I am a people watcher. This becomes an obstacle in my profession when I find myself deeply observing a group of students who turn at once towards me wondering what I could possibly be looking at. That is when all of us realize we are still in class and things just got weird. No, it isn’t as bad as that, though I have been wrapped up in a student presentation so utterly that I was still observing student behavior from the audience while the presenters are staring at me uncertainly, having completed their talk.
Occasionally I make it weird like that. These observations fill my creativity tank, pumping in dozens of personality types an relationships.
Some Thoughts:
- I have declared war on indirect language. That is not to say there is no room for the word ‘some’. In fact there are specific uses for the pronoun–for pronouns in general. Here, for example, is a fine use of some. ‘Some Thoughts’ indicates an unspecified number of thoughts that is largely based on how close I am to 10 minutes into the writing.
- I recognize that I observe females more than males, largely because I am drawn to the idiosyncrasies of female behavior. Less largely because it is easier to observe more attractive people. This alone does not make me a perv. In truth the observation is more about interactions than anything else.