Just For The Social Record

[pantryslut]

For the record, I am a good listener and super curious about everything and always want to hear all about it. This is why LJ has been so very good to me.

However, I am also shy, so how/when to ask the questions to start these convos often escapes me.

Sorry.

To top off this little social sundae, I was raised by wolves...er, by graduate students who were too busy raising four kids plus pursuing their theses to actually, you know, have any friends. (At least once they stopped smoking pot.)* So I really have no idea how to make polite conversation. Even sincere polite conversation, much less small talk. I wasn't acculturated into any form or style of interaction. I wasn't acculturated at all...

I'm really good at answering questions, though, if that helps. And no subject of conversation is ever inappropriate around me :)



* Which happened, at my best estimates, around when my brother was born, so I was six. I was young enough and they were circumspect enough that I don't actually have any memories of them indulging, only circumstantial evidence. And a cute anecdote about my dad's hospital intake and my mom's shame, but even that's second-hand.

Comments

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Nah. If I really disliked you, I wouldn't bother reading your journal -- honestly, I have better things to do with my time, like raise twins :) But that also cuts the other way, if you see what I mean.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yeah. In my misspent yute, I couldn't imagine liking someone who I perceived as not liking me much, but I got over it. And I like you for reasons entirely having nothing to do with our interactions, which have been minimal over the years. (Things like your politics, your parenting, your writing...)