I've always found monotasking to be much more useful than multitasking.

[mmmrorschach]

In the past month, two different retail salespersons have told me that my 'thank yous' sound very sincere. Well, they are, but hearing them say that made me think that maybe they sound more sincere than they need to be, which of course means they actually sound insincere. It's like on the internet, where once someone is convinced you're being

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[aperfectsong]

The book really made me miss the wild and woolly, half-magical America of two hundred and fifty years ago, but there was only so much frontier to explore before it was gone.

This is exactly the reason I love literature from the times of westward expansion. And lately, I've been reading (well, listening to) Sherlock Holmes and America is mentioned dozens of times as this big, new world with undiscovered plants and animals and people, with gold mines and so much space. And the way they talk about the East is like that too. It's kind of sad that those sorts of things aren't mysteries anymore. I can just look up India or Indonesia online or watch a movie.

And

The big about the blinky "thinking" lights made me laugh out loud, literally.

[mmmrorschach]

Yeah, as small as the planet is, only a few hundred years ago there was still so much open, unexplored territory, but then the whole word got sewn shut in criss-crossing satellite orbits and airplane routes and highways. Nowadays, if you hated someone and ran away as far as you could, even if you traveled to the opposite end of the Earth, they could still text you.

[mmmrorschach]

Yeah, that always bothered me a little when people didn't even look at you when they thanked you. Just your standard spontaneous politeness, but they did say it, so I never held anything against them.

I always characterized it as more of a clicking noise, but any noise is better than it just sitting there quietly like it's depressed or has given up talking.

[mmmrorschach]

Depending on what you were doing, McDonald's shifts could be interminable. At the concession stand I got to do everything myself and talked a lot with the customers, so that was almost fun. At the QuikTrip gas station there was so much stuff to do that shifts flew by and everyone there had agreeable personalities. Working retail was less than ideal but I never hated going to work or anything. It was alright. Where did you work? How was it?

But at the same time you don't want them too chatty. If you ever feel like you have to soothe it, than your computer has taken its personality TOO FAR.

[thedizzyvixen]

People tell me I'm just paranoid, or perhaps that I overthink everything...but I knew I couldn't have been the only person who thinks this way. I tend to be the person that everyone assumes is being sarcastic when I'm not trying to be, I'm not sure why, but I've given up on fighting it.

[mmmrorschach]

One of my very favorite Simpsons quote goes:
"Oh, here comes that cannonball guy. He's cool."
"Dude, are you being sarcastic?"
"I don't even know anymore."

[thedizzyvixen]

How funny, I had someone else quote me that recently.