Twitter Messages

Tweet of the Moment …

Karen

https://twitter.com/BoingBoing/status/358612527963312129

And that’s true even if the savings account doesn’t have enough money in it to cover a full degree — or even a semester. A study from Washington University in St. Louis has attributed this effect to aspirations. A kid who grows up knowing that their parents and others expect high education — and who grows up thinking about higher ed as an option for them — is more likely to go.

Plinky Prompts

Real-Life Readers are Not Welcome

Karen

Who is the one person you hope isn’t reading your blog? Why?

do-not-read Mine is not so much one person, but a group of people – the people I work with.

I wish my family didn’t read my blog, simply because my “honesty” can be a bit uncomfortable sometimes, but for the most part, I’m okay if they read it.

I would be absolutely horrified if the people I work with found my blog.

And it wouldn’t be because I really say anything bad about them, (though I would be scum on the sole of someone’s shoe if a certain person watched a certain video I posted – and by the way, I wasn’t sure if I should have posted that, I’m still not sure, but I honestly wanted to remember this young lady because her … personality quirks are quite interesting and I will likely base a character on her someday – see? I posted that video for purely selfish reasons – are you really surprised??), but because even though I come across as an “honest” person to the people I work with, I like to keep a lot of my personal life … well, private.

Hence the reason I absolutely will not friend someone I work with on Facebook. I only limit the people I KNOW to friend me on Facebook. And though I have come to KNOW the people I work with, it just becomes …. awkward to work with people who know too much about you. That’s why I hesitate to hang out with people I work with after work. What if we have a disagreement? We can’t get away from each other – I see the people I work with more than my family. And then work relations are tense and it becomes harder to do the job …

No. I prefer to keep my working relationships and my personal relationships completely separate – it’s just easier on everyone that way.

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Can We Talk?

Question …

Karen

Today’s question is …

If you could be a fly on the wall anywhere and at any time in history …

I’d like to see what goes on in the doctors’ lives that I work with.

What are they like when they’re not working? What sort of personalities do they have? How do they interact with their spouses? With their children?

I love to watch people. I love to listen to conversations. I love to try and read between the lines and study body language and listen to what’s NOT being said.

In short, I’m nosy. I’m one of those people who like to sit in the corner at parties and watch what’s going on around me, without actually participating.

I’d like the ability to simply follow someone interesting home – then perch, unseen, and watch them go about their daily lives. What makes them tick? What are they passionate about? What are the people in their lives like?

I don’t really like to interact with people, even though I do it on a daily basis and can trick people into thinking that I LIKE speaking with them, or SEEM like I’m really listening when in fact, I’m counting the minutes until I can gracefully excuse myself from the conversation, but I do enjoy watching people.

I just wish I could do more of it and not appear suspicious.

I swear I’m not as creepy as I sound.