On April 7 of this year, I took a free online Meyers-Briggs personality test, and these were my results:
PERSONALITY TEST RESULTS
Ta-dah, your personality type is ISFJ!
Introverted (I) 79%, Extraverted (E) 21%
Sensing (S) 73%, Intuitive (N) 27%
Feeling (F) 90%, Thinking (T) 10%
Judging (J) 59%, Perceiving (P) 41%
or ISFJ.
Today, six months and ten days later, I took the same test, with these results:
PERSONALITY TEST RESULTS
Ta-dah, your personality type is ESFJ!
Extraverted (E) 50%, Introverted (I) 50%
Sensing (S) 55%, Intuitive (N) 45%
Feeling (F) 90%, Thinking (T) 10%
Judging (J) 73%, Perceiving (P) 27%
or ESFJ.
A summary of the categories and letter representations:
The first letter describes how you get re-energized. Extraverts spend time with others and introverts spend time alone. The specific amounts of time, of course, vary depending on the person, but this is generally true.
The second letter describes how you take in information from the world, what you observe, and how you think. Sensors observe with their senses - what they see, colors, how things feel on their skin, tastes, smells, etc. If you're intuitive, you think about things, ideas, etc, what it would be like to be in another person's position, etc.
The third letter is how you make decisions. Feelers focus on the way things make them feel and their decisions are based on this. Thinkers focus on what makes the most sense and other logical routes.
The final letter is how you work with your time. Judgers are planners and perceivers are spontaneous and much more comfortable with flying by the seats of their pants.
So, for me, this is what these letters mean:
When I took the test in April, I was much more introverted. Today I'm 50/50 introverted and extraverted. I think this is because I'm spending a lot more time with other people and am seeing the value in that. I feel better more often when I'm with others. I've also become more intuitive, as oppososed to sensitive, which I think is because I've done a lot more thinking about who I am and my growth, etc. I just think a lot more in general. I'm also more of a planner, if that was even possible, which makes sense because I am doing so much with my time that I definitely need to keep it straight.
Isn't this all interesting? I definitely find it interesting. When I took the test today, I didn't think anything would really change. But look at that, I sure have. Can't figure out if this is a good thing or not.
xoxo
ps. Famous ISFJs and ESFJs.
ISFJ - St. Teresa de Avila, Robert E. Lee, President William Howard Taft, Kristi Yamaguchi, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Dr. John H. Watson, MD, Sherlock Holmes' sidekick
ESFJ - President Bill Clinton, Desi Arnaz ("Ricky Ricardo"), Terry Bradshaw, Mary Tyler Moore, Steve Spurrier, Sally Field, Monica from Friends, Molly Weasley from Harry Potter, and Donald Duck
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
TAKE STEPS.
I'm so excited my mom stumbled on this!
Next weekend, I'll be heading up TEAM KELLI in a fundraising walk for CCFA, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America!
If you're interested in making a donation to my personal goal of raising $50, reading my story, or joining my team to raise money to our team goal of $200 and walking with us next Sunday, please visit http://bit.ly/geauxteamkelli. If you'd like to donate to our team goal, visit http://bit.ly/takestepsteamkelli. If you can't make a donation, don't worry, I completely understand! I'm a penny-pincher, myself. In that case, if you feel comfortable, please pray for our team and for the research of Crohn's and colitis!
xoxo
Next weekend, I'll be heading up TEAM KELLI in a fundraising walk for CCFA, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America!
If you're interested in making a donation to my personal goal of raising $50, reading my story, or joining my team to raise money to our team goal of $200 and walking with us next Sunday, please visit http://bit.ly/geauxteamkelli. If you'd like to donate to our team goal, visit http://bit.ly/takestepsteamkelli. If you can't make a donation, don't worry, I completely understand! I'm a penny-pincher, myself. In that case, if you feel comfortable, please pray for our team and for the research of Crohn's and colitis!
xoxo
Thursday, October 13, 2011
today's thoughts.
Hello.
Today I have a lot of thoughts, which is rather unfortunate because I have a lot to do. I started my new position at the UREC this morning, now I'm at Princeton Review for 4.5 hours, and then another shift at the UREC from 5-8. I'm very much looking forward to this crazylong day being over.
