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March 2nd, 2007 Janean
ENFJ
Just took a Meyers-Briggs test online at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm and I am an ENFJ. Here’s what the website had to say about it:
Profile: ENFJ
Revision: 3.0
Date of Revision: 23 Feb 2005
ENFJs are the benevolent ‘pedagogues’ of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. Many ENFJs have tremendous power to manipulate others with their phenomenal interpersonal skills and unique salesmanship. But it’s usually not meant as manipulation — ENFJs generally believe in their dreams, and see themselves as helpers and enablers, which they usually are.ENFJs are global learners. They see the big picture. The ENFJs focus is expansive. Some can juggle an amazing number of responsibilities or projects simultaneously. Many ENFJs have tremendous entrepreneurial ability.ENFJs are, by definition, Js, with whom we associate organization and decisiveness. But they don’t resemble the SJs or even the NTJs in organization of the environment nor occasional recalcitrance. ENFJs are organized in the arena of interpersonal affairs. Their offices may or may not be cluttered, but their conclusions (reached through feelings) about people and motives are drawn much more quickly and are more resilient than those of their NFP counterparts.
ENFJs know and appreciate people. Like most NFs, (and Feelers in general), they are apt to neglect themselves and their own needs for the needs of others. They have thinner psychological boundaries than most, and are at risk for being hurt or even abused by less sensitive people. ENFJs often take on more of the burdens of others than they can bear.
TRADEMARK: “The first shall be last”
This refers to the open-door policy of ENFJs. One ENFJ colleague always welcomes me into his office regardless of his own circumstances. If another person comes to the door, he allows them to interrupt our conversation with their need. While discussing that need, the phone rings and he stops to answer it. Others drop in with a ‘quick question.’ I finally get up, go to my office and use the call waiting feature on the telephone. When he hangs up, I have his undivided attention!
Extraverted Feeling
Extraverted Feeling rules the ENFJ’s psyche. In the sway of this rational function, these folks are predisposed to closure in matters pertaining to people, and especially on behalf of their beloved. As extraverts, their contacts are wide ranging. Face-to-face relationships are intense, personable and warm, though they may be so infrequently achieved that intimate friendships are rare.
Introverted iNtuition
Like their INFJ cousins, ENFJs are blessed through introverted intuition with clarity of perception in the inner, unconscious world. Dominant Feeling prefers to find the silver lining in even the most beggarly perceptions of those in their expanding circle of friends and, of course, in themselves. In less balanced individuals, such mitigation of the unseemly eventually undermines the ENFJ’s integrity and frequently their good name. In healthier individuals, deft use of this awareness of the inner needs and desires of others enables this astute type to win friends, influence people, and avoid compromising entanglements.The dynamic nature of their intuition moves ENFJs from one project to another with the assurance that the next one will be perfect, or much more nearly so than the last. ENFJs are continually looking for newer and better solutions to benefit their extensive family, staff, or organization.
Extraverted Sensing
Sensing is extraverted. ENFJs can manage details, particularly those necessary to implement the prevailing vision. These data have, however, a magical flexible quality. Something to be bought can be had for a song; the same something is invaluable when it’s time to sell. (We are not certain, but we suspect that such is the influence of the primary function.) This wavering of sensory perception is made possible by the weaker and less mature status with which the tertiary is endowed.
Introverted Thinking
Introverted Thinking is least apparent and most enigmatic in this type. In fact, it often appears only when summoned by Feeling. At times only in jest, but in earnest if need be, Thinking entertains as logical only those conclusions which support Feeling’s values. Other scenarios can be shown invalid or at best significantly inferior. Such “Thinking in the service of Feeling” has the appearance of logic, but somehow it never quite adds up.
Introverted Thinking is frequently the focus of the spiritual quest of ENFJs. David’s lengthiest psalm, 119, pays it homage. “Law,” “precept,” “commandment,” “statute:” these essences of inner thinking are the mysteries of Deity for which this great Feeler’s soul searched.
