{"id":790,"date":"2005-03-05T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/03\/05\/pinning-the-social-butterfly\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:54:16","slug":"pinning-the-social-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/03\/05\/pinning-the-social-butterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"PINNING THE SOCIAL BUTTERFLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I might have broken my social interaction mechanism. Or else I just overdid it and need to sit with it elevated for awhile. I&#8217;m discovering more and more that I need more downtime in my life than I tend to allow for. Or else I&#8217;m just getting <strike>boring<\/strike> old. I suspect part of it is less tolerance for living outside my comfort zone. After 3 evenings of social events in various settings, the following things were once again reinforced for me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once you stop working with someone, if you have no other common context, the conversation really tends to die after the initial &#8220;What&#8217;s new&#8221; part.<\/li>\n<li>I do better in smaller groups than larger ones.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t respect the fact that you might have a very different opinion of something than I do, and it&#8217;s not that I am not open-minded or willing to learn new things, but if the opinion you&#8217;re spouting is drunken, ignorant and\/or belligerent, I&#8217;m going to tune you out.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m usually much more content to listen than to talk. I don&#8217;t have any particular compulsion to insert my opinions or scoff at others out loud. Does this make me apathetic? Wise? Boring?<\/li>\n<li>Pubs are not my style, although I&#8217;m very grateful for the consideration of certain acquaintances this evening who were kind enough to take their smoke breaks elsewhere than the table.<\/li>\n<li>Part of me is simultaneously glad I&#8217;m not, and envious of, the kind of person who can sauna for half an hour and then do naked snow angels in the backyard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/e11en.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">e11en<\/a>! It was so nice to meet you tonight, although way too short.<\/p>\n<p><b>Really Great Writing Out There Right Now<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/studiozoe.com\/journal\/581\/how-normal-becomes-wonderful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Normal Becomes Wonderful<\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\">(Mom, read this, it sums up perfectly what I think, too)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>This Dog, Right Here, Is The Biggest Reason I&#8217;m Wanting a Dog These Days<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/weeme.diaryland.com\/images\/snowqueen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wee&#8217;s Beautiful Finnegan Jane<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I might have broken my social interaction mechanism. Or else I just overdid it and need to sit with it elevated for awhile. I&#8217;m discovering more and more that I need more downtime in my life than I tend to allow for. Or else I&#8217;m just getting boring old. I suspect part of it is less tolerance for living outside my comfort zone. After 3 evenings of social events in various settings, the following things were once again reinforced for me: Once you stop working with someone, if you have no other common context, the conversation really tends&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5736,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/5736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}