I have been a mess the past few days. I've not been able to breathe very well (thanks pollen!), which ended up with me having a sore throat; I have been completely exhausted, and I have been sad because Monday made a three-month mark of being single. :(
I feel like I've picked open a scab over a wound. I was thinking I was getting so much better, but now I picked at it, and all of a sudden, I feel so much worse. People are suggesting to me that I reach some kind of closure, and to only do things that bring me joy, giving things that bring angst the axe. All of this makes complete sense, but they come with something that's big and scary and that I don't really want to do - like talking to someone. Or "breaking up" with the first place I felt like was a home for me when I was a freshman so so long ago. These things scare me, and I don't really know what to do about them, but on the other hand, I feel myself being super tense and short with my family and friends and pulling away from them, too. I've been feeling lonely, so by not sharing this with people, I have ended up sealing myself in on the loneliness. Which is awful.
A sweet long-distance friend texted me for the first time yesterday to check in on me, and when I told him I didn't want to go back to our Christian community (my first home-away-from-home, where he and I met) and where my ex lives and works, he said he thought I needed to give myself a year to grieve. A whole year! I can't imagine that. I really hope I'm much, much better by July 10, 2012. I want to be.
So I can't get better by sitting still and expecting everything around me to change for me. I will make a sure effort to shake the lonely feeling. I will do things that I love, and only for the reason that I love them. I will talk to my mom and sister and girlfriends to gain advice and reassurance. I will pray and read and worship my God for bringing me out of something so awful and heart-wrenching, and for never letting go of me while I heal. I will be disciplined and good at time management so that I get things done and make good grades. I will write letters for me to keep every day to express my feelings and let them go. I will write a letter that will be delivered, or I will be brave and strong and ask for a conversation. Somehow, I will do this. I'm a strong-ass woman.
I cannot stay in this funk forever. And I cannot fool myself into thinking I've left the funk when really I'm just skating on thin ice, the funk creeping about below me, less than an inch away from tackling me and taking me down with it. I will leave it. I will be better. And for the first time in years, I will find what it means to be truly happy. I have missed that feeling; for so long of fooling myself into believing I was, I actually will become it.
Other things that are making me happy today:
- a visit from my best friend in just over 24 hours
- hanging out with her and all of my family this weekend
- my new job is a good one, and I will be very good at it
- hopefully less than one more week where I will be working a kazillion hours
- I opened my acceptance letter to LSU five years ago today
- my roommate is wonderful
- I love my contemporary christian station on pandora
xoxo
Today I have a lot of thoughts, which is rather unfortunate because I have a lot to do. I started my new position at the UREC this morning, now I'm at Princeton Review for 4.5 hours, and then another shift at the UREC from 5-8. I'm very much looking forward to this crazylong day being over.
I have been a mess the past few days. I've not been able to breathe very well (thanks pollen!), which ended up with me having a sore throat; I have been completely exhausted, and I have been sad because Monday made a three-month mark of being single. :(
I feel like I've picked open a scab over a wound. I was thinking I was getting so much better, but now I picked at it, and all of a sudden, I feel so much worse. People are suggesting to me that I reach some kind of closure, and to only do things that bring me joy, giving things that bring angst the axe. All of this makes complete sense, but they come with something that's big and scary and that I don't really want to do - like talking to someone. Or "breaking up" with the first place I felt like was a home for me when I was a freshman so so long ago. These things scare me, and I don't really know what to do about them, but on the other hand, I feel myself being super tense and short with my family and friends and pulling away from them, too. I've been feeling lonely, so by not sharing this with people, I have ended up sealing myself in on the loneliness. Which is awful.
A sweet long-distance friend texted me for the first time yesterday to check in on me, and when I told him I didn't want to go back to our Christian community (my first home-away-from-home, where he and I met) and where my ex lives and works, he said he thought I needed to give myself a year to grieve. A whole year! I can't imagine that. I really hope I'm much, much better by July 10, 2012. I want to be.
So I can't get better by sitting still and expecting everything around me to change for me. I will make a sure effort to shake the lonely feeling. I will do things that I love, and only for the reason that I love them. I will talk to my mom and sister and girlfriends to gain advice and reassurance. I will pray and read and worship my God for bringing me out of something so awful and heart-wrenching, and for never letting go of me while I heal. I will be disciplined and good at time management so that I get things done and make good grades. I will write letters for me to keep every day to express my feelings and let them go. I will write a letter that will be delivered, or I will be brave and strong and ask for a conversation. Somehow, I will do this. I'm a strong-ass woman.
