conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

up early

I found one of those wondrous horoscope entries again. Rob Brezney always makes me feel better about life. Ha! Point and laught, ye who know. This is rich.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Psychotherapy obsesses on what's wrong with people and gives short shrift to what's right. The manual of the profession is a 943-page text called the *DSM- IV* that identifies scores of pathological states but no healthy ones. I often complain about this tragic fact and ask my readers to help me compile material for a proposed *Anti-DSM-IV,* a compendium of all the positive, noble, feel-good categories. One reader, Alka Bhargava, has suggested a condition that you Aquarians will be able to achieve regularly this week. He calls it "Joyful Poignance," and describes it like this: "The ability to be buoyantly joyful while remaining aware of the sadness, injustices, ancient wounds, and future fears that form the challenges in an examined life."

Now I am off to read about my MBTI. I am an INFP. This is no great shock. What finally explains something for me, like how the heck I am introverted, is that I am an "Enthusiastic INFP." On the test, there are sub-categories. Each subcategory helps you see in what ways you are Introverted and in what ways you are Extroverted, for example. So, I am indeed an Introvert (though not a strong one), but I tested Extrovert in the "Enthusiastic/Quiet" scale. See? So, I'm a loud Introvert. Does that not just clear all the smoke away for you?

I am so tired of this mess. One more day...one more day...one more day...