Famous ENFJs:
David, King of Israel
U.S. Presidents:
Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
William Cullen Bryant, poet
Abraham Maslow, psychologist and proponent of self-actualization
Ross Perot
Sean Connery
Elizabeth Dole
Francois Mitterand
Dick Van Dyke
Andy Griffith
James Garner
William Aramony, former president of United Way
Gene Hackman (Superman, Antz)
Dennis Hopper (Speed)
Brenda Vaccaro
Craig T. Nelson (Coach)
Diane Sawyer (Good Morning America)
Randy Quaid (Bye Bye, Love; Independence Day)
Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive)
Kirstie Alley (”Cheers,” Look Who’s Talking movies)
Michael Jordan, NBA basketball player
Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Oprah Winfrey
Bob Saget America’s Funniest Home Videos, Full House
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (”Seinfeld”)
Ben Stiller (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Peyton Manning, Indianapolis Colts quarterback
Matthew McConaughey (The Wedding Planner)
Pete Sampras, Tennis Champion
Lauren Graham (”Gilmore Girls”)
Ben Affleck (The Sum Of All Fears)
John Cusack (High Fidelity)
February 28th, 2007 Janean
Whiskers, Lost Cat
My first cat. Mom got rid of her and told me she ran away. I walked all over the neighborhood putting up signs and looking for her, and I didn’t learn the truth for at least another year. This could be the source of my deep-rooted psychological issues.
Add comment February 17th, 2007 Janean
Grammom
My grandmother was the only one who understood my relationship with Pete. Or maybe she just tolerated it better than most… but she always asked me how he was doing, and I’d like to continue thinking she was genuine.
Add comment February 14th, 2007 Janean
Thor Page
T… is for the way you thunder so
H… is for the hammer that you throw
O… the only one who likes to hang with Laufey’s son
R… yes you’re the reason Aegir’s brewing ale all season
Thor! Yes, he’s the Ase that we admire
Thor! His angry eyes they blaze like fire
Thor! That mighty red-beard
(drives a goat cart, but he’s not weird)
Thor! The god for me and you
T… is for the way you travel ’round
H… for Sif, the honey that you found
O… you’re Odin’s son, the one who makes the giants run
R… at Ragnarok, who will clean that serpent’s clock? It’s…
Thor! Yes, he’s the Ase that we admire
Thor! His angry eyes they blaze like fire
Thor! That mighty red-beard
(wore a dress once, but he’s not weird)
Thor! The god for me and you
February 14th, 2007 Janean
Scrapbooks
Here are some pages I made last weekend when I was supposed to be studying 
February 13th, 2007 Janean
All Purpose Scholarship and Cover Letter Essay
It is my intention to complete my BA in Criminal Justice at State University of New York at Albany by May 2008 and continue on for a dual MA/MSW degree in Criminal Justice and Social Work. My career goal is to work in Restorative Justice or Victim/Offender Mediation. Ultimately I hope to help change social attitudes about crime and punishment. I am a part time student, taking 6 credit hours per semester in Spring, Summer and Fall semesters. Presently I am dependent on student loans. [insert additional details here]
Previously I have earned two Associate Degrees in Personal Computers and Networking Technology from Lehigh Valley College and in Business Administration from Schenectady County Community College. Since transferring to SUNY Albany in Spring 2006 I have taken six courses, earning 4 As and 2 Bs, with a cumulative GPA of 3.470. I recently joined the Criminal Justice Student Association and I plan to apply for membership in Alpha Phi Sigma, the National Criminal Justice Honor Society. For nearly four years I have been the Administrative Assistant at Samaritan Counseling Center of the Capital Region, a not-for-profit mental-health counseling center. Working for a not-for-profit has inspired me to pursue a career that will allow me to help people in my community. My husband is incarcerated; in July 2007 we will celebrate our ninth anniversary. I have had an eye-opening run-in with the criminal justice system myself. These experiences have reinforced my opinion that our country’s beliefs and attitudes about crime and punishment need serious change, and I want to be a part of that change. I am a regular attendee at Prison Families of New York, a support and advocacy organization for families of prisoners, and a member of the Justice Committee at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany.
Perhaps this country is not willing to accept that people who commit crimes are still people. We must change our society’s attitudes and beliefs about crime and punishment and get away from the idea that locking people up is the solution to our crime problem. Recent statistics indicate that one in 34 American adults is incarcerated, on parole or serving probation, a total of seven million people! Little or no thought is given to the families left behind or to the future when these people are released with no education or job training. We can bring about change by using more restorative justice methods, which are based on mutual respect and recognizing the impact that crime has on real people. Victims of crime get closure on a potentially traumatic experience and people who commit crimes realize that their offense has harmed a real person. Many states are starting to use restorative methods for minor offenses, and Vermont has recently started using restorative victim/offender dialog for violent crimes as well.
