The Keirsey Thang

January 5, 1998

I was bored yesterday, and since Jevim had gone off to help his father bleed the breaks on one of the cars, I went surfing around some of the pages here in the Wellesley neighborhood.

Kellie, who has this week's Wellesley Site of the Week, had a link to a page leading to a bunch of personality and IQ tests. Having seen many people post their Keirsey scores on a mailing list I used to subscribe to, I decided to take the test myself.

The outcome, for the most part, was unsurprising to me. I am an INFJ, or Introverted, iNtuitive, Feeling, Judging person. That's as opposed to an Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving person. The only surprise was that I am a Judging person rather than a Perceiving person. Want to take the test yourself? Here's where I found it: http://www.davideck.com/links/k-disc.html. The page with the collected IQ and personality links is http://www.davideck.com/online-tests.html

What's that? Yes, I took one of the "IQ tests" too... it wasn't an official test, just the "Mensa 30 minute workout" ... I failed to meet Mensa's standards though, ranking only in the 79th percentile. I could say that I was chatting with Jevim at the time and he distracted me... I was, but I doubt he had much effect on my score. I did think I would score higher, but I rushed through the test in 20 minutes and didn't think through all of them like I should have. I did terrible on most of the "pick the object that best fits the next member of the series", which really surprised me, and did fairly well on the math and language. Oh well... I don't care to be a member of Mensa anyway. Now, that's not saying I wouldn't like to be able to score that high... that's another story entirely. ;)

I wrote the first section of this entry in the car, so it's fairly short, and I'm typing it in a day late, so if I had more to say at the time, I really don't remember what. Jevim had told me yesterday morning about his appointment for this afternoon, and so I was worried about him, and in a very bad mood when Mom and I went down to Columbia to find her a new outfit for her Christmas present. Yes, she makes me wait until after Christmas, then drags me out to the mall where she tries to find something she wants (always clothes!) that "doesn't cost too much." GRRRR, I get so frustrated with that. I'll be glad when I have the excuse of being a thousand miles away, so I get to pick what I am going to give her for Christmas.

Anyway, she finally got upset enough on the way home with my short responses (she asked me if I wanted to go meet her "shrink" when we got home, and I told her no, I had a class that started and I needed to get to work on it). I don't want to meet her damned shrink! From what she's said, he wants to get ME coming in to him. I'm sorry, but I don't tell personal things to a total stranger.

Back to the subject, Mom said it was really hard to be cheerful when I kept treating her like everything she did was wrong. I didn't say anything she did was wrong; I just don't like her idea of what I'm supposed to do for Christmas for her, and I was more concerned about Jevim than anything. She'd asked me the night before if I wanted to go to Columbia yesterday; how was I supposed to know Jevim would tell me about the appointment the next morning? I would have put it off, but I wanted to be home today after he gets back.

I'm fed up with my mom and I just want to get away from her. That's about how Jevim is feeling about his family, at the moment, too. I wish I could move to Virginia with him this weekend.

Oh, speaking of moving... I told Jevim I was going to the bank, and I was going to put some money aside to start saving for my move when he graduates. He said he intended to help, since he'd be back at his job and have a decent income again. I figured he would, but I know how much it costs to move cross-country, at least if you have to hire a moving company. That's when he said he intended to come out and move me back there... we got to talking about that, and both got to bouncing a bit, in excitement. Granted, it's still almost 500 days away, but... *bounce* *bounce* I told him that if we didn't need the money for moving, we could always use it for new furniture or somesuch. Never hurts to have a little extra tucked away, right?

Mom's home with the groceries... TTYL...

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