maribou | alone time

This one isn't really an epiphany, I suspect. More one of those supposed epiphanies that I actually re-have about every six months. A reminder, if you will.

Oh, I am the biggest freakazoid when it comes to this stuff.
Keirsey-sorter-wise, I come out exactly 50/50 on the introvert/extrovert thing, every time (i guess about 4) that I've taken the test. This seems accurate, but unfortunately it does NOT translate to a nice even keel balance sort of thing.

Hrm. I just tried to explain what it does translate to, but it came out all rambly and odd. So, I'm a split personality, married to an introvert, working a job where my primary responsibilities are all people-intensive. I have a pool from whence the energy for "job" and the energy for "social life" and the energy for "productive not-terribly-fun-endeavors" are all drawn, and there are actually a few ways to fill that pool back up:
1) huge doses of total alone time to do whatever the hell I want
2) a lot of extra physical contact of various sorts (anything from sleeping in with my husband for 2 or 3 mornings in a row to a couple of hours of roughhousing with a large dog)
3) very long, intimate, peaceful conversations with someone I feel safe around
4) reading aloud, either alone (which would fold into 1) or with someone

So, no, i don't *technically* need much alone time at all, if I'm getting a lot of 2, 3, and 4. But pragmatically speaking, alone time is a lot easier for me to insist on than the other 3 (as much as I love reading aloud with someone, for example, one can't exactly stomp up to one of one's friends and say, "You. Me. Yeats. 40 minutes. RIGHT NOW OR ELSE." (hee. that would be nice though.) )

Anyway, just like I have to fill the pool back up, I have also had problems with "floods" in the past.... I can get so I have too much energy and not enough social life/job/useful-and-boring-endeavors to expend it on. It's been *quite* some time since that was the case though.