Multiple Topics - memory vs experience - Sexy Sirius - Meyer-Brigg - Contentment - Names

[Catlady]

Hi, all, I've spent the last week in a UNIX class. It was fun but kind
of hard, so I had no time to check e-mail, little time to catch
newscasts, and my head is still spinning too much to check my
calendar.... Now I can have caught up on all my e-mail lists except the
main HPfGU list I haven't touched since some time last Monday, and I
can't start on it now -- I have to wash and dress and leave the house
and go interact with real live human beings face to face (frp game).

Sister Mary Lunatic wrote (in post #1319 on 3/28):
> Did you ever see that British musician whose long-term
> memory-making ability was destroyed by a fever?  He
> remembered things from before his illness, but was unable
> to form new memories since then.  His wife could walk
> into his room 25 times in one day, and each time he'd greet
> her like he hadn't seen her for months -- he simply could
> not remember what had happened just a few minutes before.
>  It was very sad, and frightening.

That's what the current movie Memento is about. I haven't seen it, but
it has been much discussed in the media. When Tim heard one of those
chat shows about it and started questioning me, I directed him to read
(actually, listen on cassette, this being Tim) Oliver Sacks'
best-seller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, which describes
several people who had that syndrome (for them, it was Karsakov's
Syndrome caused by alcoholism).

My own knee-jerk response to the original question (would I accept a
year of perfect happiness on condition that I would never remember it?)
was repugnance. I hadn't realised that I was so possessive of my
memories and reluctant to allow them to be taken from me.... in fact, I
had thought that I wished I *could* forget some of my experiences....

Catherine wrote:
> Ebony wrote:
> >   Thinking Sirius sounded... well, a bit too sexy for a character
> > in a book marketed for 8-12 year olds.
> Thank goodness I'm not the only one!
You-uns are far from the only two to have noticed that Sirius is totally
hot -- 'dead sexy' in the phrase that one list member (Alix?) used when
she passed as a press person to shout the question to JKR at the
Hogwarts Express GoF launch party: "Is Sirius Black meant to be dead
sexy?" and JKR IIRC nodded vigorously.

Jen Piersol wrote:
> This test scored me as an INFP (Searcher), while I've
> also been classified as an INTJ

I took a previous test, not the ones that people have been discussing
here, and I came out INXJ. It was a 40 question test and I got 9 out of
10 for I, 8 out of 10 for N (which indicates that the questions were
imperfect: S is SO ALIEN to me), 5 and 5 out of 10 for T and F, and 10
out of 10 for J. That score is what I had guessed based on the
descriptions.

To me, one of the important differences between P and J is that J is
punctual and P is late -- the description said that P takes a deadline
as a signal to START working on the assignment, but some Ps have started
giving themselves false deadlines earlier than the real deadline so that
they will start at the false deadline and thus maybe finish before
getting in trouble with the law or whatever for missing the real
deadline.

> I'm just a jumble of things, really... a SHY jumble. ;)  It's so bad
> that my husband has finally given up trying to make me call people.
> I'd make a bet that I have called to have dinner delivered maybe 6
> times in the (almost) 4 years we've been married... and 2 of those 6
> times were because he was at work and couldn't call for me.
> Sometimes, if he is at work, I'll STILL make him call for me.

Me, too. I desperately HATE placing phone calls and also feel stressed
and terrified if I have to answer one. Except I have learned to *endure*
constant phone use at work.

> Jen (who REALLY needs to check out the list of therapists her
> insurance covers...)

If you're reasonably contented and your job and marriage are mostly okay
and your children (if any) stay out of prison, you don't NEED a
therapist.

SPEAKING OF REASONABLY CONTENTED
the latest question from that book was about being on a 1 to 10 scale
were 1 is misery and struggle and great achievement and 10 is
contentment and peace of mind and no achievement. And eventually I
realised that perfect contentment and perfect peace of mind means that
one is contented and no guilt-tripping about not having any
achievements. So I'll choose that one.

Hamster Al wrote:
> I enclose the list of most popular boys and girls names in the UK for
> the year 2000 (snip) Boys (snip) Wassupp Gerbil

That list is a hoax, right?

Wotan wrote:
> Love that moggie BTW!

Thank you. I stole my sig file cat -- it was in the sig of some girl's
post to one of Tim's porn e-mail lists....

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