excitement

It looks like my obnoxious sexaholic next door roommates are going to move. Hallelujah! I don’t have to move! I’ve come to really appreciate the house and the neighborhood over the past year. I like being able to walk to the supermarket or cvs when it’s warmer outside. I can even walk to the library, although it’s a bit of a hike. Best of all, I’m close to all those great hole in the wall restaurants in Wheaton like Full Key and Paul Kee. Yaaayyy!!

update

I’m moving to Kensington in mid-July. I’m really excited about this, since I’ll be living with friends (Liz, from work) and I’ll have a short commute to work (about 10 to 15 minutes).

I’m not looking forward to the actual process of moving. I’ve amassed a lot of books and papers and clothes and miscellany in the five years I’ve lived here in my landlady’s house in College Park. I’m going to miss Peanut and my landlady and her wonderful cooking. I’m NOT going to miss my nasty neighbor Mr. Wang.

Fits me to a tee

The Enneagram test from OKCupid!

4- the Individualist

Thanks for taking the test ! you chose BY – your Enneagram type is FOUR (aka “The Romantic”)

“I am unique”

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

How to Get Along with Me

• Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
• Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
• Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
• Though I don’t always want to be cheered up when I’m feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
• Don’t tell me I’m too sensitive or that I’m overreacting!

What I Like About Being a Four

• my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
• my ability to establish warm connections with people
• admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
• my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
• being unique and being seen as unique by others
• having aesthetic sensibilities
• being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What’s Hard About Being a Four

• experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
• feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don’t deserve to be loved
• feeling guilty when I disappoint people
• feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
• expecting too much from myself and life
• fearing being abandoned
• obsessing over resentments
• longing for what I don’t have

Fours as Children Often

• have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original game s
• are very sensitive
• feel that they don’t fit in
• believe they are missing something that other people have
• attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
• become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
• feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents’ divorce)

Fours as Parents

• help their children become who they really are
• support their children’s creativity and originality
• are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
• are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
• are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed

Renee Baron & Elizabeth Wagele

The Enneagram Made Easy
Discover the 9 Types of People
Harper SanFrancisco, 1994, 161 pages

silliness

I’m so silly I embarass myself. It seems I’m always thinking back to what I said or did and wished I’d done better somehow. I’d like to think these are just growing pains, but sometimes I’m afraid I’m just going to have to get used to being behind in general. I’m *never* going to catch up.

miscellany

Movies I’ve seen:

Boys on the Side: Is Whoopi Goldberg really gay or is she just playing one in this movie? I could see her being one though.

Under the Tuscan Sun: Diane Lane is great in this. I liked her Italian lover’s bottle green eyes. Also, I was very surprised to see Gilmore Girls’ David Sutcliffe at the end of the movie. Christopher!! What are you doing in Italy?! It’s bad enough her mother ran away to Paris. Anyway, a lot of the movie was pretty cliche, but it was okay for a weekend movie.

Next movie in queue: Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. I’ve been meaning to see this one forever. Hope I’m not disappointed.

I baked a veggie lasagna today (canned diced tomatoes, fennel, baby eggplant, canned artichoke hearts). It turned out rather soggy but it still tastes good. Next time I should drain the tomatoes.