http://www.shanwu.com/214/one-of-those-days/ by: shan wu Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:26:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.shanwu.com/214/one-of-those-days/comment-page-1/#comment-3937 Conjured Activism » Blog Archive » awkward moments? Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:06:24 +0000 http://www.shanwu.com/blog/214/one-of-those-days/#comment-3937 [...] I am not a fan of small talk (is anyone?), but recently I thought that I was perhaps getting better at it.  Really though, I now realize, I can only do small talk with someone somewhat around my age who is a student.  Put me in a room with older folks, and I don’t even know what questions to ask.  I hate the “so what do you do” question, so I avoid asking it, but there is no other way to find out what someone does for a living.  And honestly, that is not even small talk for me … I am actually honestly curious what people do for a living.  I don’t ask just to make conversation. [...] [...] I am not a fan of small talk (is anyone?), but recently I thought that I was perhaps getting better at it.  Really though, I now realize, I can only do small talk with someone somewhat around my age who is a student.  Put me in a room with older folks, and I don’t even know what questions to ask.  I hate the “so what do you do” question, so I avoid asking it, but there is no other way to find out what someone does for a living.  And honestly, that is not even small talk for me … I am actually honestly curious what people do for a living.  I don’t ask just to make conversation. [...]

]]> http://www.shanwu.com/214/one-of-those-days/comment-page-1/#comment-104 for_eva_dreaming Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:55:00 +0000 http://www.shanwu.com/blog/214/one-of-those-days/#comment-104 glad you are getting over your angry phase :)...i think i went through one around this time last year...man, everything and everybody just sucked! but it all passes and the sky is blue and the grass is green again :). You'll pull through! i'm sure! glad you are getting over your angry phase :)…i think i went through one around this time last year…man, everything and everybody just sucked! but it all passes and the sky is blue and the grass is green again :). You’ll pull through! i’m sure!

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