Birthday cakes, phones

I associate Carvel ice cream cakes with birthdays, because those were the birthday cakes we had growing up. For a number of years, those have not happened, and I never remembered to ask why that was. I finally remembered on Sunday, and found out that someone had apparently indicated that people were tired of them. My reaction was one of complete shock and disbelief - it certainly wasn't me!

I decided today at work that I need to go find myself a really tiny carvel ice cream cake for myself, for a slightly late birthday cake. I wonder if I can get them to give me extra crunchies? (Probably not - I don't know of a Carvel ice cream store near me - I only know of stores that happen to have them, as well as lots of other stuff).

Mmm. Crunchies. :)


In completely other news, I seem to be narrowing down my phone weirdness to be related to the silence that frequently occurs in conversations. Over the phone, I have no way to verify that whomever I'm talking to *cares* about what I might be babbling about duing such silences (well, I can ask, but asking all the time would rather kill the flow of conversations). So, I tend to have fairly short things to say over the phone, to avoid the silence in the middle of my talking. (silence *not* while I'm in the middle of talking bothers me *much* less - and not at all, in person. Over the phone, since it is entirely an audio medium, it does feel a bit weird to spend lots of time in silence)

I still talk, but fairly briefly. Which can make it difficult to have conversations, because they end up being fairly imbalanced in terms of how much talking is going on. However, if whomever I'm talking to is willing to talk enough to carry the conversation even though I'm not talking much, phone conversations don't *have* to be seriously uncomfortable for me. Which is not something I ever knew before. And which really fascinates me, because I did not realize that it was something I could investigate about myself. Such a revelation, the idea of phones as *not* being completely evil. Still don't think I'd like them for difficult conversations, though, because body language is a lot more important, then. I want video-phones to replace audio-phones, already!


Weeee! Off to my volunteer job, now!

Birthday cakes, phones

I associate Carvel ice cream cakes with birthdays, because those were the birthday cakes we had growing up. For a number of years, those have not happened, and I never remembered to ask why that was. I finally remembered on Sunday, and found out that someone had apparently indicated that people were tired of them. My reaction was one of complete shock and disbelief - it certainly wasn't me!

I decided today at work that I need to go find myself a really tiny carvel ice cream cake for myself, for a slightly late birthday cake. I wonder if I can get them to give me extra crunchies? (Probably not - I don't know of a Carvel ice cream store near me - I only know of stores that happen to have them, as well as lots of other stuff).

Mmm. Crunchies. :)


In completely other news, I seem to be narrowing down my phone weirdness to be related to the silence that frequently occurs in conversations. Over the phone, I have no way to verify that whomever I'm talking to *cares* about what I might be babbling about duing such silences (well, I can ask, but asking all the time would rather kill the flow of conversations). So, I tend to have fairly short things to say over the phone, to avoid the silence in the middle of my talking. (silence *not* while I'm in the middle of talking bothers me *much* less - and not at all, in person. Over the phone, since it is entirely an audio medium, it does feel a bit weird to spend lots of time in silence)

I still talk, but fairly briefly. Which can make it difficult to have conversations, because they end up being fairly imbalanced in terms of how much talking is going on. However, if whomever I'm talking to is willing to talk enough to carry the conversation even though I'm not talking much, phone conversations don't *have* to be seriously uncomfortable for me. Which is not something I ever knew before. And which really fascinates me, because I did not realize that it was something I could investigate about myself. Such a revelation, the idea of phones as *not* being completely evil. Still don't think I'd like them for difficult conversations, though, because body language is a lot more important, then. I want video-phones to replace audio-phones, already!


Weeee! Off to my volunteer job, now!