wispfox | Nov. 22nd, 2004

Nov. 22nd, 2004

Oh, right! Forgot about that...

There are instances when I do, in fact, notice and get strongly affected by people's physical beauty.

I have to not know them, though, because people's brains/emotions/etc will catch and keep my attention far more effectively and often. (I suspect that I also tend to parse out most pieces of physical appearance as not important, most of the time - there's too many other things that _are_ important to pay attention to, so I'm fairly (and automatically) ruthless about parsing out what I don't need. This does mean that having some piece of someone's physical appearance pointed out, even when I'm in the middle of interacting with them, can thoroughly startle me)

This post brought to you by a random brief interaction with a very lovely Latina (for those who don't know Spanish, definitely female) on my way to the restroom. I have no idea if this is a co-worker or mine or not. I was too strongly affected by gorgeousness to think to ask.

I also tend to forget how _much_ more likely it is for me to find dark eyes/hair instantly attractive than pretty much anything else, because I usually don't notice these things if I know a person at _all_. (which, yes, does make it interesting trying to describe people. I've tended to make a point of attempting to notice and remember these things for people I'm dating. I don't always succeed, though) And... I _think_ dark hair/eyes is less common where I tend to be interacting with people, as well.

Yep. Yummy woman. Hopefully I wasn't obvious in my appreciation/distraction!

Current Mood: mischievous

Current Mood: mischievous

Hugging people while either coughing or laughing when one has a chest cold (at least if one is me) causes interesting reactions in the person one is hugging. I learned this on Saturday, when I found out that apparently other people can feel the crap in my lungs moving around if I'm coughing or laughing and they are hugging me. (Of course, laughing makes me cough if my lungs are full of crap, so I suppose I can just say coughing)

Amusingly, this proceeded to cause the other two people in the room to want to experience this. *shakes head* I have the weirdest friends. But I knew that. ;)

And sometimes I forget this fact, until someone gets confused. My ability to define things is... somewhat lacking, so anyone who feels like correcting (or shortening!) any of these would be appreciated.

earworm - I think I picked this up from alt.polyamory - a noun used to describe a song that is stuck in one's head. Also used to describe songs which tend to be easy to get stuck in one's head (ie, 'earworm warning'). Can also be verbed 'to earworm'.

frubbly - alt.polyamory again - an alternative word for 'compersion', meaning the happiness you feel because of someone else's happiness. Most often seen (by me, at least) in relation to someone being happy for one's sweetie(s)'s NRE for someone else. I believe 'frubbly' (and variations) came into existance because 'compersion' sounds too clinical and not sufficiently bouncy. I prefer 'frubble' and 'frubbly' for that reason, at least. 'to be frubbly' or 'to frubble' are both valid, from what I can tell.

NRE - ok, I got a lot of things from alt.poly - New Relationship Energy (also known as Disney Chemicals). More or less, the happy, giddy, Oh Em Gee reaction to a new relationship, where lots and lots of one's energy is going toward the new person, possibly to the expense of already existing relationships.

fuzzle - I think this came from somewhere in furry fandom, perhaps Furtoonia or FurryMUCK - I picked it up as a verb meaning using nails/claws in a rapid, back and forth movement, in someone's hair/scalp, but that may not actually be accurate.

scritch - also from furry fandom - a verb similar to fuzzle, but more leisurely and less specific about type of movement (but still involving nails/claws and hair/scalp). Again, I may not be completely accurate in my usage.

Hmm. I feel like I have more words like this. I also feel a bit like I'm posted something like this before. Anyone know of any other words they had to have me explain?

I am intensely impatient for January.

This is more than a little weird in my head because of the fact that January is one of the two least pleasant months for me. (so there's a small amount of nerves there, too, since one of the things relating to January is not being as social)

But there's so much _nift_ in this coming January! APC (and people I want to meet there!)! And LJ friends visiting the area so I get to meet them! And meeep!

*impatient*

(and yes, I'm sure the fact that I should be seeing an

australian_joe by end of January has something to do with this impatience)

So, as previously determined, things I have taken the time to process and sort and stuff are indexed in my head with words. This does include people, even though that's not how I recognize them.

It perioically weirds me out that I can have a word in my head, even use it to find the information I want, but cannot necessarily _communicate_ that word, or even find a similar word (the latter is easier, but sometimes I can get just completely stuck!).

Trying to find a word in writing is easier than when speaking, though.

On the way home, however, I was reminded that while speaking and writing are language specific, they are not the _same_ symbol set. I probably have to translate between them, at some level, at least.

So perhaps it's not quite so strange that I can sometimes find a word easier in writing than in speaking (since speaking takes a _lot_ more processing power for me than writing, similarly to listening vs reading).

And, taking that symbols set stuff further, perhaps the verbal stuff that I have in my head for indexing purposes and for other processed stuff in my head is yet _another_ symbol set. Thereby explaining why I can access things and still not necessarily be able to communicate that word.

No idea if this is even remotely correct, but it makes me less annoyed by my frequent difficulty with finding words.

I blame one of my co-workers (I can't recall which) for this

(I have only seen the first ZIM! Pity me! since at least one of you will be sure to tell me how much I'm missing anyway, I'm sure ;)

Other people have interesting descriptions of me, all of which I will be forced to paraphrase because my ability to remember things word-for-word is nonexistant.

I am a being which causes people near me to be much sillier. The number of times I have been blamed for the silliness of people around me is astounding! "I'm not this silly when _she's_ not around!" (hey, look! A good example of when it _is_ ok to be pointing and laughing at the same time!) Silliness magnification!

I have a 'talk to me about things you don't normally talk to anyone about!' vibe. The most frequent application of this tend to revolve around sex/sexuality and energy work/esp/etc type stuff. I don't mind, certainly, and I suspect the fact that I am _INSANELY CURIOUS_, especially about how people's minds work, magnifies this effect. So, apparently, does the fact that I'm fairly difficult to cause TMI reactions in (squick? Those aren't quite the same... huh! I wonder if squick needs to be on my list of words I use...) or startle (at least about things in other people's lives).

I am calming. Not entirely sure how this and the silliness magnification manage to coexist, but whatever.

I am someone who must be taken entirely on my own merits. This apparently relates to the fact that I don't use myself as a baseline for 'normal' because I tend to expect that other people will _not_ be similar to me in lots of ways.

Mmm... can't think of any more right now. But I am amused.