Errant Penny ([info]errantpenny) wrote,
@ 2005-11-04 21:54:00
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Ugh
I still want to answer some comments to my last post -- apologies to you whose comments have not been answered yet (this was a filtered post, to those of you who chose not to be part of the filter).

Excuse me -- I am tipsy.

My new boss invited me out for drinks with her and a few others.

Alas, I found that these are not my people. It was, however, nice to be out and about in North Beach on a balmy Friday evening in November (gotta love the bizarro SF weather).

This was a bad decision, the going out, given that I am dipping into savings because my job started just before a payroll and the decision was made to fold those few days into my first "real" paycheck, for which I have to wait two more weeks.

So, what with drinks and chipping in on appetizers and taking a goddamn cab home because the bus kept NOT coming and I had to pee -- well, it was really too great an expenditure considering that I had only a so-so time.

Such a relief to be home in my little cocoon.

I have to be up early to help set up the table for WGGAN (my women's green global group) at the SF Green Festival.

To paraphrase a book I love, there was too much shallow small talk tonight.

I want Large Talk.

Good night.


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[info]inishglora
2005-11-05 02:10 pm UTC (link)
LOL! Well, I, for one, go for the jugular. I'll suffer thru small talk with new acquaintances but once someone shows the least sign of interest in something beyond superficialities, out goes the chitchat and in comes the major stuff. I've learned to rein myself in and wait for some sign of receptivity, though. Surely I've ruined a budding relationship more than once because I wasn't willing to be shallow.

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[info]errantpenny
2005-11-13 12:34 am UTC (link)
I don't know. I'm afraid that I might have been painting myself here as something I'm not..sometimes I think that I'm perfectly willing to be shallow...no, what I mean is that i don't always want to talk about "serious" subjects. I can bond with people most quickly over books or films, over travel or concern with problems in society, but I'm also quite capable of holding forth for quite a while on celebrity trivia or decorating!

I only want to talk about things with passion and enthusiasm, and I prefer to be around others who do that as well. I can't understand someone who says, in a flat voice, "I've been to the new DeYoung museum. It was great." Well, what was great?! What paintings or sculptures rocked your world?

I think by "shallow" I don't so much mean lack of profundity as lack of passion and detail.

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