A Curious Girl: 'Just two people that got stuck together'

I hate work, I hate work, I hate work. I really can't get down to that Chaucer essay, but if I don't get it down it's only going to hang over me. What if I just refused to do it? They'd probably knock me off English Lit. So maybe it's not really a good idea.

I took the Spark's Personality Test again... Instead of being a Submissive Introverted Abstract Feeler (Dreamer) this time I was a Submissive Introverted Concrete Thinker (Accountant). Didn't much like their name for it, but it sounded much less wishy washy that the other one :-) Introversion and extroversion (or extraversion) are interesting things. I discovered that the reason I am an introvert is that I have a weak nervous system (Eynsenck) and am easily aroused (not sexually). So it means that introverted people don't like loud music and bright lights, and are generally more sensitive to people. I think I'm on the more extroverted end of introvert, but I'm still most definitely an introvert. I don't mind. Jung valued them equally, Mum seems to think they are better (I told her about introverts being more altruistic, and she said that's because extroverts are all "ME!" all the time. Or something like that. She is, obviously, an introvert). Jung was an introvert. Eynsenck, in my not very humble opinion, is an extrovert; that's why he makes introverts sound rather pathetic, being submissive and having 'weak' nervous systems!! Although he did say that extroverts get bored easily, and introverts are more sensitive. But he still made extroversion sound better.

John Hobbs referred to Chris as "Your dykey friend" today, claiming that we were a typical lesbian couple or something. Teasingly. So I slapped him one and told him that my girlfriend would be insulted that he was claiming I was going out with Christina. I don't think he was serious :-) It was just amusing, considering that Chris and I are always talking about boys, mainly about how cute Andy is and how I'm going to ask David out or something (not that we've spoken about that in a while).

Learned some more Experanto. Bonega!

We watched a video on twins in Psychology. It was so damned annoying. First they were claiming that all identical twins (monozygotic as opposed to dizygotic, if you want the technical term) are exactly alike in every single way. There were loads of twins in Twinsburgh all dressed identically to each other. Very collectivist. It just kinda annoyed me that they couldn't function as individuals (this may be projection, but it doesn't seem likely). Sam and Jenny (my cousins) are perfectly separate people - although I wonder if the way that Andy and Maria used to dress Sam (slightly taller) in blue and Jenny in pink had some effect on their perception of them as people. Sam's more practical, whereas Jenny is more interested in pretty things. I think Sam's a bit louder as well, but I can't be sure. They are both adorable.

Then Darren E. showed a bit later on with the conjoined twins in America - Lori and Reba, I think. Whatever. One is a country and western singer, the other a nurse, and they take separate showers. Darren E. said it was a bit of a freak show, kind of a Ricki Lake type thing. Ricki Lake is a freak show, with obese people, people obsessive about TV shows, gay-people-who-are-not-anymore, people with freaking big egos and so on. But this shouldn't have been, except the interviewer kept asking stupid questions like, "Do you see yourselves as individuals?" Like, duh! They have different clothes, different hair, different jobs, different interests and they take separate showers!! And the other one was, "If Lori should get married, would you share the intimacy betwen her and her husband?" And she replied, "No, he would be my brother-in-law." Just because they're conjoined doesn't mean they're the same person!

In the words of Abbi, conjoined to Britney, "Don't laugh at conjoined twins; they're just two people that got stuck together."

A couple of stupid people in the class kept laughing at them in the short break he gave us between periods, laughing at Reba's legs and saying that their hair was bad, and kept saying incredulously stuff about them having separate jobs and Lori having sex with someone, because they couldn't believe it. Don't be dumb! The other twin would just switch off during that time. What else can you do? It really annoyed me, because I actually know something about conjoined twins having watched some programmes on them before, and they aren't freaks! Polly Toynbee called them 'fascinatingly horrible freaks of nature' and that really riled me; all that stuff with Jodie and Mary, where journalists and the Judge even referred to them as a 'creature'. This kind of prejudice so irritates me. Maybe because it's something I know I struggle with.

So what if they have bad hair? I admire them.

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