Douglas time
I was checking out Wikiquote and of course noticed the section on Douglas Adams on the front page and had to check it out. And after reading this page, I realized that many of these quotes were usable and funny and more embarrasingly seem to apply to me in some ways. I’ve picked two out that I think truly apply to my life at the moment:
- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.
- It takes an awful long time to not write a book.
Now I know that I’m not on any real deadlines (well except maybe lifespan) except for those that I create for myself. These self-imposed deadlines do in fact make a bit of a sound as they fly by. But then again I do have a very vivid, and some would say delusionary, imagination.
I sometimes think that I come up with some snippet or full blown idea of story or fantasy every single day. Other days, I don’t think about it all, probably because I’m too busy daydreaming or playing out conversations in my head. Those of you who know me in real life know that unless I’m truly excited about something (and someone is actually listening), I could probably be considered mute. I’m just not a talkative person and I am not chatty. Well, unless I’ve been drinking and then I usually say too much.
At the resort there was a German chef who wandered table to table to talk to everyone every night. When he got to our table it was generally quite awkward. I joked with my wife that I need a sign to hold up that read: “I am not good at chit-chat.” I could hold this sign up immediately after the hello’s and watch the people’s confused faces as they turned and left. But it really wouldn’t work would it? People would inevitably ask me about my sign and want to chit-chat about it. In which case I would probably need to devise another sign. This would probably cause a repeating pattern that would eventually run the world out of posterboard, sticks and markers.
If at this point you were looking back up at the beginning of this post trying to figure out what the point of this all was, then you have in fact missed the point entirely. I know because I just caught myself doing the same thing.
July 27, 2007 11:22 am 2 Comments
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By christy, July 27, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
I don’t even know where to start; thanks for the good chuckle this morning. I’m not good at chit-chat either, unless I’ve been drinking, and then I say too much, too. Fortunately, my boyfriend has chit-chat NAILED.
Hey, in a roundabout way, I owe you and Muse some thanks — if the Rev hadn’t married you, last year, I wouldn’t have known it was possible for him to marry me this year.
By rev_matt_y, July 27, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
Small talk (not Smalltalk) is the bane of my social existence (or was when I had a social existence). I suck at it. And I definitely need a sign like that as well. Though next up on my list of signs to make is one that says “This is not a sign”.