Posted by Jost on August 22, 2006, at 23:11:10
In reply to Re: An odd pattern of behavior » curtm, posted by llrrrpp on August 22, 2006, at 17:50:08
A mooncrater? That's something to contemplate.
There's a psychological desideratum named after me. I didn't know it until I came here though. Guess it doesn't have wide dissemination. Nevermind which. At least until I change my name, which I guess I could do. The only hangup would be ordering new checks.
Did you know that they're about to make Pluto not a planet? Astronomers must be an odd group. Seems they want the definition to be definite. Ahistorical bunch also. Don't seem to understand the concept of grandfathering. Not that it makes my life different, but why not say that any planets discovered henceforth shall have such/such characteristics, but we'll keep the ones we've got? Just cause if civilization keeps on going, someday the first 2000 years of books are gonna be real confusing.
My Sig O, by the way, has been the victim of my terrible cantankerousness. Until I almost passed out from dehydration (or as yet undiagnosed pneumonia or pleurisy), I was at a fever pitch of utter misanthropy. While we were in this absurd hot water thing, with the loudest, most roaring "waterfall" in the universe, blaring in the background, Sig told me this story, the happy punchline of which was that now there was an excuse to argue for hiring this couple (B and K) who Sig knows I am utterly opposed to hiring, as a couple-- meanwhile sort of rattling my cage about other faculty people, one of whom mistakenly emailed Sig about Sig, instead of emailing someone else about Sig. Not to say how great Sig is, either-=which apparently gave Sig quite a pleasant tweak. This apparently was imagined to be a story I would love. Sigs are very weird.
Having consumed a half a small shakerful of salt, several mini-bottles of ketchup (ketchup being a vegetable, of course) and some hamburger (not over-cooked enough, and possibly harboring mad cow disease), I feel sort of not so great, but less likely to come down with the pox, or whatever.
Llrrrpp, you seem to have the most delightful temperament, which is a great blessing. Tomorrow, I'll have to practice having a better one than usual, to compensate for today.
PS. Stop!
In the words of the great Geraldo Rivera, as for the following:
I am begging you-- if you are a parent and you've got kids there--that this subject is just too upsetting for your young children--Please get them out of the room or change the station. --- We urge you, to use parental discretion!
~~~Note: you are best advised to skip the following rant, which I apologize in advance for appending.~~~
I decided that co-worker A had actually not become entirely unexpendable, so I've got to tell her that it isn't going to work. I hate doing that, and it's psychologically jarring to replace people, once I've made an investment, but I guess there is a limit.
Coworkers B and C are more problematic. (I hadn't mentioned C, who is a little more reliable, but who also has me as a low priority, or D, who is barely visible at the outer edge of the solar system, but who does revolve around this way every once in a while, non-periodically). It's partly because I'm not that excited about A, B, C, or D-- and when I'm iffy, then I hesitate, inwardly, myself. Although everyone can always tell that I'm sort of pliable and not strong. But at least when I'm excited about someone, I probably have put some kind of unconscious emotional pressure on them-- about disappointing me, or not fulfilling some crazed aspiration I have about them. Or maybe I've gotten somehow too deeply into my work to be that in love (intellectually or emotionally) with or about (a strange locution, but probably accurate) anyone. I don't know. Probably not. Probably no one has come around.
Maybe I need a few more glasses of water to complement the salt and my blood pressure will be higher (which is good) and I won't be so much like the Dead Sea.
Jost
PPS I shure hope no one read this.
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