Shut up - but I mean that in a nice way
I talk too much. It's a trait my daughter seems to have picked up from me, too. The joke in our family is that she has a speech impediment: she has to stop to breathe now and then. I tend to just ramble verbally when I get started and have to sometimes be told (in a nice way, of course) to just shut it when folks have reached saturation. Of course, not a lot of folks know me well enough to be impolite enough to stop the rambling. It's a shortcoming that I try to be aware of, though, and thus cut myself off when I see my conversational target partner start to glaze over. I'm not always successful in this self-policing, though.
This same communications diarrhea of mine seems to carry over into the online world, too. I tend to think of comments about a lot of things I read and because blogs allow instant feedback, my self-censor doesn't kick in fast enough to keep me from throwing my couple of pennies worth in whenever I feel the urge to do so. In hindsight, I realize that I sometimes come across as a know-it-all or even egocentric when I put up a bunch of comments in a bunch of places. But the reality is that I just have a hard time shutting up.
(OK, maybe I AM a little bit egocentric as evidenced by the fact that I actually enjoy standing in front of a group of people and being the center of attention while trying to make them laugh ... but I'm not THAT egocentric.)
This same communications diarrhea of mine seems to carry over into the online world, too. I tend to think of comments about a lot of things I read and because blogs allow instant feedback, my self-censor doesn't kick in fast enough to keep me from throwing my couple of pennies worth in whenever I feel the urge to do so. In hindsight, I realize that I sometimes come across as a know-it-all or even egocentric when I put up a bunch of comments in a bunch of places. But the reality is that I just have a hard time shutting up.
(OK, maybe I AM a little bit egocentric as evidenced by the fact that I actually enjoy standing in front of a group of people and being the center of attention while trying to make them laugh ... but I'm not THAT egocentric.)
On 1/20/2006 1:05 PM,
DeniseUMLaw said…
A) Of course you're a bit egocentric. Thank goodness for that!
B) I know you well enough to tell you when to shut up, but I enjoy listening to you.
C) Bloggers generally heart comments, so commenting all over is not a bad thing -- also, it's often a way to get readership on your own blog.
D) love, Love, LOVE! the new picture.
On 1/20/2006 2:07 PM,
Jami said…
A) Of course!
B) And I seem to recall you telling me (in a nice way, of course) that it was time to quiet down.
C) I like your reasoning! OK, I'm not going to stop commenting.
D) It's a lot more recent than the previous one, which just happened to be the first head shot I came across when putting this place together. This one is about 6 months old and as you can see, was taken after I got my hair cut. My hair is still about that length, BTW.
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