When I shared a rough draft of this essay with my parents, it sparked a heated debate about incarceration as a deterrent. I do not believe in general deterrence. People are not thinking about the possibility of a prison sentence when they choose to commit a crime. Incarceration, if it must be used, should be short-term and focused on rehabilitation and vocational training. Perhaps anticipating an era of change under Governor Spitzer, NYS DOCS has attempted to become a family friendly agency. In hopes of aiding this transition, my husband and I formed New York Inmate Family Council, a not-for-profit dedicated to giving inmate family members a voice with the Department of Correctional Services. California has a similar program and they report that it has been beneficial for their correctional facilities. I may never have the opportunity to make the changes that I believe are necessary. The criminal justice system may never get the overhaul it desperately needs. But I will share my ideas with anyone who will listen, and [insert additional details here] I will follow a path that leads to change.
Interests / Achievements:
Social Responsibilities Council, First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany. Justice Committee, Forum Committee.
Prison Families of New York. New York Inmate Families.
President, Earth Religions in Service, Inc. - a not for profit corporation providing information on Pagan lifestyles and practices in order to promote tolerance and dispel myths about Paganism in general.
Acting Director, Inmate Familiy Council of New York, Inc. - a not for profit organization dedicated to giving inmate family members a voice with the Department of Correctional Services.
Ordained Gythia, Temple of Wotan
Small business owner, Neaner Web Design, in operation since 1998, actually making money since 2004
3.47 GPA, baby!!!
January 18th, 2007 Janean
Some of My Favorite Quotes
It’s a great big universe and we’re all really puny, we’re just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney. It’s big and black and inky and we are small and dinky, it’s a big universe and we’re not.
Animaniacs
We have no important enemies. What we need to do is to begin to deal with the rest of the world as equals. And we don’t do that. We spend more as a nation on defense than all the rest of the world put together. Who are we afraid of? Who are you afraid of, Brian? I’m not. And Iraq has never been a threat to us. We invaded them. I mean, it is unbelievable.
Former Senator Mike Gravel
Pagans are people who say yes to life
Friedrich Nietzsche
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some people are like Slinkies . . . not really good for anything, but you still cant help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
It’s not getting what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got
~Sheryl Crow, “Soak Up the Sun”
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A well informed man would not ask this. Everyone knows why. However, if you are the only person so ill-informed as never to have heard, I’ll admit it is better for you to ask once in your foolishness than for you to go on any longer in ignorance of what you ought to know.
~The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind
But I’ve bought a big bat, I’m al ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.
~ Dr. Seuss
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
~Ronald Reagan
The warm love between a man and a woman can’t be frozen like tuna!
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then give up. No use being a damn fool about it.
~ Scott Adams
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You don’t make macaroni pictures of Jesus at Jewish camp!
~ South Park
Darn you! Darn you to everlasting heck.
~ Dilbert, by way of Spiffy
Why are you eating my carrots?
~ Mark Weber
Suffering is having something you don’t want or wanting something you don’t have
~ Elizabeth Elliot
Japanese Proverb: The silent man is the best to listen to.
Don’t do anything illegal, immoral or fattening.
~Dr. Laura
A smile is a curve than can set things straight!
Progress might have been alright once, but it’s gone on too long.
~ Ogden Nash
English Proverb: Don’t fall before you’re pushed.
I’ve read the last page in the Bible. It’s going to turn out alright.
~ Rev. Billy Graham
‘Tis true, ’tis pity and ’tis pity tis true.
Sparky, no matter what anyone tells you, you can never have too much sugar.
~Michael
If God didn’t want us to eat animals he wouldn’t have made them out of meat.
~ Phillip
Two days ago the day after tomorrow was yesterday.
~ Mark Weber
The sould would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
~ John Vance Cheney
Take a second now, it will save a minute later.
~ Michael A Renninger II
Don’t spend $2 to dryclean your shirt. Take it to the Salvation Army instead. They’ll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for 75 cents.
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York and it meows in Los angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
~ Albert Einstein
I can’t wait until this set is over because I have a roll of lifesavers in my pocket and pinapple is next.
When someone’s boobs are in your face, how can you see their soul?
~ Victoria Jackson
Become informed! Tyrants fear an intelligent citizenry.
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the cat, “we’re all mad here. I’m mad, you’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be, “said the cat, “or you wouldn’t be here.”
~ Lewis Caroll
People who live in glass houses … shouldn’t walk around naked.
Danish Proverb: Bad is never good until worse happens.
My cat’s breath smells like cat food.
