the good, the blah, and the ugly

[seryn]

I had a good time at the block party. I took home an empty tray. Simon didn't go, so I left him with food in the refrigerator. When I got home 3 hours later he was sitting on the sofa being hungry. Seriously. It never occurred to him to even look to see if I'd left him any food. And he knew where I was. I get that he didn't want to go to the party, but there was a fresh loaf of bread and he knows where the oatmeal is.

For those of you who are tired of hearing me natter on about Doctor Who, someone else drew a comic about it.
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/0124f197-12d0-4d99-a96f-6be7a8f18230.jpg

I'm thinking I'm going to stop looking at any of the fora on Ravelry. I'm sick of idiots wittering on in a personal conversation inside topic-specific discussions. Today there was someone whose post consisted solely of an acronym I didn't know. That was it. Someone else had posted how wonderful a vendor (who only has an Etsy storefront) is--- and I've dealt with her. She's a scatterbrained retard. (Which means, obviously, I can't tell you who it is or I'll be accused of slander. But seriously, if you're buying a spinning wheel, would you buy it from someone who requires you to give your information to a third party who then re-sells it? It's a multi-hundred dollar purchase, generally I'd assume that's a product worthy of getting a website for.) I'd rather stop being interested in fiber crafts in public. Like it's a shameful secret hobby....

Tonight at the block party, someone told me I was very annoying. It was the coffee woman's husband. Sadly, I am very annoying so I shouldn't feel hurt by someone saying the truth. But I do get tired of the "Harrison Bergeron" effect where no one wants me because I'm not brainless and moronic like everyone else. If they mean that, they should pith everyone's brains at birth. Then we'd all live and no one would ever think.

I told someone tonight that I was an atheist. I hope that's not true, but I suspect it is. See... atheists believe that there's no afterlife. (There's no divine evaluation or karma. There is no reincarnation. After you die, you're dead. That's it.) Yes? Can you see the problem? I'm not a happy person by nature. I actually believe in the universe having a finite amount of happiness, thus with 7 billion people, we should love those who have died because their ration of happiness will be returned to the pool and everyone will get an infinitesimal amount more. Makes what's "good" and "bad" not mesh well with the standard expectations.

Comments

[corrvin]

Atheists don't have to believe that there's no afterlife. They just have to believe that there's no boss fight in the afterlife.

[pj]

Said much better than I had in my head. ^5

[seryn]

Thanks for making me laugh with that phrasing!

[pj]

Someone actually had the lack of tact to say to you, "You are very annoying?" Wow. People stun me. I have a standard response for those types of declarations, "If there ever comes a time when your opinion matters to me I'll to remember what you said."

Gah! Humans!

[seryn]

It went on for a while explaining too. About how I explain the entire thought process to get somewhere everyone can see and that no one needs to hear it. This is actually true. You don't notice so much when I get to talk without it ever being anyone else's turn in the middle.

I wasn't aware that the coffee woman disliked me enough to tell her husband that I'm "detail oriented" and that I insist everyone else listen to it.

I think she's kind of vapid and useless, which is ironic since she does tons of volunteer work and is very active and I often don't leave my apartment. But I don't mind her being that way because once you sort people based on proximity, you can't sort on all the criteria you would normally use for online friends. She likes going for lunch and takes me to nicer places than I would normally go... so she is a useful person for me to have in my life since it broadens my horizons. But not the kind of person you take to a math lecture, yeah?

I'm sort of surprised and hurt that someone would tell me my good qualities in a way that indicates they think those things are bad. I don't mind that people think I'm annoying, I rather like being detail oriented and organized. But I don't like the idea that people around me feel forced to endure my presence.

[pj]

I think they're are both insufferably rude. BOTH.

Detail oriented being a negative is his perception. It has not more hold on Absolute Truth than any other perceptions. What a doucebag.

No-one is forced to endure anyone's presence. Everyone is free to walk away. One who does not exercise that choice gets what they get. She gets something out of spending time with you or she wouldn't do it. Likely what she gets is "away from her doucebag husband". :P~

[seryn]

Thanks. It's nice to hear that being smarter than someone else (or at least more focused) doesn't make me uppity and deserving of being crushed.

ps. you're missing an 'h'. douche is from the French, not the Italian.

ETA:
pps. I really am detail oriented and it really does sound bitchy.

[pj]

See what happens when you're in a hurry? I saw doucebag underlined by the spellcheck and glanced, thought, "that looks wrong, whatever - spellcheck doesn't like compound words" and moved on. *grin*