out. Actually, if you're reading this at all, you're also missing out, but it's too late to worry about that.)

I'm in the middle of a take-home final right now, and it's been going pretty slow.
There are plenty of hints written into the questions, and I have notes to cover basically everything, but I guess I've gotten out of shape since the midterm.

I've started negotiations with a travel agent, but she wants a deposit immediately, and hasn't so much as sent me a picture of the place. I don't know if that's standard operating procedure, but after my experiences with booking other bargains, I'm a bit cautious. I don't tend to make decisions quickly, and fear of having to make them makes me put off beginning the deciding process, which makes them take longer still. In the end, my first instincts tend to be pretty good, but like the proverbial turkey for whom life gets better and better every day up until November 13, you can't always go by past experience.

Preparing the Nest

It's been six months since Wendy & I bought our house, and after me living here that long it's beginning to look like we're starting to think about moving in. We've got a couple dozen pictures framed, but they're all on the floor, since yours truly doesn't want to put holes into the walls until they're all paid for. That should only be twenty years or so, but by then we might have the technology to hang pictures in a non-destructive manner, or have enough projectors mounted on opposite walls to achieve the same effect. The attentive reader might find it odd that I'm more comfortable mounting electronics than hanging pictures, and the reason has to do with a preference for screws over nails. I've had more successes with screws: they're more adjustable, they don't bend, and they have a built-in undo mechanism. Nails are more of an art, and seem to be much more dangerous in my experience, what with the sharp point and the blunt object moving at high speeds.

It'd be much nicer to have pegboard walls in every room, or velcro or lego, for that matter, so that everything could be hanged and rehanged just as easily, without having to repaint. In case you're wondering, I'm even less skillful with liuqids than with sharp objects, and the possibility of having to repair a wall when one of us decides a picture needs to move makes me even more hesitant.

Eventually, and likely sooner than later, the danger of tripping over one of the picture frames will exceed the danger of one of them falling off the wall on one of us, and whichever of us ends up in charge of picture hanging will get to work on the implementation phase of that project. For now, though, there are plenty of pictures on the computer, and since we spend more time looking at those than walls anyway, it all works itself out.