This could be fun!

This is why I need to go to Burning Man:

Yow.

Did I mention that she's my first car? God, I'm going to miss her. ~sniff~

I'm selling my car.

My beautiful baby . . . my champagne-coloured 1990 Nissan Axxess that previously belonged to Forever North's parents. Three years ago, she blew her transmission. I bought her a used one and brought her back to life.

After 3 years of tweaking and adjusting, she was back up to speed. We bought her a new battery, new tires and gave her a tune-up. Her starter died, so we bought her a new one. We replaced her radiator and her water-pump, and fixed the rear sway bar linkage.

Now she hums and purrs so sweetly, despite how she ran like a tractor when we finally got her up and running after replacing the transmission.

A little TLC, and now she runs like the little shuttle-craft that she is. And now she's going to a new home. It's so hard to see your kids go. ~sniff~

Wow, people are actually taking my poll! Yay people!

I ought to find a better place for it though, before it disappears into the archives.

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Stop the clicking!!!!!!

ENFJ's are born executives. But how does one set out to become an executive? It's not like there's an executive-wannabe department at the university.

Are you sitting on your ass doing nothing, and wondering what to do with your life? (Why yes, I am!)

Then find out what career fits your personality type.

Find out your personality type here.

I have fallen helplessly, hopelessly in love with a bunny named Stewy.

He was abandoned on the door step of my favourite pet shop, and he is the most loving, adorable bunny I've ever met.

But how, oh HOW can I care for a needy cat, 2 chinchillas and a needy bunny??? I want it to work, but can it? Am I kidding myself?

Oh woe is me.

I want so very much to have every picture I have scanned. I want to have everything neatly organized and uploaded. I want dozens and dozens of albums, overflowing with pictures.

I want my computer to stop crashing and giving me fatal errors. I want a graphics card that can handle ToCA2 and Counterstrike. I want to finally have all my pictures burned onto CD so I can finally clear my hard drive and defrag this aging bitch.

~sigh~ I'm so whiny today.

I've spent the greater part of 3 days scanning pictures, and I'm exhausted.

I'm sick of scanning pictures. I'm sick of my computer crashing every 10 pictures or so. In fact, I'm sick of my computer crashing, period.

I'm so tired, and I think I'm coming down with something.

Dammit, I need a good night's sleep followed by a night on the town. ~sigh~

Can you tell I'm cranky? That's what happens when I'm deprived of sleep. Sorry.

This is why I love my cat . . . he gives me hugs. :)

Wow, famous eNTj 's include:

George Bernhard Shaw


Douglas MacArthur


George Marshall


Margaret Thatcher


Napolean Bonaparte


William Tecumsah Sherman


Bill Gates

Forever North is an eNFj.

If you know us in person, I'm sure you're shuddering at the eerie accuracy of these profiles!

Portrait of the Teacher (eNFj)

Copyrighted � 1996 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.

The Idealists called Teachers are abstract in their thought and speech, cooperative in their style of achieving goals, and directive and extraverted in their interpersonal relations. Learning in the young has to be beckoned forth, teased out from its hiding place, or, as suggested by the word "education," it has to be "educed." by an individual with educative capabilities. Such a one is the eNFj, thus rightly called the educative mentor or Teacher for short. The Teacher is especially capable of educing or calling forth those inner potentials each learner possesses. Even as children the eNFjs may attract a gathering of other children ready to follow their lead in play or work. And they lead without seeming to do so.

Teachers expect the very best of those around them, and this expectation, usually expressed as enthusiastic encouragement, motivates action in others and the desire to live up to their expectations. Teachers have the charming characteristic of taking for granted that their expectations will be met, their implicit commands obeyed, never doubting that people will want to do what they suggest. And, more often than not, people do, because this type has extraordinary charisma.

