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Sunday, July 23, 2006
Dreams and stuff...
Aren't dreams funny? Once I'm more qualified it's an area I want to do alot of research in. How you can dream about things you're worried about, how you can find solutions to problems in your sleep and other such things... It's all so strange, especially since the leading medical views on dreams are that it's simply random neuronal activity with no deeper meaning whatsoever!!
In other news, I am sorry for not updating more frequently, but I have been on detached duty at another office recently, so I have been getting up earlier and coming home later. Since I got a permanent job in the recruitment drive, but I will be taking a pay cut, I need to show how competent I am, in hope of getting a promotion back to the span I am at currently.
The house situation is coming along, seems we are almost ready to set a completion date, so I am getting quite giddy!!
In other news, I am sorry for not updating more frequently, but I have been on detached duty at another office recently, so I have been getting up earlier and coming home later. Since I got a permanent job in the recruitment drive, but I will be taking a pay cut, I need to show how competent I am, in hope of getting a promotion back to the span I am at currently.
The house situation is coming along, seems we are almost ready to set a completion date, so I am getting quite giddy!!
Currently Listening to:
Rock Guitar Music
Current Song Playing:
Steve Vai - All About Eve
Mood - Tired, but excited
Rock Guitar Music
Current Song Playing:
Steve Vai - All About Eve
Mood - Tired, but excited
Labels: dreams, life, psychoanalysis, work
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Jung Personality Test... Apparently
Ok, I just took a propper psychological personality test. It show's your "Jung" personality style, apparently, but I can't imagine Jung wasting time with a personality test in an analytic environment, to be honest. But it said he invented it, and I will trust it:
Jung Explorer Test
Actualized type:
ENFP
(who you are)
Extroverted (E) 67.65% Introverted (I) 32.35% Intuitive (N) 56.1% Sensing (S) 43.9% |
| ENFP |
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Preferred type:
ENFP
(Who you prefer to be)
Extroverted (E) 75% Introverted (I) 25% |
Attraction type:
ENFP
(who you are attracted to)
Extroverted (E) 59.38% Introverted (I) 40.63% Intuitive (N) 61.11% Sensing (S) 38.89% |
Now it's a shame that Catherine isn't one of these ENFP types, though she's not the kind of woman I'm usually attracted to, either. But there is something special about Catherine that makes her better than my 'normal' type. lol
Labels: psychoanalysis, quizzes
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Well...
It certainly seems that I wasn't wrong with my last post. I find it quite ironic that the only post here now with advertising comment-spam is the one where I complained about advertising comment-spam. Berloody Rediculous.
Anyway, If you haven't read my MSN Space you won't know I've moved house, it was MAD! So stressful and Catherine wanted everything sorted straight away, so no relaxing after lugging heavy boxes in from the van oh no!! We spent the following two weeks getting everything sorted, painting the house (we did ask the landlady first, don't worry) and moving furniture about. After that, I started looking for a job again, and again, I couldn't get one, cos I don't have the BPS accreddiatation. So there we go...
Then I finally gave up on pyschology, I'm taking the BPS Qualifying Exam in June and psychology can wait until after that. I joined a temp agency and I'm now working for the government. I'm an AO/Span 3 in the Tribunal Service in the Visit Visa section, dealing mostly with appeals for family visit clearance from Pakistan and Nigeria. It's not bad and it pays well, so I'm happy doing that for now.
I wrote to a few psychoanalysts yesterday, asking for advice on how to get to where I want to be. Afterall, I'm not going to do a PhD in clinical psychology, so jobs in the NHS are pretty limited and highly competed, fingers crossed I'll hear back sometime soon.
Also, I've not used Windows now for almost three months... hee hee!! Been using ubuntu linux, with KDE (not kubuntu, ubuntu with KDE) and once I have the time, I'm planning on playing around with linux from scratch to learn a bit more, before settling with gentoo, since LFS doesn't have a very easy update mechinism.
Anyway, If you haven't read my MSN Space you won't know I've moved house, it was MAD! So stressful and Catherine wanted everything sorted straight away, so no relaxing after lugging heavy boxes in from the van oh no!! We spent the following two weeks getting everything sorted, painting the house (we did ask the landlady first, don't worry) and moving furniture about. After that, I started looking for a job again, and again, I couldn't get one, cos I don't have the BPS accreddiatation. So there we go...
