I have had my learners for four days now, and I've yet to get behind the wheel.
I am afraid that I am getting more and more neurotic the more and more I'm left to my own devices. I still live in my head more than anything. I talk to myself, all the time, and I make up entire alternative, "what if" lives for myself. And, seeing that I can no longer trust my own perceptions of social courteous, is it, or is it not okay to
A) Show up at a friends house unannounced to drop something off, or to say hi because you are in the area, or to pick something up.
B) To leave hand delivered postcards in the mailboxes of 1)People you know and have 1) not talked to in a while. 2) Never really knew that well to being with.
Also, is it weird to e-mail people you never talk to anymore but used to talk to all the time and wish them each individually a good upcoming year, and while you're at it is it okay to vaguely remember someone's e-mail address from when they told it to you over a year ago and send them an e-mail saying, "hey we should talk more often shouldn't we." among other comments referring to ones neurotic behavior at your last meeting, and ones commonly horrific hermit like conduct?
My family left me alone today, while they went off to frolic in streams and catch fish with their bare hands. I have walked around the block 5 times now, and I am trying to make jello, but I don't know how long it takes to be gelled enough to add the fruit, and also, can marshmallows be added too?
I am afraid that I am getting more and more neurotic the more and more I'm left to my own devices. I still live in my head more than anything. I talk to myself, all the time, and I make up entire alternative, "what if" lives for myself. And, seeing that I can no longer trust my own perceptions of social courteous, is it, or is it not okay to
A) Show up at a friends house unannounced to drop something off, or to say hi because you are in the area, or to pick something up.
B) To leave hand delivered postcards in the mailboxes of 1)People you know and have 1) not talked to in a while. 2) Never really knew that well to being with.
Also, is it weird to e-mail people you never talk to anymore but used to talk to all the time and wish them each individually a good upcoming year, and while you're at it is it okay to vaguely remember someone's e-mail address from when they told it to you over a year ago and send them an e-mail saying, "hey we should talk more often shouldn't we." among other comments referring to ones neurotic behavior at your last meeting, and ones commonly horrific hermit like conduct?
My family left me alone today, while they went off to frolic in streams and catch fish with their bare hands. I have walked around the block 5 times now, and I am trying to make jello, but I don't know how long it takes to be gelled enough to add the fruit, and also, can marshmallows be added too?
posted by Kar.
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6:47 p.m. 
1 Comments:
Don't ask *me :-P I'm completely socially inept! Most of those things you call neurotic sound nice to me :) Maybe some of it is going too far... In my opinion, just try to be observant enough to notice if something you do or say bothers someone and then you'll know you broke the rules with that *individual. But I think I know what you mean about not being able to trust your own perceptions. It's like once you realize the insanity that the human mind is capable of, there's a self-suspicion. I worry that I'm tricking myself or blinding myself to something. The important thing is to not worry about it too much. Also, channel your make-believe into fiction!
Good luck driving and have a wonderful new school year!
-Ari
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