I never learned how to chat with people I don't really know. Small talk just seems so awkward, and I feel like the person I'm talking also feels like I'm wasting their time. But then people will refer to an incident of small talk that I found excruciatingly uncomfortable as a fulfilling conversation. I don't do this human thing very well.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Connie Neil - Nov 14, 2014 5:44:52 pm PST #14393 of 30002
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Nora Deirdre - Nov 14, 2014 5:45:42 pm PST #14394 of 30002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Small talk just seems so awkward, and I feel like the person I'm talking also feels like I'm wasting their time. But then people will refer to an incident of small talk that I found excruciatingly uncomfortable as a fulfilling conversation. I don't do this human thing very well.
Beer helps.
Steph L. - Nov 14, 2014 6:12:04 pm PST #14395 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Small talk just seems so awkward, and I feel like the person I'm talking also feels like I'm wasting their time. But then people will refer to an incident of small talk that I found excruciatingly uncomfortable as a fulfilling conversation. I don't do this human thing very well.
Beer helps.
TRUTH.
askye - Nov 14, 2014 7:05:22 pm PST #14396 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I'm pretry good at small talk . It's what comes after I suggest with.
In work news it was announced we will be open 5 pm - 1 am thanksgiving day then open 8 am on Black Fiday. WhI changed seems late to me so I expect it to change. Last year we were open from 5 pm thanksgiving straight though to 10 or 11 pm Friday. I guess they didn't make en I ugh money between 1 am and 8 am to justify being open.
WindSparrow - Nov 15, 2014 4:54:11 am PST #14397 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
There is so much injustice in this world - whole thing looks like it's headed for the nether regions in a modest hand-crafted container made from stiff plant fibers. I can't fix everything that's wrong. And to be honest, I don't know that I can fix anything. But I know it is more than I can do to fight on all fronts. Tell me it isn't wrong to pick one to focus on and let the others go. I feel like I'm drowning - I know others are in deeper, but I can barely swim, let alone pull anyone else out of the current.
brenda m - Nov 15, 2014 5:33:27 am PST #14398 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
You have to, Andi. Put on your oxygen mask before helping others. You add so much joy and caring to the world, that's important. Maybe more important than finding things to fix.
Calli - Nov 15, 2014 11:07:16 am PST #14399 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Tell me it isn't wrong to pick one to focus on and let the others go.
It's not wrong to pick one to focus on and let the others go. It's really not. If you try to do everything you'll end up unable to contribute to anything well, and you'll burn yourself out in the meantime.
Hil R. - Nov 16, 2014 10:13:23 am PST #14400 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So. Um. OK Cupid guy asked if we can consider ourselves "official," and I said yes. So we're official, whatever that means. (And I asked him not to mention it on facebook for now, because of my mother asking questions that I don't feel like dealing with. I'm figuring, if we're still seeing each other once we get to winter break, I'll tell her then. I should probably tell him that, so he doesn't think this is indefinitely facebook-secret.)
Steph L. - Nov 16, 2014 10:18:52 am PST #14401 of 30002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
That sounds like a good thing, Hil. Yay!
lisah - Nov 16, 2014 10:29:38 am PST #14402 of 30002
Punishingly Intricate
That's great, Hil!!! And, yeah, letting him know why you don't make it "FB official" yet is probably a good idea.