Then I finally gave up on pyschology, I'm taking the BPS Qualifying Exam in June and psychology can wait until after that. I joined a temp agency and I'm now working for the government. I'm an AO/Span 3 in the Tribunal Service in the Visit Visa section, dealing mostly with appeals for family visit clearance from Pakistan and Nigeria. It's not bad and it pays well, so I'm happy doing that for now.
I wrote to a few psychoanalysts yesterday, asking for advice on how to get to where I want to be. Afterall, I'm not going to do a PhD in clinical psychology, so jobs in the NHS are pretty limited and highly competed, fingers crossed I'll hear back sometime soon.
Also, I've not used Windows now for almost three months... hee hee!! Been using ubuntu linux, with KDE (not kubuntu, ubuntu with KDE) and once I have the time, I'm planning on playing around with linux from scratch to learn a bit more, before settling with gentoo, since LFS doesn't have a very easy update mechinism.
Currently Listening to:
Nothing
Current Song Playing:
Nothing
Mood - Sleepy
Nothing
Current Song Playing:
Nothing
Mood - Sleepy
Labels: computers, house, life, linux, psychoanalysis, rants, work
Monday, April 18, 2005
Pheew!!
I am back from campus, and I have sucessfully completed both my couselling presentation and my work and organisations essay. Well, the presentation I have to perform tomorrow, but I really am not worried about that. I am doing the psychoanalysis section, so it'll be pretty easy.
On the other hand, my work and organisations essay is the biggest POS I ever wrote. But it's all Ok. As long as I still get 63% or more on every piece of work from now on (and on my counselling essay, which I've not got back yet) then I will still scrape a 2:1.
Also, while procrastinating yesterday, I found this little article. It bascially describes the major differences between what Microsoft thinks about Open Source, and the truth. MS are clearly scared of the Open Source movement, that why we get the FUD marketing strategies, like the "Get The Facts" campaign. A good read, very enlightening.
Catherine's not here right now, she's doing her presentation for her dissertation, if he does it as well as she's been doing it here, for me, she'll be fine, though. Since she's not here, I'm listening to my music. She won't let me listen to rap music when she's here. Don't get me wrong, I don't listen to 50 Cent or any of that "I'm so cool cos I used to sell drugs and I sleep with lots of women" stuff. It was all Ok about ten years ago, and I still listen to NWA and 2Pac, BIG etc... But nowadays, it's all awful and overdone... Bah!!!
On the other hand, my work and organisations essay is the biggest POS I ever wrote. But it's all Ok. As long as I still get 63% or more on every piece of work from now on (and on my counselling essay, which I've not got back yet) then I will still scrape a 2:1.
Also, while procrastinating yesterday, I found this little article. It bascially describes the major differences between what Microsoft thinks about Open Source, and the truth. MS are clearly scared of the Open Source movement, that why we get the FUD marketing strategies, like the "Get The Facts" campaign. A good read, very enlightening.
Catherine's not here right now, she's doing her presentation for her dissertation, if he does it as well as she's been doing it here, for me, she'll be fine, though. Since she's not here, I'm listening to my music. She won't let me listen to rap music when she's here. Don't get me wrong, I don't listen to 50 Cent or any of that "I'm so cool cos I used to sell drugs and I sleep with lots of women" stuff. It was all Ok about ten years ago, and I still listen to NWA and 2Pac, BIG etc... But nowadays, it's all awful and overdone... Bah!!!
Currently Listening to:
Lots of Different Stuff
Current Song Playing:
KRS-ONE - HipHop Knowledge
Mood - Relieved
Lots of Different Stuff
Current Song Playing:
KRS-ONE - HipHop Knowledge
Mood - Relieved
Labels: computers, life, psychoanalysis, university
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Why?!?
Why do you have to commit yourself to a type of psychology to follow? If you ask any psychologist of any kind what type of psychologist (s)he is, they will be able to answer you. You will recieve any number of responses "I'm a Marxist Lacanian psychologist with an interest in discourse" or "I'm a critical social psychologist" or "I'm a Freudian/Jungian/Eriksonian/Kleinian psychoanalyst"... The list goes on...
