Day off
I'm off today. It's a totally dreary day, the kind that would be perfect for staying in your pajamas and watching movies curled up on the couch with the cat. I had a ton to do, though, so that didn't happen. I was woken up at 6:30 by my panicked mother, who forgot it was my day off and thought I was going to be late. Sweet of her to care, although I had been looking forward to sleeping in.
I was able to drift back to sleep, but just before 7, the phone rang. Mom's instructor calling to remind her that her class was moved to tonight. My mom knew this and did not need reminding. Wouldn't you think that, for a Master's class full of adults who have all been working for at least a couple of years, you wouldn't need to *remind* them of a change in the schedule? If you miss it, you miss it. They're adults. Oh well. So I got up at 7. Blah.
I went to Target (I think every parent with a small child goes to Target in the middle of the day on Wednesdays), the post office (postage is expensive, man! I think I paid almost more to mail the things than I did to actually purchase them. Feh.), Best Buy to exchange my hands-free thingy for my cell phone (got a nice new one that reminds me of the girl in the McDonald's Commercial, with a little microphone thingy extending from the ear piece), to get gas, to Woodfield to return a pair of pants that didn't match the shirt I had bought them for (and to get a Mocha Malt Frapuccino.. YUM), then to another Best Buy to purchase something I'd forgotten to get at the first Best Buy.
Whew!
I also made a quiz last night. I had a training class yesterday at work, and they gave us a communication styles quiz. I found it super interesting, so I tried to find it online. No luck with that. I did, however, find a much-shortened version (only three questions), that did not have detailed explanations of the results, and then I found detailed explanations of the results, but no quiz to go along with it. So I put it all together at Quizilla, if any of y'all are interested.
The results probably aren't *real* accurate, being that the scoring is usually done with points and a "most like me" to "least like me" scale, and this way is kind of black-and-white, but they're still interesting to read. What's Your Communication Style? I put my results down in "more," if you're at all interested.
Intuitors place high value on ideas, innovation,
concepts, theory and long-range thinking. They
tend to derive their greatest satisfaction from
the world of possibilities. Often their
imaginative inputs have a way of being a
catalyst for the thinking of those round them.
They tend to be more stimulated and personally
rewarded by intellectual problem-solving
efforts, rather than in implementing solutions.
Intuitors are often respected as fast and deep
thinkers. They reveal excellent imaginations
and ten to question themselves and others.
They challenge because they have learned the
value of continuous probing and reexamination.
They are not accustomed to taking things fro
granted and seem to have an uncanny ability to
anticipate or project- to "know"
before may others around them know. They are
often seen as leaders and great visionaries
with an ability to see relationships between
things than many others do not understand or
are unable to comprehend.
Intuitors tend to accept the fact that disorder and
chaos are inevitable. They are confident of
their ability to grasp the meanings of all the
conflicts about them and tend to see these
conflicts in terms of clashed of major forces,
rather than as her and now situations or
occurrences. They are inclined to look at the
world from the broadest perspective and pride
themselves on their ability to see
interrelationships between divorce or even
abstract parts. They enjoy creating their own
structure out of disorder and excel in
integrative tasks and situations demanding a
long term view.
Because of their interest in the forces of
conflicts and theoretical possibilities,
Intuitors are sometimes seen as "hard to
pin down" or understand. Their question
can sometimes be seen as negative or hostile,
and others will sometimes refer to them as
operating "in a world of their own."
Intuitors usually resent feeling "hemmed
in" by requirements to think or operate in
a structured, well defined manner and may see
others who are concerned about details or the
immediate here-and -nows having really missed
the importance of the "true" issues.
Their inward looking tendencies- drawing
meaning from their imaginations- can be seen by
others as unreal or impractical.
What's Your Communication Style?
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Comments
I agree with the laying in pj's watching movies. Hence our mutual dislike of traveling anywhere... hee hee.. .but anyway. You are probably asleep so I don't want to bother you. Guess who is coming Friday? Yuppers... Jan. I'll try showing him a better time then he has ever had in Germany!!!!!!!! So keep your social calander free. Though a bit of a problem... he is leaving the Sunday after Sarah's party. What am I going to do with him?
Posted by: Aarti | May 14, 2003 10:15 PM