I always assumed that was because only one of mine actually works at any given time.

Me three!

So, after taking 2 days off due to sickness, I am back at work today. I still don't feel very well, and I am exhausted. I need a nap really badly.

Every time someone looks at me too long I think they're a creeper in the bad touch way.

Hm, okay. I consider that aggression, actually. Someone wanting to do something to me that they know I don't want.

Strangely for an introvert, when I'm in "public" mode I often do the alpha-eye-contact thing too. I have no problem with public speaking.

OMG, I made the worst eye contact faux pas once, because I forgot the guy could see me.

That's an excellent story! And a happy ending too.

"firm handshake,use first name to create intimacy," thing

I like a firm (not painful!) handshake. A weak handshake turns me off. But the first name thing annoys me deeply. I'm totally comfortable with a stranger calling me "honey" (if it's that Southern faux-affection thing) but I don't want people using my first name to "create intimacy" that isn't there. I got snippy with a telemarketer last night because he not only opened with my first name, he mispronounced it. Double fail, dude. You get no money.

Time Team is the best! And the Globe has no roof, which can be terrible in the cheap seats, not that there are seats in the cheap seats. Also, I did some some of the material from the playhouses sites (the Rose mostly) and presented at the launch of the book on the excavations, which was super fun, and held at the Globe.

But! Time Team! Tony Robinson is a bit of a perv, in that most of the lady archs know not to accept a lift home from him, sort of a way. But Mick Aston is AWESOME. I went to a lecture of his once where someone asked why Time Team never dug around Bristol (which is where Mick's research area is) and he answered "because you don't shit where you eat, son." Awesome.

I decided not to make the trek up to Ottawa for the memorial services. I just don't think I can deal with another round trip flight across the country this week.

*However* I probably make and maintain more eye contact than, say, Steph is comfortable with, when I'm in a solid and alpha mood. Especially in a public speaking/meeting context

Hey, I'm ita! (Wait, didn't I come to this realization the last time we had the eye contact discussion?)

A comment I wanted to make about the friendship/walking away from friendships discussion (at the risk of going into "me me me" land): sometimes the only thing to do is walk away, because no amount of explaining or discussion on either side will smooth out. There is someone I was very good friends with; thanks to some REALLY bad decisions on both our parts, we aren't friends any more. I know they would love to have a very long talk with me explaining their side, and what went on in their head. It's not going to happen. I don't have the emotional reserves for it, and the discussion would cause more damage than it would be worth.

So sometimes, you cut ties and don't give the other person any options for discussion. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I consider that aggression, actually.

I don't think someone having dirty thoughts about me is aggressive. That's in the act. I think maintaining eye contact because you have the hots for someone is rude--expecting them to respond and exerting pressure to that end is aggressive.

bon has tried to explain to me that I'm just too name sensitive. Okay, I own it. But *never* call me by my first name unless we've been introduced. Christ, my migraine specialist still calls me by my last name.

Not least of all because you're 75% going to fuck it up, and chances were good I wasn't going to tell it to you anyway, Coffee Person. Cheating off my debit card is just that--cheating.

Tony Robinson is a bit of a perv

Mick Aston is AWESOME.

I love the enthusiasm and inclusiveness of Time Team. The idea that the public can be so engaged in history and the sciences involved with the digs...for TEN YEARS...says something very complimentary which could not, I fear, be said for America.

Also, I did some some of the material from the playhouses sites (the Rose mostly) and presented at the launch of the book on the excavations, which was super fun, and held at the Globe.

This is amazingly cool.

I love Time Team and wish I could watch it online. Occasionally I catch eps that someone posts on YouTube but they get yanked pretty regularly.

I am an overtly friendly person in public. I speak to strangers all the time. I address passersby. I will pat your dog.

This:

Cheating off my debit card is just that--cheating.

Gives me the creeps. When a cashier calls me by my first name off my card, it really, truly bothers me...and I'm not even sure why. I know what they are doing, and I don't even have an issue with it being disrespectful. It just really, really bothers me. I don't have a decent retort, but I do walk away with a very bad feeling.