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cosmic_celery) wrote2009-09-20 09:42 pm
cosmic_celery) wrote2009-09-20 09:42 pm
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So, I'm 21 now.
Last night I opened up a left-over fortune cookie and it had two fortunes in it! One said "A bold and dashing adventure is in your future" and the other one said "you will have good luck in your personal affairs." So, that's neat. Usually you don't even get fortunes at all, just compliments to your character like "well, aren't you nice." And I wouldn't really mind if either of those came true.
Yesterday my dad came down. We went to visit grandma, and went out for dinner. We had a good time, had some good conversation, and the people at the restaurant sang me happy birthday.
My grandma gave me some money as well as a beautiful crystal perfume bottle that had belonged to her grandmother- so it's sort of a family heirloom at this point. Both she and my dad had played with the prism-like stopper of the thing when they were kids. I'm honored to have received it, but I think I'm still touched more by the dictionary she gave me earlier in the year because I can actually use that. Also, my Dad and his wife got me a pretty TARDIS blue sapphire on a necklace, a little TARDIS pin, and a collection of old "The Fly" movies. Something to feed my love for Vincent Price!
...And they also gifted me this odd figure thing that looks like a Japanese toy version of a gangster. I don't really get it. My mom also gave me a figurine that I have absolutely no interest in: a cartoonish goth girl standing on a podium that reads "Do I look like a freakin' people person?" Yeach. I have no idea why she'd think I would like that. Mom also got me some perfume which I think we're going to take back, and she and my brother bought me a Kindle, which is definitely not going back. I haven't had much chance to play around with it yet, but it is pretty awesome. First thing I did was download Swann's Way, so maybe I'll finally start working my way though a bit of Proust.
Above all, I think I've most enjoyed everyone on here and elsewhere on the internet who's wished me a happy birthday. It's made me feel liked, and I thank all of you for the good wishes.
Today, I didn't really do anything. Slept in, and then tonight me and mom had a couple terrible margaritas while we watched an episode of Blakes 7.
Back when I talked briefly about my personality type, I listed Avon as someone who shares my type. Now that I've actually been watching the episodes, I'm really beginning to see similarities in the way we think. This thought of Avon's especially struck me because it's something that I've also wondered about:
"I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be necessary to prove it at all."
It all has me thinking that people must view me so incredibly differently from how I view myself. In public I come off as aloof and distant, and partly that's because I am aloof and distant unless I really like a person, and it's rare that I find people whom I actually like. I'm not rude to people, I just don't interact with them if I have no interest in doing so. ...and this has resulted in my mother buying me a figurine that says "Do I look like a freakin' people person?" across the bottom. I know that I'm over-analyzing it, but it almost feels like an insult.
Yesterday my dad came down. We went to visit grandma, and went out for dinner. We had a good time, had some good conversation, and the people at the restaurant sang me happy birthday.
My grandma gave me some money as well as a beautiful crystal perfume bottle that had belonged to her grandmother- so it's sort of a family heirloom at this point. Both she and my dad had played with the prism-like stopper of the thing when they were kids. I'm honored to have received it, but I think I'm still touched more by the dictionary she gave me earlier in the year because I can actually use that. Also, my Dad and his wife got me a pretty TARDIS blue sapphire on a necklace, a little TARDIS pin, and a collection of old "The Fly" movies. Something to feed my love for Vincent Price!
...And they also gifted me this odd figure thing that looks like a Japanese toy version of a gangster. I don't really get it. My mom also gave me a figurine that I have absolutely no interest in: a cartoonish goth girl standing on a podium that reads "Do I look like a freakin' people person?" Yeach. I have no idea why she'd think I would like that. Mom also got me some perfume which I think we're going to take back, and she and my brother bought me a Kindle, which is definitely not going back. I haven't had much chance to play around with it yet, but it is pretty awesome. First thing I did was download Swann's Way, so maybe I'll finally start working my way though a bit of Proust.