The Teachers are found in no more than 2 or 3 percent of the population. They like to have things settled and arranged. They prefer to plan both work and social engagements ahead of time and tend to be absolutely reliable in honoring these commitments. At the same time, eNFjs are very much at home in complex situations which require the juggling of much data with little pre-planning. An experienced eNFj group leader can dream up, effortlessly, and almost endlessly, activities for groups to engage in, and stimulating roles for members of the group to play. In some Teachers, inspired by the responsiveness of their students or followers, this can amount to genius which other types find hard to emulate. Such ability to preside without planning reminds us somewhat of an ESFJ, but the latter acts more as a master of ceremonies than as a leader of groups. ESFJs are natural hosts and hostesses, making sure that each guest is well looked after at social gatherings, or that the right things are expressed on traditional occasions, such as weddings, funerals, graduations, and the like. In much the same way, Teachers value harmonious human relations about all else, can handle people with charm and concern, and are usually popular wherever they are. But Teachers are not so much social as educational leaders, interested primarily in the personal growth and development of others, and less in attending to their social needs.

It's scary how accurate that profile is in describing me. I know you Feeling people would think me cold-hearted and inhuman, but you Thinking people would think that I was just being sensible.

Such a diverse world we live in!

Ah, I stand corrected. Upon reevaluation, it turns out that I am actually an eNTj, not an iNTj.

In other words, this means I am more Extraverted than Introverted, more iNtuitive than Sensing, more Thinking than Feeling, and more Judging than Perceiving.

The Portrait of a Fieldmarshal (eNTj)

Copyrighted � 1996 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.

Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is marshalling or situational organizing role that reaches the highest development in eNTjs. As this kind of role is practiced some contingency organizing is necessary, so that the second suit of the eNTj's intellect is devising contingency plans. Structural and functional engineering, though practiced in some degree in the course of organizational operations, tend to be not nearly as well developed and are soon outstripped by the rapidly growing skills in organizing. But it must be said that any kind of strategic exercize tends to bring added strength to engineering as well as organizing skills.

As the organizing capabilities the eNTjs increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their organizational efforts. So they tend to take up a directive role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less and less desire, if they ever had any, to inform others.

Hardly more than two percent of the total population, the eNTjs are bound to lead others, and from an early age they can be observed taking command of groups. In some cases, eNTjs simply find themselves in charge of groups, and are mystified as to how this happened. But the reason is that eNTjs have a strong natural urge to give structure and direction wherever they are-to harness people in the field and to direct them to achieve distant goals. They resemble ESTJs in their tendency to establish plans for a task, enterprise, or organization, but eNTjs search more for policy and goals than for regulations and procedures.

They cannot not build organizations, and cannot not push to implement their goals. When in charge of an organization, whether in the military, business, education, or government, eNTjs more than any other type desire (and generally have the ability) to visualize where the organization is going, and they seem able to communicate that vision to others. Their organizational and coordinating skills tends to be highly developed, which means that they are likely to be good at systematizing, ordering priorities, generalizing, summarizing, at marshalling evidence, and at demonstrating their ideas. Their ability to organize, however, may be more highly developed than their ability to analyze, and the eNTj leader may need to turn to an eNTp or iNTp to provide this kind of input.

eNTjs will usually rise to positions of responsibility and enjoy being executives. They are tireless in their devotion to their jobs and can easily block out other areas of life for the sake of their work. Superb administrators in any field-medicine, law, business, education, government, the military-eNTjs organize their units into smooth-functioning systems, planning in advance, keeping both short-term and long-range objectives well in mind. For the eNTj, there must always be a goal-directed reason for doing anything, and people's feelings usually are not sufficient reason. They prefer decisions to be based on impersonal data, want to work from well thought-out plans, like to use engineered operations-and they expect others to follow suit. They are ever intent on reducing bureaucratic red tape, task redundancy, and aimless confusion in the workplace, and they are willing to dismiss employees who cannot get with the program and increase their efficiency. Although eNTjs are tolerant of established procedures, they can and will abandon any procedure when it can be shown to be ineffective in accomplishing its goal. eNTjs root out and reject ineffectiveness and inefficiency, and are impatient with repetition of error.

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According to the Keirsey system, what are you?

Despite how much I have changed over the last few months, I am still an iNTj.

Hey! Right on! This might just be the thing to get Forever North into the whole blogging thing.

Of course, he might be too busy looking at car stuff. ~sigh~

Finally! I am back in front of my computer.

I feel like an addict who's been without a fix for 4 days.

After kicking my computer a few times, I've finally gotten most of the kinks ironed out. I should be good for another, oh, 2 months. Then I get to do another total reinstall. Yay.