So at the event I went to yesterday I was talking to someone and they described me as "extroverted" and I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing. That is a word I would never use to describe myself, but when I thought about it he was probably reacting to my body language, since I try to avoid crossing my arms in front of myself and similar body language that closes me off from people. It later occurred to me that since I naturally am an introvert I've gotten really good at faking extroversion.

This event itself was frankly kind of boring, and mainly directed at older people. It was about LinkedIn, and it mostly seemed to be explaining the site to people who don't know how to use it, and I'm pretty sure I was the youngest person in the room next to my friend, who's a year older, and I was the only '12 grad. We both agreed that most of what they said was stuff we've figured out intuitively from using the site, so it's a generation thing. Everyone did burst out laughing when one woman interrupted another question to ask how to remove people from your LinkedIn connections.

Today I took my socials security card to the temp people, so now I've got all my paperwork in. With any luck I won't need to use their services, but it can't hurt. I did get a bit lost since their office is in the Financial District and it's hard for me to navigate because of all the tall buildings, but I eventually found it.

ETA: My mom sent me a link to an article about INFJs, who apparently can read as extroverts, and it has some interesting stuff.

Subject line is sarcastic in case you couldn't tell.

We had our usual family shindig today at my grandmother's house. I came down at 10:30 to help my aunt and grandmother set the things up and do the sort of manual labor that's hard for them, and they paid me at the end of the day. Overall it was enjoyable though I still can't keep the cousins straight (and trust me, there are many) but I nearly flipped my shit at one point.

So this little 6 or so year old girl who is somehow distantly related to me (third cousin or somesuch) comes up to me, and the first thing she says is "Why are you dressed like a boy?" This made me do a bit of a double take, since I don't think I was dressed especially masculine today (brown short-sleeved blouse, jeans and my black heeled boots) but trying to be gentle I said that it's how I prefer to dress. She then started on this thing about how girls are supposed to wear skirts and dresses and pink and blah blah blah the usual gendered crap, but I just tuned it out. Amusingly only one woman at this party was wearing a skirt, and that was my mom.

But then it got worse. This girl picks up her little iPod with its speakers and starts playing that godawful "I Kissed A Girl" song. But then, then she turns to me, starts giggling, and says "She kissed another girl, isn't that weird?"

So let me recap. She not only insulted my gender identity and started playing a song that I abhor, but she then went and insulted my orientation when just last week I locked lips with Sara. It was the perfect storm of things to piss me off. At that point I reminded myself that strangling a 6 year old girl is not a wise course of action and retreated.

I know that at that age they just parrot what other people have said, but UGH!

There's also the fact that I can only take so may people at one time, and near the end there I was reaching my limit. I was pretty exhausted by the time I got out and a bit punchy, but I usually don't have to deal with so many people at once.

But to paraphrase something my dad would say, family are the only people who have to let you in when you knock on the door at 1 in the morning.

Good God, am I the only person at the University who's not stressed out about finals to the point of sequestering myself in my room to study or off in town/at home screwing around? I haven't seen any of my roommates in about two days since they went home, and while it's a bit nice to have the room to myself it makes me aware of how big this room is, and, believe it or not, it's a bit lonesome. Yes, this coming from me, a huge introvert.

Seriously, it's dull here. I spent some time prepping for my CrimJ final (mainly reading stuff over and brushing up on a few terms I was unsure about) but now I have nothing else to do. I went over to someone I know to knock on the door, and the exact words that came from the other side were:

"Can't talk. Must study. Finals will kill me!"

*tilts head* Ok. Everyone doing that, however, has the net effect of this place being incredibly boring. Not to mention the fact that the University mandates 24 hour "quiet hours" which cut down on the usual wacky occurrences under penalty of being written up. Not to sound dramatic, but it's too quiet.

I did go to the Arlington St. church today and help out in the kitchen again. John, one of the guys there and an all around nice person, made very good lentil soup, and with the suggested donation basket we took in about $80 for the church. I was talking to John's wife Wendy as we were serving hot dogs and soup and I mentioned my major, and she pointed out that my major and minor (sociology and philosophy respectively) are very very UU. I hadn't thought of that, but she's exactly right!

Meanwhile, I will find someone and rope them into a Guitar Hero tournament (borrowing roommate B's game and controllers using my PS2) before I go batshit insane.

Now that our cable box is working properly again and giving us more than 24 channels (and yes I realize the irony that at home we don't even get that many on an antenna) I'm starting to remember why Jean Luc Picard is one of my role models. Most people seem to agree that Picard is an INTJ, so that might be part of why I gravitated towards him. That and Patrick Stewart is just awesome. ♥

That is all. Now I have to read part of a Civil War book for tomorrow.

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Warning: Has a brain and knows how to use it.

From here.

Rose, you exhibit an even balance between left- and right- hemisphere dominance and a slight preference for visual over auditory processing. With a score this balanced, it is likely that you would have slightly different results each time you complete this self-assessment quiz.

You are a well-rounded person, distinctly individualistic and artistic, an active and multidimensional learner. At the same time, you are logical and disciplined, can operate well within an organization, and are sensitive towards others without losing objectivity. You are organized and goal-directed. Although a "thinking" individual, you "take in" entire situations readily and can act on intuition.

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Seems to match up, and I am a Libra, after all, so the "balance" bit makes sense. ;)

In all seriousness, though, when I was younger I was oversensitive to some stuff, especially sound, though I've learned to control that over time. The variation between logic and impulse also seems to fit pretty well.

I finally did it. I'm making chocolate chip cookies. ^_^

I just sampled one, and they seem to have turned out well. The trick I heard about putting in a bit of milk to make them softer also appears to have worked, so I consider it a success. Yay for experimentation!

And randomly, took this while looking at stuff on intj_


Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

I sort of expected that, if not the character then the type. I do tend to identify with antiheroes *coughFuumacough* so it makes sense.

One more thing:



I usually end up as either an INTJ or INTP, depending mostly on my mood. I think it's a good combination, personally, and combines the amiability of a Virgo and the Judging of a Libra. I was born on the cusp, after all. ;)

I'm still "Rosemary-sempai" at least for the time being down at The Plant, though our three new people are getting better. I'm working mainly with an older girl named Ana, who's fairly nice and talkative. She also caught onto how to sell stuff really fast, though one thing keeps irking me (that's not in anyway her fault):

She's better at it than me, and I've been doing this for almost exactly a year. I don't really mind, it just bothers me that I'm lacking in that area. I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

One problem I have with that job is that I'm such an introvert that branching out and "selling up" as it's called is really hard for me. I'm not an especially confrontational person, and especially when I sense that someone's annoyed, having a bad day, really not wanting to spend more money I tend to not try to sell them up unless they really need it. Most of the time I'm pretty quiet and reserved, and while I think some people who go through like that I know that I don't do so well as far as sales go.

My strength is more in being the reliable person who does what other people (read: The Chump) don't and general upkeep. Jon has essentially said that I'm the most reliable person he has, but that might not be enough. I admit to being a bit nervous that the higher ups may decide that despite my merits I'm just not bringing in enough in terms of money, which would follow their usual pattern. I really hope not. I really don't want to have to look for work somewhere else. With any luck my role might shift to be less about sales now that we have more people. Maybe I'll bring that up next time I see Jon.

*sigh* I guess there was a reason that "salesman" was not listed on the ideal careers for INTJs page.