There are few phrases that inevitably strike fear in to someone's heart.
"Did you manage to get all that done for the meeting this morning?" (Meeting? What meeting? What was I doing for it?)
"Let's go round the circle and get to know each other. Tell us something interesting about yourself" (I am not interesting and I doubt you are either, let's just keep quiet).
"Come to my interpretive dance show! It's very emotional". (No.)
But the one that is said more often than any other is one that I also fling at other people. "So what have you been up to?"
To be fair it's a fairly reasonable conversation opener. It implies (faked or otherwise) interest in the person's life and it allows them to go in to as much or as little detail as they like. I chuck it around like it's going out of business, but when it's turned on me I have absolutely no idea what to say. I think my reticence comes from giving up a full time job to freelance and write. I feel like I should in some way defend this decision. I also feel that I should some how explain how I spend my days (I sometimes go to work, I sometimes sit in my pyjamas and write, I spend too much time on buzzfeed). Ultimately I feel that I haven't really done anything. Much like everyone else.
So what is up with me?
I have got very in to crumpets.
I keep accidentally going on holiday.
It would seem that I celebrated the arrival of spring by burying all my jumpers somewhere. Winter is coming and I am cold.
I witnessed a car accident which is now going to court. I had to draw an account of what happened. The picture is so bad the crash investigators are going to have their work cut out trying to establish what happened.
I have yet to unpack from holiday.
I have successfully avoided going to any interpretive dance shows.
How about you? What have you been up to?
"Did you manage to get all that done for the meeting this morning?" (Meeting? What meeting? What was I doing for it?)
"Let's go round the circle and get to know each other. Tell us something interesting about yourself" (I am not interesting and I doubt you are either, let's just keep quiet).
"Come to my interpretive dance show! It's very emotional". (No.)
But the one that is said more often than any other is one that I also fling at other people. "So what have you been up to?"
To be fair it's a fairly reasonable conversation opener. It implies (faked or otherwise) interest in the person's life and it allows them to go in to as much or as little detail as they like. I chuck it around like it's going out of business, but when it's turned on me I have absolutely no idea what to say. I think my reticence comes from giving up a full time job to freelance and write. I feel like I should in some way defend this decision. I also feel that I should some how explain how I spend my days (I sometimes go to work, I sometimes sit in my pyjamas and write, I spend too much time on buzzfeed). Ultimately I feel that I haven't really done anything. Much like everyone else.
So what is up with me?
I have got very in to crumpets.
I keep accidentally going on holiday.
It would seem that I celebrated the arrival of spring by burying all my jumpers somewhere. Winter is coming and I am cold.
I witnessed a car accident which is now going to court. I had to draw an account of what happened. The picture is so bad the crash investigators are going to have their work cut out trying to establish what happened.
I have yet to unpack from holiday.
I have successfully avoided going to any interpretive dance shows.
How about you? What have you been up to?
3 comments:
I have mainly been eating Celebrations.
I have been editing Sparkles CV.
I haven't really - I've been eating chewy mints.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - chewy.
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