Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What is one task everybody else seems to get right, but you struggle with?

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Writing long documents...

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[alainn-mactire.livejournal.com]

Phone calls to anyone but Dave, social occasions, social interaction face to face...

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Maintaining a "career". For a long time I thought careers were a kind of bird. Then I started wondering if they were mythical birds, like the phoenix or the cockatrice.
Now I realize that they are out there, and so many people have them that they have become an endangered species of bird. I know they are birds because everyone who has one always complains to me about how it shits all over their lives.

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

getting a job with a steady paycheck.

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Making a phone call...I have a fear of the phone.

[billzy.livejournal.com]

not making life complicated ;)

[smwright.livejournal.com]

Making ends meet. :(

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Eloquence

[pyxiwulf.livejournal.com]

housekeeping

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

You mean besides Spanish?

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

Driving in reverse.
Somehow the necessary connection does not seem to happen in my brain...

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Living

[kathyrene.livejournal.com]

The fine art of small talk.

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

Money. Plain and simple. I have a huge problem with money.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Being normal.

[innerly.livejournal.com]

why would you want to be "normal"? you are extraordinary!
so please, don't struggle, let your uniqueness be

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I don't really want to be normal, in the mundane sense. I would like the ability to pretend to be normal and have others buy into it for a limited time so that I can observe and participate in social interaction without stress.

As a social chameleon, I would like more control over what shade I turn and how long I get to wear it.

[innerly.livejournal.com]

ah, ok..that makes sense

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

It's fun to act normal, every now and then...

It's easy enough for me to do :D

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

The best way to act normal, or so I've found, is to let other people dominate the conversation. They are usually so busy applauding themselves for being important/smart/cool that they fail to notice their audience. (And the audience is usually thinking: "What do I want to eat next?" "Does my ass look fat in these pants?" "How long is this guy going to drone on?" "When I get home, I need to do all these things..." "Whoa! Hot chick... I wanna get laid!")

There is something to be said for a well-timed statement that suddenly blows the main speaker out of the water and shifts the attention for a minute. Pulls people out of their personal gravity in order to make them think and re-evaluate.

Which is your preferred modus operandi, is it not? ^___^

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

It is indeed... And it works well! :D

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Normal is so damned overrated, though. ;)

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I don't really want to be normal, I just want to be able to blend in from time to time whenever I want to. It's a handy trick! ^__~

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

That's what all we tricksters strive for, no?  On a serious note, though, I know where you're coming from.  I feel the same way sometimes, believe it or not.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I totally believe it. ^__^

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

I always figured it would be more fitting to wish other people had more abnormalities.

Of course, that just leads us to the tedious debate of the definition of "normal", but you get what I am driving at.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Lots of normal people wish they were special, and lots of abnormal people just want to exist without discrimination. The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

Well said.
I've long been someone who is a walking ball of intimidation. Some of this has to do with my size and my appearance, but most of it comes from my history, and the attitude I developed. I was a bouncer, for a time, but even before that I had somehow developed the walk and mannerisms not of one who walks into a place like they own it, but like someone who walks into the place not giving a shit who owns it. If that makes sense.
So much of it is just that I have a lot of presence. There is more Tucker than Tucker is able to contain, kind of thing. Even if I am not the biggest person in the group, I still give the impression that I am.
This is something I am happy with, as it has kept myself and my friends out of many a fight. I don't like fighting, because I don't like getting hit.

However, if there was one thing that I could wish for as far as "normalcy", it would be that I wouldn't strike fear into women the way I do with men.

[innerly.livejournal.com]

parallel parking... i just rather walk one more block if needed

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

The ability to jump out of bed in the morning...my poor snooze is so abused...

[pi-girl.livejournal.com]

Figuring out my work projects lately....**sigh**

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

Figuring out my path, finding a career, and approaching people without being shy.

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

Money. Making ends meet is a real struggle.

[photodiva02.livejournal.com]

Some days it seems like everything.

[4kudzu.livejournal.com]

Depends on what...

[tsankich.livejournal.com]

Understanding the need for attention.