Above all, I think I've most enjoyed everyone on here and elsewhere on the internet who's wished me a happy birthday. It's made me feel liked, and I thank all of you for the good wishes.
Today, I didn't really do anything. Slept in, and then tonight me and mom had a couple terrible margaritas while we watched an episode of Blakes 7.
Back when I talked briefly about my personality type, I listed Avon as someone who shares my type. Now that I've actually been watching the episodes, I'm really beginning to see similarities in the way we think. This thought of Avon's especially struck me because it's something that I've also wondered about:
"I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be necessary to prove it at all."
It all has me thinking that people must view me so incredibly differently from how I view myself. In public I come off as aloof and distant, and partly that's because I am aloof and distant unless I really like a person, and it's rare that I find people whom I actually like. I'm not rude to people, I just don't interact with them if I have no interest in doing so. ...and this has resulted in my mother buying me a figurine that says "Do I look like a freakin' people person?" across the bottom. I know that I'm over-analyzing it, but it almost feels like an insult.
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Happy birthday!
It sounds like you got lots of cool stuff...and also a weird figurine.
I knew that link was going to say INTP before I read it, from what you said in your last paragraph. Obviously the problem is that we are better than everyone else in the world.
Though there is no way that George is an INTP. She's not thinky enough. She just comes of like it because she's a stereotype of teenagers who happens to always be surrounded by adults and responsibilities, so she's always quiet and distant.
And Data's an android.
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Annnyway, thanks. And yes, INTPs are pretty fabulous.
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...and you seem perfectly nice, to me.
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Also, allow me to explain with a picture:
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I don't seem to be much of a pronounced personality at all, lol. I retook the test I used back then and got ISFJ with only Introvertness being pronounced, the others were 1%, 1% and 12% respectively. Looking on this site, both ISFJ and INTP sound quite accurate to me, and on the site you linked to in your other post, INFJ sounds right too (and skimming INTP Central's description, I'm going "Yes yes yes" too). That site's test gave me a type that doesn't fit at all though, lol. Maybe I'm a INTP mixed with a ISFJ, so I want to be there for people and make them better, but despair at it because they're so freaking irrational. XD
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Because people will sometimes will do silly, stupid, ridiculous things for those you care about. Take risks, burn out stars... Or, to quote Timelash from memory (oh god, can I honestly quote Timelash from memory?):
Peri: I don't trust you, Doctor. You're being too reasonable.
Doctor: Than I shall be unreasonable. Get out!
Peri's making the same point from a slightly different direction than I am.
Or for a more down-to-earth example, of all the relationships I've been in, the romantic (if you wish to call it that) gesture that most sticks with me is when me and the significant other got caught outside in the rain. He had a jacket and I didn't, so he gave me his jacket. It's a tiny, silly, unnecessary gesture. That was... perhaps seven or eight years ago now, and I still remember it, a tiny gesture that felt like it meant the world, because... well, it was irrational and unnecessary, purely motivated by caring.
Caring about someone will make you do silly things. Whether those silly things are necessary proof is a different question... but it is kind of... nice.
Idk, I'm in a mood tonight and this may or may not have an actual bearing on what you were trying to say. But <3 and glad you had a nice enough birthday. :)
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But giving someone your jacket in the rain is neither silly or ridiculous. It's a caring gesture, but not an illogical one. It served a purpose. Several, probably. As for the Timelash quote, his goal was to get Peri out of the TARDIS, and he succeeded. The Doctor is still being logical (and yes, also caring), just...louder.
The point of the quote is that caring doesn't have to be separated from logic.
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Perhaps the point I seem to be getting at is more about acting out of character. Doing things that are unexpected. (Something I can't speak to for Avon -- though obviously, in the context of the entire crew, he's the one acting differently.) Six can't convince Peri to leave when he's acting oddly -- but when he throws a fit (a bit more normal for him), she leaves.
But where does burning out a sun just to say goodbye fall into this equation?
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Hmm, I think there's a distance between being distant, and being actively unfriendly, which is how the figurine seems. Maybe it's not something everyone picks up on, though.