Four Quick Takes

2009 October 9
by VA
Jennifer isn’t hosting the Seven Quick Takes carnival this week.

But because my sister made me I had a few lined up… here are Four Quick Takes :)

1.

“I do like it,” my sister said, looking around my room. “I’m just not used to see you having space.“

2.

“So, you can actually stretch out! In all dimensions!” Guy #1 proclaimed from my sofa/bed.
“That is, the three spatial ones…” he added, interrupting my “Not the string ones, that would break the universe…”

There was an embarrassed silence.

(We do talk about normal things. Food. Clothes. Religion. Movies. Relationships. It just always skews back to physics somehow.)

3.

Yeah, I tidied my room. I’m as shocked as anyone. Unfortunately, though I do have the floorspace now, there still won’t be much mad dancing about, since my (v. cool) hanging lamp is a) on nose-level and b) forged. Out of metal and suchlike.

(It has, because of exactly these reasons added to the fact that it is located right between the light switch and my bed, a glow-in-the-dark rosary dangling from it. My religion saves me from physical harm on a nightly basis.)

4.

I still think he was just having a bad day.

In any case, the TA of one of my classes reached such a level of less-than-useful that we were still talking about it a day later. I was defending him (guys can have PMS, I’m sure of it, and if not, they deserve our sympathy for not having such a convenient excuse).

“Yeah, but you like EVERYONE,” said two classmates in unison.

This is not true, because there are, off the top of my head, two people whom I’d really rather not be around. Plus a large bunch that just make me uncomfortable.

But it did get me thinking. Do I like a lot of people? (Yes.) Do I like more people than most people do? (How would I know?) Do I like people most other people do not like? (There are a few cases, but I don’t think it would be more than average.)

Obviously, there is research to be done.

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2 Responses
  1. 2009 October 10
    Zus permalink

    I made you post them? I think not! *giggle* But I didn’t know about Jennifer taking this week off (until I randomly looked at her blog earlier today) – dropping out of the blogosphere does that to you, I guess ;)

    Re: no. 4 – when I first read it I thought, “Hm, I know who one of those two people might be, but the other….” But now I think I have it figured out. Because I know you that well. Are you scared yet?

    I think fsvo “more” I could say that you like more people than I do, at least. You don’t need reminding, I suppose (hope), that you’d be working with percentages and proportions rather than bare data, because I’m not sure that any two adults know the same number of people, let alone the same people. This is before we get into the definition of “like” which ime is notorious for not having a proper translation function.

    Hm, translation functions.

    • 2009 October 10
      VA permalink

      I am scared! Or I would be if I were surprised :) As you are my #1 to-whinge-to-person, I’d say you have an unfair advantage on the remainder of the blogosphere :P

      I’m going to have to chew on the “nice” bit for a while. It’s not very easy to measure, no. But I think I first need to figure out whether any conclusion would mean something :)

      And that last ยง… sometimes L and you seem to be channeling each other, which is hilarious considering your completely disjunct personalities :)

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