'I'm a sucker for adopting houseplants that people would otherwise throw away. Sadly, I'm all out of window space, so now I have to turn my back on houseplants that need new homes. *sob*|||My first relationship was with an extrovert. Not having enough alone time brought out all of my worst qualities - I got bitchy, resentful, and passive-aggressive. I'm not going to say I'd never date...|||If all you could feel was his thrusting, he wasn't good at all. Sounds more like you were with a guy who was only fixated on getting himself off, rather than making it a mutually pleasurable...|||37000 words. Having two English majors as parents has some benefit, it seems.|||I definitely believe that feedback isn't always a good thing. Usually for me, no news is good news!|||Assuming you're not prone to frequent nightmares, how can you NOT like dreaming?!|||*so envious*|||Shampoo and conditioner. Yes, it's boring, but I don't want my hair to look like I just stuck my finger in a light socket.|||I've got 0th level NPC written all over me. But since you don't have that as an option in your poll, I'd go with Alchemist, since I'm a chemist in real life.|||I like thinking about trees, too. Conifers are nice!|||I have lots of internal conversations with people who may or may not exist in the real world. Perhaps they're someone I know, or maybe they're characters in a book I read, or just someone I make up....|||I wouldn't put too much stock in that personalityjunkie description. Like any type description, it's a generalization, and not everything in it has to fit every person of that type. If you truly like...|||I don't think I have too bad of a dark side; at my worst, I'm just bitchy and cynical. Sure, I might dearly hope that the human race will go extinct sooner rather than later, but I'd never want to...|||I can appreciate some happy music, but I much prefer my music to be melancholy, even when I'm in a good mood.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEpgiMl1J6g  ...|||Spiders are nice, and I don't mind sharing my living space with them. I do live with someone who smashes them now, so I usually transport them outside (only if it's not too cold out - otherwise, I...|||I'm an INFP who also majored in the sciences and works in a lab. I like the fact that it's not a job that requires me to be a super-outgoing people person, but isn't the stereotypical job for INFPs...|||I try to if I'm conversing with them, but it's not something that comes naturally to me.|||What was the programme about the Plague you mentioned called? It does sound good. I'm sure it wasn't shown in the States, but I can always look to see if I can get it through Netflix or something...|||These particular ones are portrayals (artistic liberty taken, of course) of life in London during the reign of George II. If I remember correctly, Industry and Idleness was done in 1747, and Beer...|||My favorite artist is undoubtedly William Hogarth. There's just so many little meaningful details to discover in his works. I especially like the prints he produced for the general public - on their...|||I have a fondness for ISTJs and their drive and devotion to what they find important. I guess the stereotype of ISTJs is that they're boring, but I can't say I agree with that at all.  EDIT: Just...|||Global 5: sloan RCUEI; sloan+ |R|cuxi; primary Reserved; R(86%)C(56%)U(64%)X(50%)I(60%)  Your Global5/SLOAN type is RCUEI  atheist/agnostic tendencies, unconcerned with public image, lower...|||In no way could you describe anything about me as swaggering, my walk not excepted. I do tend to walk fast, but I keep my head down because good posture just facilitates eye contact with whoever I...|||Unless I have a pre-existing reason to connect with someone (like if someone close to me says that they're cool), I tend to come off as cold. Often presents with flat affect is how my therapist...|||I wouldn't want a tombstone, either. I'd have to check around to find municipalities where it would be legal, but what I would like is to be buried in a cardboard (or otherwise degradable) coffin...|||Not really. I'm plenty interesting to me, and I figure that I'd probably find anyone who thinks otherwise to be pretty boring myself.|||I had another couple of dreams last night that I remember to some degree. I don't remember much of the first, but there was a huge house, and I was able to fly again.   I remember the second one...|||I don't remember most of my dreams, but this one is one of my favorites:  I'm climbing an immensely tall tower, so high that once I'm at the top, I'm amidst the clouds and hazy sunlight and I can...|||Pastels.|||I'd say is that there's a difference between being happy and being upbeat. But I don't think it's impossible to be upbeat and INFP at the same time, either.|||I'll probably be remembered as someone who wasn't very memorable in the she was a good neighbor, mostly kept to herself, I never got to know her very well way.|||ISTJs, I like:  Your quiet determination. Your independence. How you never let anything escape your notice. Your economy of words. How you have so much going on beneath the surface. Your...|||I tend to look at qualities other than type, like interests and beliefs in determining who I want, but if I were to only look at type, I'd say other INFXs, INTPs, and ISXJs. The dichotomy I care...|||Goals? What are those?|||I'm good at math and science. My dream job as a kid was to be a chemist. Now that I actually AM a chemist, I've kind of burned out on it, but hey, at least I have an employable skill...  I still do...|||You don't have to evaluate your own worth in the same way that they measure their worth.|||This thread is so much me. The toys that I play with because they feel left out, the old computers I can't get rid of because they've served me so well, the cars with names and personalities (that's...|||I'm partial to Coleridge, myself. I especially like Christabel, but I don't think there's a poem of his I don't like.|||I thought you were kind of intimidating until I got to know you.  Conversations I have often go like this:  Them: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... Me: *starts to say something but gets...|||I have a tattoo of oak leaves (Q. ellipsoidalis, to be precise) on my lower back to commemorate the tree that grew outside of my bedroom window when I was a kid. I loved the way the morning light...|||From a printout from a MBTI-type test that I did at age 17 for my high school psychology class: ISTJ. I don't know if my type actually changed - I was trying really hard to deny who I really was back...|||I just don't see the point to competition. If the competition is in what's supposed to be a fun activity (like a game), it just sucks the fun out of things. If it's something more important (like...'