Why do you have to be anything? Can't you just be an open-minded psychologist? There's worth in every area of psychology. I disagree almost wholly with Jungian psychoanalysis, but I think his theory on dreams is more comprehensive than Freud's. Everyone has something to offer, so why must we commit ourselves to one type? I was thinking this after my therapy today... My therapist is a "person centered" therapist (technically a counsellor, since I only see her 1x a week) but she's never said that's what she is, and she just seems open-minded to me. I want to be like her. She uses Gestalt techniques, person-centered techniques, she's willing to discuss things in relation to the past (which a person-centered person would normally reject any relevence of) and as a result, I feel she's a great therapist.
I was thinking about this because I'm suppose dto be writing an essay:
Why do you have to be anything? Can't you just be an open-minded psychologist? There's worth in every area of psychology. I disagree almost wholly with Jungian psychoanalysis, but I think his theory on dreams is more comprehensive than Freud's. Everyone has something to offer, so why must we commit ourselves to one type? I was thinking this after my therapy today... My therapist is a "person centered" therapist (technically a counsellor, since I only see her 1x a week) but she's never said that's what she is, and she just seems open-minded to me. I want to be like her. She uses Gestalt techniques, person-centered techniques, she's willing to discuss things in relation to the past (which a person-centered person would normally reject any relevence of) and as a result, I feel she's a great therapist.
I was thinking about this because I'm suppose dto be writing an essay:
"Discuss the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Person Centred Approach to Counselling in Comparison to the Psychodynamic Approach"
And I was thinking about these two approaches. Although they seem very different, they might actually be very very similar. And I was thinking about this and I decided that once I'm fully qualified, I'll not stick to a particular framework, I'll be fluid and build the therapeutic setting depending on the needs of the patient... Shouldn't that be what it's all about anyway??
Bah! Psychologists!!! lol
Bah! Psychologists!!! lol
Labels: life, psychoanalysis, rants, university, work
I'm back...
Well, I already wrote this whole thing once. So I'm not impressed. I guess it serves me right for using the nightly firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050308 Firefox/1.0+) For my general usage. I think it makes me a better tester to always use it. Meh!!
Ok, so here's the news. I went to Manchester on Monday. I was up at 4:30am and on the 6:50am train to Manchester. I must have spent an hour waiting at bus/train stations before I got on the train. 4½ hours later I was in Manchester Piccadilly station, By Heck!! It's bigger than London King's Cross Station, I nearly got lost!!
Mind you, I did get lost once I got out of the station. I asked directions at the station information desk, and a guy told me to go straight down the road and turn right at the 2nd set of traffic lights, where I would find a bus station... From my gatherings, I think he might have meant left! I spent 30mins wandering around Manchester looking for anything that might give me a hint of where I was going, until I eventually found my way back to the train station and asked for directions on how to walk to the Met Uni, since I had already tried looking for busses, lol. This was a lot easier, even though I'd been walking for an hour and a half by the time I got there, and I was still 50 minutes early!!
He let me go right up, and, having got lost again, I finally found him 10 minutes later!
The interview went well, we discussed my proposal and we talked about all it's problems so I can make a better idea of what I'm gonna do. We also somehow spent ages talking about philosophy/sociology of psychology and psychoanalysis. It was great, I've never had a discussion like that... It was really fun!!
Now, here comes the bad bit... He said there's no funding there. The ESRC doesn't recognise the unit as eligible for funding, and there's no MMU studentship money been allocated yet. So he simply told me to push my application at Loughborough. And I'm hoping that he's spoken to the guy there and said how great I am!! Fingers crossed, eh?
In other news, lol, I went out into Retford on Monday night, I'd not have been back in Norwich until 0:30am Tues, so I stayed at my mum's. There was only Wendy and Jo out, so it was a nice quiet drink, until Wenna started drinking, then it got loud. Mind you, I've not laughed like that in ages. I had a really great time, but I always do with Wenna.