~ Ralph Wiggum
A broken heart [is] a good deal like a bad tooth… thought you won’t think that a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but in between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there was nothing the matter with it.
~L.M. Montgomery
Mice feel nice for breakfast.
~ Sara Wischnewski
Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is about as effective and trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.
You know sniffing that fluid isn’t as good as drinking it.
~ Mark Weber
There is no point in being well-rounded.
~ Daniel Lewis Nice
Greek Proverb: Kindness begets kindness.
January 17th, 2007 Janean
Space Gypsies
Yeah, I’m a hero. Would you like to hear how I became a world famous celebrity? Well, I’m going to tell you anyway.
It all started back in the summer of 87. I was working in my Garden when my cousin comes up to me and tells me about the space ship he saw last night. Now we all know my cousin is well known for his outrageous lies. So I just shrugged off the words he told me. Maybe if I listened to him none of this would have happened.
The day after cousin Lenny told me of his story I was sitting down to breakfast reading the local paper. The headline said, “Millions Lost in Robbery Yesterday.” It seems that half of my community was robbed of their money and prized possessions. Mr. Gagmay lost about 232 dollars and his favorite game, Parcheesi. Miss Wolfmaster, next-door, was missing her collection of rare birthmarks, her son, Smitty, and her cat. I couldn’t find my eraser that I won at the Winston S. Canstain (inventor of the Gut-Be-Gone abdominal machine) Fair for knocking out the town’s strongest man last Saturday. I knew something was up.
The town called a meeting about the bizarre occurrences that were taking place. Cousin Lenny said it was the strange spaceship he saw that committed the crimes, but no one believed him. The Mayor asked what we should do about this situation. Mr. Zantar suggested we build a giant force field around the town. The Parsky twins thought we should call in the National Guard. My idea seemed to be the most reasonable though. I said we should form a town night watch type thing. Just then a tremendous noise came from the roof of the building. Then the front door opened and in walked the most feared species known to man, an Almighty…Space Gypsy!
“We have taken you valuables and ruined your port-o-potties. Soon we will destroy the entire planet. In turn, making the Planet of the Gypsies the most powerful in the universe,” said the gypsy. Everyone was scared and ran towards their shelters. Not me, I wasn’t about to be pushed around by a measly space gypsy. I then knew what I had to do, but I also knew I wasn’t going to have ant help from the town’s people. I was on my own.
That night I went to Professor Foo’s laboratory. Prof. Foo wasn’t there of course. He was hiding with the rest of them. I shutdown the high security system that protected the one thing that was going to free my town from the rule of the evil Space Gypsies. I opened the door and saw it there under a big sheet. I lifted the sheet to expose the most amazing thing ever invented by man. The Spectacular Awesome Intergalactic Laser(S.A.I.L)!
I charged up the batteries and waited for the Gypsies to arrive. I must have played 50 games of solitaire during my long wait. Then I heard the same sound I heard at the town meeting. I looked up and saw a flying object that was making it’s way through the night sky. I jumped up to the Laser, aimed, and pressed the big red button the said FIRE. An blinding light shot from the machine and struck the UFO right in the wing. Just as I saw my great shot hit the target I realized it wasn’t the Gypsy’s ship but a 747 coming in for a landing at the airport. Bit did I feel embarrassed.
I waited a bit longer and finally the craft arrived. I knew it was the real thing this time by the big neon sign on the vessel that said, “Space Gypsies On Board.” I aimed the Laser carefully at the ship and fired away at full blast! The blast destroyed the spacecraft in an instant. Parts from the ship fell to the ground and by that I knew the war with the Gypsies was over.
I went to the shelters and told the people of the awesome feat I accomplished. Then another Ship landed in the corn field. The Leader of the Gypsies walked and said: “I am Steve, Leader of the Space Gypsies. You have destroyed my loyal army of Gypsies. We surrender to Earth and we will never return here again. I will return your belongings and I apologize for any inconvenience I brought on to you.” Then he flew off into the galaxy.
All the people congratulated me and reporters took my picture. The people of the town were glad when their money, children, lawn jockeys, Christmas lights, gas grills, and every thing else was returned. I became a local celebrity and hero to all the little kids. I got my eraser back and free sundaes whenever I want at Uncle Jim’s Ice Cream Hut. I was also arrested for breaking into Prof. Foo’s Lab., but Lenny got me out on bail. All in all this was the best day of my life.
July 14th, 2006 Janean
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