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cblj_backupSeriously, when Awkward Coworker and I talk, we should sell tickets.
The thing is, I genuinely like him as a person -- I was inclined to like him before we knew each other well because of our mutual awkwardness -- and we have a lot in common in terms of geekery. And I think we are trying, in our own desperately incompetent way, to form a friendship. I mean, I'd like to be friends with my coworkers, but I have no real idea how, and the one friendship I formed (with Other Sam) died untimely when she was let go.
Anyway, I mentioned I was going out to lunch today as the groundwork for asking if he wanted to go, and he was all "Uh, if you're going to, uh, I'd like to -- " and I was all "Okay then, I was going to ask if you -- !" and we managed to go outside where other people are and eat a lunch.
Where we both confused the shit out of our cashier, and then talked about My Little Pony, but only as an entre to talking about 4Chan (which is apparently the origin of this whole brony thing, so the internet tells me). And also about theatre, because my arrival on the floor formed some kind of nexus of theatre professionals and now like eight of us, all of whom do theatre on the side and most of whom don't know each other except through me, are going out for drinks next week to talk about this.
I wouldn't begin to know how to make odds on this drinking trip next week ending up with us forming some kind of demented independent theatre company.
BEING A GROWNUP IS A LITTLE WEIRD, GUYS.
The thing is, I genuinely like him as a person -- I was inclined to like him before we knew each other well because of our mutual awkwardness -- and we have a lot in common in terms of geekery. And I think we are trying, in our own desperately incompetent way, to form a friendship. I mean, I'd like to be friends with my coworkers, but I have no real idea how, and the one friendship I formed (with Other Sam) died untimely when she was let go.
Anyway, I mentioned I was going out to lunch today as the groundwork for asking if he wanted to go, and he was all "Uh, if you're going to, uh, I'd like to -- " and I was all "Okay then, I was going to ask if you -- !" and we managed to go outside where other people are and eat a lunch.
Where we both confused the shit out of our cashier, and then talked about My Little Pony, but only as an entre to talking about 4Chan (which is apparently the origin of this whole brony thing, so the internet tells me). And also about theatre, because my arrival on the floor formed some kind of nexus of theatre professionals and now like eight of us, all of whom do theatre on the side and most of whom don't know each other except through me, are going out for drinks next week to talk about this.
I wouldn't begin to know how to make odds on this drinking trip next week ending up with us forming some kind of demented independent theatre company.
BEING A GROWNUP IS A LITTLE WEIRD, GUYS.
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Date: 2012-03-16 01:34 am (UTC)Admit it now, you've already started toying with name ideas for this new independent theatre group ...
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Date: 2012-03-16 02:19 am (UTC)Really? Maybe we should try it some time.
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Date: 2012-03-16 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 03:21 am (UTC)(Weeelllll, 'demented' might be unfair, but I'm sure you guys wouldn't actually be demented either.)
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Date: 2012-03-16 03:33 am (UTC)...please?
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Date: 2012-03-16 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 11:08 am (UTC)http://extribulum.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/cover-me-im-going-in/
Good luck! It's exciting, isn't it?
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Date: 2012-03-16 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 07:18 am (UTC)The Awkward Coworkers.
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Date: 2012-03-16 07:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 08:12 am (UTC)Except the cafe will always know the truth.
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Date: 2012-03-16 11:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 08:40 am (UTC)just saying
When you say "sell tickets"... have you ever considered making your life into a very, very covert reality show?
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Date: 2012-03-16 11:07 am (UTC)I think I pretty much already have...
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Date: 2012-03-16 10:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 11:03 am (UTC)You might not know how to build a friendship with your coworkers, but it kinda seems like you're already doing it :) Also, the theatre company sounds like it could be all kinds of awesome.
Nate
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Date: 2012-03-16 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-16 12:35 pm (UTC)My boss minored in theatre (majored in mass comm, which isn't much better), one of my coworkers is an actor on the side, and I am VP of a local community theatre. OH TEH DRAMAZ HOW WE LOVE YOUUUUU.
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Date: 2012-03-16 02:11 pm (UTC)"The Waffle Shop is a neighborhood restaurant that produces and broadcasts a live-streaming talk show with its customers and operates a changeable storytelling billboard on its roof."
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