Saturday, January 5, 2008

INFP

I have been getting a lot of complaints lately (all from the same person) about my lack of capitalization when writing. I haven't been into capital letters since high school, and I don't really know why. When I said to The Complainer "Just for the record, E.E. Cummings (my favorite poet) never capitalized letters", he responded "Just for the record, you've never written poetry". Though rude, he makes a good point. So I'm trying out the capitalization for now. We'll see how long it lasts. I'm mainly doing it because The Complainer has been showing his protest by using all CAPS when text-messaging me. This is very annoying and I would like it to stop.


Also, I took another quiz! It's basically a simple version of the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, which I love. I urge you all to take it yourselves. I know you're all dying to see my results, so here you go (basically, the results confirm what you might already know; that I'm pretty great):

You Are An INFP

The Idealist

You are creative with a great imagination, living in your own inner world.
Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships.
It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close.
But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop.

In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards.
You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings.

At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values.
You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist.

How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak

7 comments:

Lee said...

Heck of a personality you've got there.

lisa said...

Thanks for noticing.

Brookalicious said...

lisa-i like the no caps things. it's so you. tell the complainer to complain about something else!

Jim said...

I applaud Lee for seeking change on this matter of not using caps. It has been very annoying but I had given up.

Amy and Brad said...

It is kind of weird seeing caps in the things you have typed. I don't know if I can get used to it at this point.

However, it did used to make me wonder - I could never figure out why you avoided caps in the first place. Was it "cool"? Were you making some kind of deeper non-conformist statement? Were you being lazy? I figured it was some kind of generational thing and confirmation that I was old.

natali said...

grammar is for suckers.

brian said...

what you (and more importantly lee) need to realize is that everything counts as a poem if you want it too. like this comment is a poem. it's not as good as natali's poem -- so concise, so evocative -- but a poem none the less.

in conclusion, you've probably written a million poems without even knowing it.

ps don't capitalize unless you're ok with self-policing yourself passively supporting existing institutions of power.