However, I got worried once I got home that I'd done something wrong, I promised Wenna I'd walk her home, cos I was going a similar way anyway, but I left her at the end of the road, so as not to make her b.f jelaous. We'd been joking about her getting drunk and naked for me, and wasn't sure she'd taken it as a joke, so I had to text her to make sure, and to apologise for leaving her at the end of her road. Unfortunaltely, her b.f read the text, so now I'm in trouble... Just another example of where nothing goes wrong, I convince myself it has, and I cock everything up by trying to 'fix' the imaginary problem... Apparently therapy isn't moving me forward as fast as I had thought... I have my review with my therapist today at 2 though. So I'll see how that goes, aswell...
Note: I'm still looking for help on the CSS and stuff on here :p Thanks
Edit: Wenna just e-mailed me, we're cool :o)
Ok, so here's the news. I went to Manchester on Monday. I was up at 4:30am and on the 6:50am train to Manchester. I must have spent an hour waiting at bus/train stations before I got on the train. 4½ hours later I was in Manchester Piccadilly station, By Heck!! It's bigger than London King's Cross Station, I nearly got lost!!
Mind you, I did get lost once I got out of the station. I asked directions at the station information desk, and a guy told me to go straight down the road and turn right at the 2nd set of traffic lights, where I would find a bus station... From my gatherings, I think he might have meant left! I spent 30mins wandering around Manchester looking for anything that might give me a hint of where I was going, until I eventually found my way back to the train station and asked for directions on how to walk to the Met Uni, since I had already tried looking for busses, lol. This was a lot easier, even though I'd been walking for an hour and a half by the time I got there, and I was still 50 minutes early!!
He let me go right up, and, having got lost again, I finally found him 10 minutes later!
The interview went well, we discussed my proposal and we talked about all it's problems so I can make a better idea of what I'm gonna do. We also somehow spent ages talking about philosophy/sociology of psychology and psychoanalysis. It was great, I've never had a discussion like that... It was really fun!!
Now, here comes the bad bit... He said there's no funding there. The ESRC doesn't recognise the unit as eligible for funding, and there's no MMU studentship money been allocated yet. So he simply told me to push my application at Loughborough. And I'm hoping that he's spoken to the guy there and said how great I am!! Fingers crossed, eh?
In other news, lol, I went out into Retford on Monday night, I'd not have been back in Norwich until 0:30am Tues, so I stayed at my mum's. There was only Wendy and Jo out, so it was a nice quiet drink, until Wenna started drinking, then it got loud. Mind you, I've not laughed like that in ages. I had a really great time, but I always do with Wenna.
However, I got worried once I got home that I'd done something wrong, I promised Wenna I'd walk her home, cos I was going a similar way anyway, but I left her at the end of the road, so as not to make her b.f jelaous. We'd been joking about her getting drunk and naked for me, and wasn't sure she'd taken it as a joke, so I had to text her to make sure, and to apologise for leaving her at the end of her road. Unfortunaltely, her b.f read the text, so now I'm in trouble... Just another example of where nothing goes wrong, I convince myself it has, and I cock everything up by trying to 'fix' the imaginary problem... Apparently therapy isn't moving me forward as fast as I had thought... I have my review with my therapist today at 2 though. So I'll see how that goes, aswell...
Note: I'm still looking for help on the CSS and stuff on here :p Thanks
Edit: Wenna just e-mailed me, we're cool :o)
Labels: life, psychoanalysis, university, work
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Packing :o(
Well... I'm all ready and packing for tomorrow! I'm terrified as hell... I have to be on the 6:50 train, and I have to be wide awake for my interview for 2pm... 
Meh! I hope he's understanding of my situation, I will be on the train for five and a half hours and most likely won't be awake long enough to do any of the necessary reading! If I mess this up, then it sorta screws everything up for Catherine aswell :oWish me luck!!
Also, if anyone can help me stop all my pictures having a nasty thick white border around them, I'd appreciate it :o) Ta.
Meh! I hope he's understanding of my situation, I will be on the train for five and a half hours and most likely won't be awake long enough to do any of the necessary reading! If I mess this up, then it sorta screws everything up for Catherine aswell :oWish me luck!!Also, if anyone can help me stop all my pictures having a nasty thick white border around them, I'd appreciate it :o) Ta.
Labels: life, psychoanalysis, university, work
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