I cannot stay in this funk forever. And I cannot fool myself into thinking I've left the funk when really I'm just skating on thin ice, the funk creeping about below me, less than an inch away from tackling me and taking me down with it. I will leave it. I will be better. And for the first time in years, I will find what it means to be truly happy. I have missed that feeling; for so long of fooling myself into believing I was, I actually will become it.
Other things that are making me happy today:
- a visit from my best friend in just over 24 hours
- hanging out with her and all of my family this weekend
- my new job is a good one, and I will be very good at it
- hopefully less than one more week where I will be working a kazillion hours
- I opened my acceptance letter to LSU five years ago today
- my roommate is wonderful
- I love my contemporary christian station on pandora
xoxo
Monday, October 10, 2011
psalm 139
1 Lord, you have examined me and know all about me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts before I think them.
3 You know where I go and where I lie down. You know everything I do.
4 Lord, even before I say a word, you already know it.
5 You are all around me—in front and in back— and have put your hand on me.
6 Your knowledge is amazing to me; it is more than I can understand.
7 Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run from you?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the grave, you are there.
9 If I rise with the sun in the east and settle in the west beyond the sea, 10 even there you would guide me. With your right hand you would hold me.
11 I could say, “The darkness will hide me. Let the light around me turn into night.”
12 But even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as light as the day; darkness and light are the same to you.
13 You made my whole being; you formed me in my mother’s body.
14 I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.
15 You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother’s body.
When I was put together there, 16 you saw my body as it was formed.
All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.
17 God, your thoughts are precious to me. They are so many!
18 If I could count them, they would be more than all the grains of sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
19 God, I wish you would kill the wicked! Get away from me, you murderers!
20 They say evil things about you. Your enemies use your name thoughtlessly.
21 Lord, I hate those who hate you; I hate those who rise up against you.
22 I feel only hate for them; they are my enemies.
23 God, examine me and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any bad thing in me. Lead me on the road to everlasting life.
2 You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts before I think them.
3 You know where I go and where I lie down. You know everything I do.
4 Lord, even before I say a word, you already know it.
5 You are all around me—in front and in back— and have put your hand on me.
6 Your knowledge is amazing to me; it is more than I can understand.
7 Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run from you?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the grave, you are there.
9 If I rise with the sun in the east and settle in the west beyond the sea, 10 even there you would guide me. With your right hand you would hold me.
11 I could say, “The darkness will hide me. Let the light around me turn into night.”
12 But even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as light as the day; darkness and light are the same to you.
13 You made my whole being; you formed me in my mother’s body.
14 I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.
15 You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother’s body.
When I was put together there, 16 you saw my body as it was formed.
All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.
17 God, your thoughts are precious to me. They are so many!
18 If I could count them, they would be more than all the grains of sand.
When I wake up, I am still with you.
19 God, I wish you would kill the wicked! Get away from me, you murderers!
20 They say evil things about you. Your enemies use your name thoughtlessly.
21 Lord, I hate those who hate you; I hate those who rise up against you.
22 I feel only hate for them; they are my enemies.
23 God, examine me and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any bad thing in me. Lead me on the road to everlasting life.
Friday, October 7, 2011
the weekend.
Today I have an evaluation with the Princeton Review for my first 6 weeks of work that will [hopefully] result in a pay raise, then the remainder of a brief, 3.5-hour shift, then I meet up with my parents and maybe my roommate for dinner, then the four of us will attend Tigerama, only the best concert, ever, then my roommate and I will head east to Pensacola for a weekend at the beach.
While at the beach I will hang out with a lot of my friends from the Wesley Foundation, I hope I will not get sunburned, stung by a jellyfish, or pinched by a crab, I will be having Panera Bread at least once and/or Jim n Nick's and Steak n Shake, and I will visit a Publix, for Christ's sake.
beach!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxo
While at the beach I will hang out with a lot of my friends from the Wesley Foundation, I hope I will not get sunburned, stung by a jellyfish, or pinched by a crab, I will be having Panera Bread at least once and/or Jim n Nick's and Steak n Shake, and I will visit a Publix, for Christ's sake.
beach!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxo
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
picturesque
Some things I wanted to share.
Oak trees and Spanish Moss by Lake Pontchartrain in Mandeville.
A pretty view of the LSU lakes.
Sea turtle, whale, and seals; some of the National Geographic pictures of the year.
Me and my Ellie Sue.
hopeful today.
xoxo
Monday, October 3, 2011
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate, and other such nonsense
Did you know glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate is a thing?
