when i heard “happy new year” over and over again two weeks ago, i didn’t really take it litteral, but

although i’m super-busy, i’m feeling great.
and it’s been some time…

i just followed a link from a site that i found through a link…
… and landed at www.9types.com

so i took the test, which was kind of hard to do.
about a year ago, i changed a big part of my general attitude. i made some decisions that would change the way i’d live my life. so i took it twice – once for what i would have answered a year ago, and one for the current episode of my life, but they didn’t turn out that differently: my current state is just more polarized.

the “currently”-outcome says i am

the test runs on points per answer, and my highest score (12) is three times the second score (ergo 4 – wow, that matrix movie really had a linguistic impact :wink:). so it’s a pretty significant rank.
it didn’t really shake me, but the following lines, taken from the description pages for Type5s hit the mark:

How to Get Along with Me
Help me to avoid my pet peeves: big parties, other people’s loud music, overdone emotions, and intrusions on my privacy.

The preoccupations of Point Five include:
Privacy.
Overvaluing of self-control.
Compartmentalizing. Commitments in life are kept separate from one another. One box per commitment. Time Limit for each box.
An attentional style of focusing on life and oneself from the point of view of an outside observer

WOW! this is exactly me!

(let’s just forget for a moment that one of the biggest intrusions on my privacy is …my own blog. and one of the strongest forces against my compartmentalizing is …my own blog. go, me!)

i have the weirdest perception of time!

on the one hand it seems like forever and a day since christmas and new year’s eve – i even have a hard time remembering the last thing i did before the weekend started (=friday noon).
on the other hand it seems like yesterday that my family left (=dec. 30th), and tomorrow they’re coming back already.

my mind is totally clogged. congested. 100% blocked up.

i can’t stop to think of what i’m thinking all the time these days.
even now that i try to concentrate on writing, it’s still only second level thoughts that get a glimpse of time.

i’m thinking about it (no, i’m not going to tell what, yet!) so intensely that it’s almost like i have memories from future. i keep picturing me out doing this and that, and because i’ve already thought of that just before, i’m actually remembering.

strange :neutral:

sometime ago, somebody (yeah, it won’t get more specific) wondered why i had two (computer-)displays in my room.
when i answered that it’s not actually two computers, but one computer with two displays, she (ok, just a little more specific) was kinda “oh, i see. that’s geeky, but still ok”.
anyway, when i pointed over to the tidy notebook and said that that was indeed another computer, but just one for backupping/security, she said something like “oh yeah, because otherwise you’d have one or two minutes without a computer, right?”. she said it in a nice way, but still, i kept thinking about it.

and here’s the conclusion:
for me, my computer is uniting the following things/functions:

that might not be very uncommon elsewhere, but i feel like in austria it still is.

so this is why i would gladly prefer a computer w/ internet connection to …a lot of things.
i know, i am a geek.