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azurelunatic) wrote2002-08-19 03:40 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-08-19 03:40 pm
Certain Values of Asinine Stupidity
1. When you do something interesting the night before, you are to expect a pointed response come morning.
2. The pointed response you get may tell you everything you need to know, though it may not be what you want to hear.
Darkside made a snide remark about my weight this morning. I held back Dagger until she was calm enough to not strangle him.
Then, when I came out, I verbally chewed him up one side and down the other, pointing out exactly what he'd done, and why I was angry with him. Encouragement towards improvement, not poking fun at the non-improvement.
That was the first case of nonconstructive criticism. But it did tell us something we needed to know, which was that a certain something had indeed something-somethinged. (Yes, Essy, there is a private post on this issue. No, it's not much less vague than that.)
Later, I showed him my research topic proposal, which he read, and then shredded my mention of the Sith Academy in there, saying that if the teacher looked there, I could be gotten in Big Trouble. I was not pleased, given that quite a bit of the Sith Academy is clean.
Later, I pushed too hard about attempting to make movie dates for the 13th and 19th of December. My bad. He refused to commit to something he didn't know if he would be able to make. Honorable, but I really would have liked a promise to try to make it fit.
After we step on each other's toes, though, we bonk each other over the head, hug (well, I hug him, he clasps my shoulder), and make things all better.
When we grow, occasionally we pull muscles. Sometimes each other's.
2. The pointed response you get may tell you everything you need to know, though it may not be what you want to hear.
Darkside made a snide remark about my weight this morning. I held back Dagger until she was calm enough to not strangle him.
Then, when I came out, I verbally chewed him up one side and down the other, pointing out exactly what he'd done, and why I was angry with him. Encouragement towards improvement, not poking fun at the non-improvement.
That was the first case of nonconstructive criticism. But it did tell us something we needed to know, which was that a certain something had indeed something-somethinged. (Yes, Essy, there is a private post on this issue. No, it's not much less vague than that.)
Later, I showed him my research topic proposal, which he read, and then shredded my mention of the Sith Academy in there, saying that if the teacher looked there, I could be gotten in Big Trouble. I was not pleased, given that quite a bit of the Sith Academy is clean.
Later, I pushed too hard about attempting to make movie dates for the 13th and 19th of December. My bad. He refused to commit to something he didn't know if he would be able to make. Honorable, but I really would have liked a promise to try to make it fit.
After we step on each other's toes, though, we bonk each other over the head, hug (well, I hug him, he clasps my shoulder), and make things all better.
When we grow, occasionally we pull muscles. Sometimes each other's.
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And I guess I'll have to resign myself to not having access to the private entries. ;)
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