I'm just me.

So, I learned some interesting things about myself today. Normally class activities aren't this exciting, but today in Communicative Interaction I was pumped. I have always felt like I don't really know who I am. I mean, I know who I am, but if I had to describe my personality or my tendencies and characteristic habits, I wouldn't have a clue what to say. We took the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator today, and I just thought, "YES, this is my opportunity to understand more about myself." Why this was so exciting to me, I'm not so sure. I have taken a survey before, you know the blue, green, yellow, orange color personality test, and I know that My personality is about half orange (adventurous) and half blue (thoughtful). So I mean, that's pretty vague. But here's what I learned about myself today:

I am an Extrovert.
This means I'm friendly, talkative, easy to know. I express emotions (absolutely not a bottler). I NEED relationships. (That I might have been able to tell you, I'm very socially motivated). I am energized by other people. The only thing not extroverted about me is that reflect, then act. This comes in to play during my encounters with new people. I often find myself in a conversation with a new person, and I'm sitting there analyzing in excruciating detail what I should or should not say to this person in order to make a good impression. For instance, last night I was at church at the women's bible study kick off, and I was sitting next to this girl Julia. She and I have met once previously at our 20's life group's pot luck dinner and have had the brief get-to-know-you conversation. But here I am sitting next to this girl who is beautiful and in the working world and went to Ole Miss, and I'm wondering what the heck I'm supposed to say to make a positive impact with her. I'm thinking and thinking and thinking, and find myself just sitting in silence because I can't come up with anything I think she'd find interesting. We go through the preliminary questions once again, and I will say that I did try to put myself out there once again. Only this time is wasn't as successful, but I guess thats a risk you run, right? I explained to her that I wanted to join this 20s life group in order to get to know some girls better and hopefully have someone to go to church with, since I've been going by myself recently. All of this confession only to find out that she is actually Catholic and goes to a different church alltogether. Ahh well. You win some you lose some right? At least I tried!

Also, I am Intuiting (Intuitive?)
Basically I am not very practical or orderly. I look forward to the future, prefer imagining possibilities and being inventive, and like change and variety.

Next, I'm Feeling
I make decisions with my heart, am concerned with relationships and harmony, and am good at understanding people. I think that's part of the reason why I get my feelings hurt easily, but also why I am in this particular field. So again, you win some you lose some.

Finally, I'm Perceiving
I prefer flexibility, like going with the flow, LOVE surprises, and am last minute when it comes to deadlines.

I feel like this Test was really interesting and quite accurate in describing me. I'm thrilled to know more about myself and I hope that you are too! Ha!