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WISHING ALL FRIENDS A HAPPY 2008

It has actually been quite difficult to decide exactly what intellegence is, because it manifiests itself in many ways, but I believe I have captured the essence of it below:

Intelligence is the ability to understand and reason, the ability to acquire and retain knowledge, and the ability to use reason and knowledge to express oneself with relative ease.

Wikipedia has an excellent definition that comes from Mainstream Science on Intelligence, which was signed by 52 intelligence researchers in 1994:

a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on", "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.

Wishing you all A Very Happy Christmas.

Further to my post of yesterday, during the course of which I wrote about what I don't want in a man, I wonder if any of you can guess what I do want? I'd love to know what you think, and if you're kind enough to indulge me, I'll let you know what kind of man would interest me.

Sometimes I look at myself and I think, woman, you really are not quite right in the head, are you? For who in their right mind would join a dating agency and then look at what is on offer and decide there is nothing? I'm a tiny bit pissed off with myself because although I do want a man in my life, I really don't want one. Oh, I'd like the going out, the conversations, the sex, but I wouldn't like the emotional part - the becoming involved with someone knowing all the time it could end in tears, and that those tears could well be mine. Yet to do the whole thing without emotional involvement would be a poor excuse for a relationship.

Anyway, I joined this agency and then had a look at what was on offer. Out of a thousand possible suitors, I found five I quite liked the look of. I got in touch with one of them. He seemed like a suitable candidate because he lives a long way away, frequently works in foreign lands, and he isn't looking for a wife (which I have no intention of becoming again). He ticked all the right boxes in other ways too, but somehow the correspondence was not an easy one, and it ended. I had another look at the other four - three of them had disappeared, and I found that I didn't like the look of the remaining one that much after all.

I find that these days I'm more difficult to please than when I was young (not that I was easy to please then). I look at the photos of these possible suitors and I've rejected so many of them because either they look like my husband, or they have a beard, or they look too sure of themselves, or the photos are at least twenty years old, or I don't like the look in their eyes. The photos aren't the only hurdles - if I don't like their username or description, they fall by the wayside. If they describe themselves as attractive, when they so obviously aren't, they are rejected, and so it goes. No wonder I only managed to find five out of a possible thousand. Actually, maybe it's a wonder I did find five.

A few have written to me, but they haven't appealed to me. I did write back to them a few times, but I figure if I don't feel any affinity with them after half a dozen exchanges, it just isn't going to happen, so why waste my time and theirs. I just wish I'd had more sense in the first place and not wasted my money. I think I'm as likely (maybe even more so) to find someone in the supermarket as through a dating agency.

Your IQ score is 135!
Insightful Linguist

You are gifted with the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. Insightful linguists can take complex concepts and articulate them to just about anyone. You have a gift with words and an insight into processes and the way people think.

These talents enable you to explain things clearly to people as you can conceptualise ideas internally and understand patterns on an abstract level.

I took the IQ test here

In the night I wrote a whole load about the above IQ test results, and none of it was saved. It would have been nice if Blog.co.uk's automatic save facility had been working, but I won't blame them entirely for I should have saved it myself, particularly as I'd read in someone's blog that it wasn't working earlier in the day. However, Blog and myself can't share all the responsibility as my computer has resumed editorial control again by randomly switiching itself off. As I write I can't help wondering if this too shall be disappeared. We shall see.

I fear I may have lost my sense of humour, it rarely being to hand these days. Thankfully, Captain Autumn still makes me laugh, as do Emsbabee, Lindow and Juzzzy; and several more manage to tease out a chuckle, but I rarely seem to make others laugh (not with particular reference to here, but 'the real world'). There used to be a lot of laughter in my life. Sad, isn't it?

Actually, something has caused me amusement, in a preverse* sort of way, but I'll write about that another time.

*Sorry, it should be perverse - thank you Captain Autumn. I think what is really sad, is that after all these years, I still can't spell properly, and it's not for want of trying, I assure you.