I didn't, until I had to write it about seven times in my studying notes for microbiology just now.
I didn't really think this class would be all that hard... after all, it is only 1000-level. Surprise!
I'm about to head to my phi lamb-tastic Monday evening. I'm really glad about that.
I have to take an online quiz for statistics by tomorrow at midnight... I'm not so glad about that.
My mom and Krysten are super supportive of me and my relationship with the Lord. When I get wigged out, they help calm me down. When I'm stressing really hard, Krysten asks what she can do. When I'm totally daunted by something I've probably fabricated in my own mind, my mom helps set me straight and tells me I'm doing well.
However, my God, as blessed as I am by these women and so many other individuals in my life, it's what's between You and me that matters. I know You are calling me to something challenging, whether or not I know specifics at this particular time. I know You are walking right beside me and holding me and helping my heaviness feel not so heavy. Please don't stop. Please speak to me. Please, in Your timing, show me the beauty of the struggles I face today. Please, in Your time, send me that boy created to walk with me for the rest of my life. And in the meantime, help me be purified in You, dote on me, show me You love me more than anyone ever will. And I will always run to You.
In Your most High Name, amen.
xoxo
ps. glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P) is one of the two things a six-carbon glucose is broken into via an oxidation reaction towards the beginning of the glycolysis process. You're welcome.
I didn't, until I had to write it about seven times in my studying notes for microbiology just now.
I didn't really think this class would be all that hard... after all, it is only 1000-level. Surprise!
I'm about to head to my phi lamb-tastic Monday evening. I'm really glad about that.
I have to take an online quiz for statistics by tomorrow at midnight... I'm not so glad about that.
My mom and Krysten are super supportive of me and my relationship with the Lord. When I get wigged out, they help calm me down. When I'm stressing really hard, Krysten asks what she can do. When I'm totally daunted by something I've probably fabricated in my own mind, my mom helps set me straight and tells me I'm doing well.
However, my God, as blessed as I am by these women and so many other individuals in my life, it's what's between You and me that matters. I know You are calling me to something challenging, whether or not I know specifics at this particular time. I know You are walking right beside me and holding me and helping my heaviness feel not so heavy. Please don't stop. Please speak to me. Please, in Your timing, show me the beauty of the struggles I face today. Please, in Your time, send me that boy created to walk with me for the rest of my life. And in the meantime, help me be purified in You, dote on me, show me You love me more than anyone ever will. And I will always run to You.
In Your most High Name, amen.
xoxo
ps. glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P) is one of the two things a six-carbon glucose is broken into via an oxidation reaction towards the beginning of the glycolysis process. You're welcome.
running music
When I went for my "runs" the last two sessions, I've listened to this playlist, in pieces. I love it so far.
In other news, I'm thinking about a big "project" I think God is calling me to. I'm not sure yet. I'm praying some more. But the idea of it is overwhelming, to say the least.
xoxo
- "Dog Days Are Over" - Florence + The Machine
- "Dog Problems" - The Format
- "Do You Wanna Touch Me" - Glee Cast
- "Touch a Touch a Touch a Touch Me" - Rocky Horror Glee Show
- "I and Love and You" - The Avett Brothers
- "Die Die Die" - The Avett Brothers
- "You Lie" - The Band Perry
- "Halo" - Beyonce
- "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" - Beyonce
- "Dusk And Summer" - Dashboard Confessional
- "Don't Carry It All" - The Decemberists
- "All Arise!" - The Decemberists
- "Crocodile Rock - LIVE" - Elton John
- "Oh, It Is Love" - Hellogoodbye
- "Only Wanna Be With You" - Hootie & The Blowfish
- "I Go Blind" - Hootie & The Blowfish
- "Baby" - Justin Bieber
- "Stronger" - Kanye West
- "California Girls" - Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg
- "Bulletproof" - La Roux
- "Roll Away Your Stone" - Mumford & Sons
- "Sigh No More" - Mumford & Sons
- "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" - Neutral Milk Hotel
- "On the Radio" - Regina Spektor
- "We Shine" - Steve Fee
- "Chicago" - Sufjan Stevens
- "Orbiting" - The Weepies
- "What Is This Feeling?" - Wicked Cast
- "Don't Trust Me" - 3OH!3
In other news, I'm thinking about a big "project" I think God is calling me to. I'm not sure yet. I'm praying some more. But the idea of it is overwhelming, to say the least.
xoxo
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