Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I've had bosses who dinged me in performance appraisals because they *could* tell what I was thinking, and it was "The people in this meeting are idiots and, for the love of god, it's moot point, not mute point."
Hah! Yeha, that one's a lot more likely to bite me than the other one!
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday tommyrot!
{{{JZ}}}It's their problem, not yours. Don't beat yourself up about it.
Someone told me recently that, when you feel like you are going backward, more often than not, it's simply that you are revving up for a leap forward. Reminds me of those Matchbox(tm) cars that we had as kids, that you had to scrape backward to get them to zoom.
In the types of lives that most of us are priviliged to lead, there are actually very few bad steps. Uncomfortable unjolly, wish-it-were-different steps? Sure. But 'duct-taped to a radiator in a serial killer's basement, which I deserve because I'm a bad person' steps? Pretty rare.
"distant" has overtones of steely disregard that I cannot imagine anyone thinking after even a couple minutes in your presence.
Me? Yes. JZ? Never.
he told me that I didn't say hello or goodbye
This sounds like a roommate who insisted that it was the responsability of the person entering to say hello, so the steely silence that greeted me when I came home was all my fault because I didn't say anything as I was coming in. @@@
Jesus Christ, JZ. I'm so sorry. And it was definitely not anything you did or didn't do. Like others have said. Gah -- what fucking fuckers!
In really shallow and possibly now inappropriate news, I now have a full set of fake nails that I think I hate, even though I spent what feels like a ridiculous amount of money on them. I can barely type!
@@@Megan has three eyes? Whoa!
It was just that ridiculous.
Tips for the better faking of your memoir: [link]
And, tommyrot, I am so sorry for hijacking your birthday. You are one of the most awesomest of the Buffistas and totally deserve a birthdaylicious day in Natter.
Oh, don't worry about it. And thanks for the great compliment!
I blame my ex-bosses.
Truly, they are wankers.
he prided himself on being able to read people but he couldn't read me at all and never knew what I was thinking or feeling
Translation: He is such a giant wanker that he can't even get validation of his non-wanker status on the internet like a normal person, and so expects to be buying it from his underlings.
People who talk about how well they read people are very much like (and often overlapping with) people who announce that they're nice guys. Totally a jackwad to get away from.
Yes, this exactly. "I'm good at reading people" is classic Nice Guy™ behavior. IOW, ew.