Monday, September 15

the cult of personality

during one of my cheap therapy sessions. i mean grad school classes, we took the meyers-briggs. ever hear of it?
yeah, yeah, your typical personality test. like in seventeen, or vogue where in an effort to understand yourself and others, you answer all these questions to help you understand your:
a) contextual self
who you are in a given environment
b) developed self
your choices, free will and habitual contextual self become your developed self
and finally,
c) true self
your dna

so, we took this survey and my therapist, i mean professor, scored us and labeled us.
nothing like being labeled, discussing that label with a group of people and then finding out how people feel about that label. awesome!
so i am labeled as the most sociable of all personalities (duh). i base all decisions on how they will affect people (duh). i am a helper, a facilitator, and a apparently my main objective in life is to assure the happiness of others. (hmmm) most of this was not news to me. nor was the fact that i am very concrete and must have things planned out.....
which is where the story takes an ugly turn.
see, we have been in school for 3 weeks now and today was basically a "do-over" of the first day of school. we started the year out with a new principal and when the old one principal left, he took the master schedule with him, allegedly. so, the counselors and "scheduling experts" (hmmm, is that where the $64 million went?) have been working on said schedule for 3 weeks. this is exactly how i feel. and probably look too. yikes!


apparently
the new atom smasheris a lot less complicated than making sure 7th graders get their required credits of gym, math, or lunch scheduled correctly.

the thing is i can respect a good cluster______. however when every friday you tell me that on monday the situation is resolved and come monday that situation is still not resolved and that happens not only once, not only twice, but three times....trust issues begin to surface. i'm only taking one class this semester, so not enough therapy to include multiple issues, you know?

so, in reference to aforementioned personality test that so obviously pointed out my concrete sequential-ness and need for order, i can't funtion! my home life has suffered. i cannot get a routine going at school, which means i cannot get a routine going at home. i can't eat. i can't sleep. i got sick! fall premieres are still a week away!
i know! right?
okay, things got ironed out today and the space time continuum should cease its unraveling.(insert huge sigh of relief here).
all that to say that regular blog posts?...should be coming back as order is being restored. besides, i think i was wearing dave out by talking to him instead of posting to both my readers.

1 people said stuff:

a-townblog said...

I don't know Dave..but I'm guessing he's the I to your Meyer's-Brigg's E?