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January 22, 2006
somethings you do for money others for social norms
In about an hour and a half I will be at it again. Small talk pervades my life.
Blah, blah….laughter…oh, blah. I’ll go to work and bring people pancakes and a bit of my personality in the form of small talk. A few hours ago I was engaged in small talk with all people from Church. We all ask each other the same awful questions and are forced to try and think of cute little jokes while grinning. Is this passing the Peace?
What is most annoying about small talk is that I am good at making people feel comfortable and feel like they know me. People then make the assertion of oh, Hope she is just like…blah. I don’t disappoint. I reflect nicely what people expect and then get annoyed when we never have meaningful conversations.
WHAT I WANT is for someone to say the words the song we just sang were profound because….
Instead I fall victim to small talk and again and say “oh, I am not a student. I am working here in Boston. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah…laughter..
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I feel the same way people will talk to others and generalize about me, even the most personal parts of my life (you know what I mean).
Either that or people think I am in high school.
Posted by: jkrue at January 22, 2006 05:40 PM
I remember talking about this with you when I was in Boston. We do a good job of managing people's perceptions of us, I think. People say I'm myself. What does that mean? Isn't it just a tautology? Anyway, how would they know?
I always hated how we leave church and then we just laugh and talk about trivial things, or maybe criticize the pastor's sermon. Where are we?
Posted by: Evan Donovan at January 24, 2006 06:07 PM