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cblj_backupI came to the realisation this morning that I am fundamentally, possibly neurologically, unsuited for social interaction. I'm not necessarily saying this is a bad thing, I'm not upset about it or anything, but I did find it kind of amusing.
About two minutes before breakfast started today, I got a story idea. And I was turning it over and around in my head, trying to get the angles right and commit the opening paragraph to memory and make mental notes on the situation, and I had to keep snapping back to the present and reminding myself to socialise over the morning meal. Apparently I did a decent job of this, but it was blindingly obvious to me that I need to remember how to think less and socialise more at times.
Then I distracted the entire table with my discovery that the handles of our eating utensils were slightly magnetic. I just picked up my knife and fork and started waving them around at each other, and probably looked like a crazy person until I said "My silverware is magnetic!" and it turned out everyone's was, like they store them in a magnetized rack or something.
So that was breakfast: the absentminded professor discovers magnetic flatware. You're welcome, coworkers.
I'm having a better time than previous years -- certainly better than my first year, but improving over last year as well, which was fine to start with.
And frankly, if nothing else, noticing we were eating with magnets made me memorable.
About two minutes before breakfast started today, I got a story idea. And I was turning it over and around in my head, trying to get the angles right and commit the opening paragraph to memory and make mental notes on the situation, and I had to keep snapping back to the present and reminding myself to socialise over the morning meal. Apparently I did a decent job of this, but it was blindingly obvious to me that I need to remember how to think less and socialise more at times.
Then I distracted the entire table with my discovery that the handles of our eating utensils were slightly magnetic. I just picked up my knife and fork and started waving them around at each other, and probably looked like a crazy person until I said "My silverware is magnetic!" and it turned out everyone's was, like they store them in a magnetized rack or something.
So that was breakfast: the absentminded professor discovers magnetic flatware. You're welcome, coworkers.
I'm having a better time than previous years -- certainly better than my first year, but improving over last year as well, which was fine to start with.
And frankly, if nothing else, noticing we were eating with magnets made me memorable.
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Date: 2012-02-20 01:51 am (UTC)And no, I don't have a... history of such behaviour. Who told you that? Lies! All lies! *shifty eyes*
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Date: 2012-02-20 02:16 am (UTC)(Keith had a C.I. which was held on by a magnet implanted between his skin and his skull. He hated the damn thing and almost never wore it, so he let the kids do Stupid Human Tricks with his head.)
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Date: 2012-02-20 04:57 am (UTC)I'm guessing Cranial Something, but I doubt that the Something is Implant if it's on the outside...
Thanks!
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Date: 2012-02-20 02:20 am (UTC)The particular scene in question is when Sherlock's brother, Mycroft, is trying to get them to take a case at Buckingham Palace, but pretty much all Watson can focus on is that Sherlock showed up in his top sheet and no pants. And that he [Sherlock] is refusing to put on the clothes they brought for him.
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Date: 2012-02-20 02:57 am (UTC)You?
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Date: 2012-02-20 03:17 am (UTC)Do you like working with special ed?
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Date: 2012-02-20 03:30 am (UTC)I just got moved at work from where I was a one-on-one for a kid with severe ODD and ADHD to a room full of really, really screwed up 1st graders. I mean, I'm sure you could have a field day diagnosing the things we have going on in this class. ODD, persecution complex, attention seeking LEIK WHOA, kleptomania... and this is a REGULAR ed class!
I was put in there to boot camp the lot of them (they've run out two teachers already this year) and I can see that it's going to take us a few more weeks just to get up to a 'bad class'. On the flip side, I've been told that after a week of me, they're already 'significantly better' than they were last week. Which scares me, really, because they're a HOT MESS right now. I can only imagine what last week was like!
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Date: 2012-02-20 03:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-20 03:52 am (UTC)I'd love to hear about their worldviews. I mean, I'm a White suburban-bred child of the 70s and 80s, teaching Black inner city Chicago kids who were born in 2006 (for the most part)... I think we probably see things pretty damn differently. :)
But thank you... It has it's rough days, but then there are the times where you look at a kid and go, "You didn't know that yesterday... and now you do." Those make it all worth it. :)
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Date: 2012-02-20 06:48 am (UTC)Obviously I don't know your acquaintances, but am taking the liberty of extrapolating to mine. All the interesting conversationalists either left the company or don't eat lunch with me ...
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Date: 2012-02-20 03:58 am (UTC)We like you as you are!
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Date: 2012-02-20 05:19 am (UTC)Magnets are COOL!
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Date: 2012-02-20 06:25 am (UTC)http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2105432,00.html
I found several other mentions of this same article on google, and the book which prompted the article is Susan Cain's "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking."
~mad en
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Date: 2012-02-21 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-22 02:46 am (UTC)*attempts to post comment*
OMG, LJ, seriously? I have to allow scripts from Facebook, etc, to comment? Seriously?
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Date: 2012-02-20 03:52 pm (UTC)I do wish you worked with me. You would not stand out as any odder among my chosen subset of coworkers!
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Date: 2012-02-20 06:33 pm (UTC)BUT YOU ARE ON NOTICE, SIR.