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discountsatori, did you know that if you type "j. alfred prufrock" laurie into google, this is the 15th hit that comes up? Amazing the things you can discover while bored at work.
I discovered something interesting about myself last night. B. and I were sitting on my bed talking about something or other (the theory was that he'd come over and keep me company while I was cleaning and throwing things away and whatnot, but that didn't so much happen, for obvious reasons) when I heard Aubrey's phone ring in the other room--and within maybe ten seconds of conversation, I could tell she was talking to Sam the Music Snob completely based on her tone of voice. I've always found it fascinating how people change depending on who they're addressing, the way that tone of voice and vocabulary and even pretty basic personality traits are mutable based on audience. It's particularly interesting to me because, to the best of my knowledge, it's not true of me at all. My personality stays the same whether I'm with B. or my mom, BossPaul or Haley. Now obviously, there are things that I could say to, say, Haley that I'd never say to my boss ("Bitch, please!" comes immediately to mind...), but I really don't think there are different Melanies that change according to situation/context/audience/etc. I wish I could explain this better--it really did make a lot more sense to me at like 2AM--but I suspect that this is a pretty unusual character trait. What do you guys think?
discountsatori, did you know that if you type "j. alfred prufrock" laurie into google, this is the 15th hit that comes up? Amazing the things you can discover while bored at work.I discovered something interesting about myself last night. B. and I were sitting on my bed talking about something or other (the theory was that he'd come over and keep me company while I was cleaning and throwing things away and whatnot, but that didn't so much happen, for obvious reasons) when I heard Aubrey's phone ring in the other room--and within maybe ten seconds of conversation, I could tell she was talking to Sam the Music Snob completely based on her tone of voice. I've always found it fascinating how people change depending on who they're addressing, the way that tone of voice and vocabulary and even pretty basic personality traits are mutable based on audience. It's particularly interesting to me because, to the best of my knowledge, it's not true of me at all. My personality stays the same whether I'm with B. or my mom, BossPaul or Haley. Now obviously, there are things that I could say to, say, Haley that I'd never say to my boss ("Bitch, please!" comes immediately to mind...), but I really don't think there are different Melanies that change according to situation/context/audience/etc. I wish I could explain this better--it really did make a lot more sense to me at like 2AM--but I suspect that this is a pretty unusual character trait. What do you guys think?
