Random Thoughts

I know, I know, will wonders never cease? I was just sitting here thinking about "people smart" people and "book smart" people. My ideal office? A bunch of "people persons" in the front, a lot of book smarts in the back. LOL. That's not to say it's mutually exclusive, you can be both, I like to think I'm both. I have just enough knowledge to make me dangerous *evil laugh*, but I KNOW I have people smarts. I know that each year I get better with people. I may dislike most people, but I manage to be nice to people, I manage to bite my tongue when I want to say..you're wrong, na na na. It's just not worth it in the long run to be "right" all the time. =) It just seems like in my little accounting world, we have people who are one but not the other. And we love our book smart people, they really make the wheels turn, but sometimes they have no clue how to deal with the others. Makes it hard from day to day. We actually had a scre...

I've become VERY pre-occupied with wondering what people think of me. I know, this is not something new. I've always been worried what people think of me. But it's a different kind of worry all of the sudden. I've become intensely aware of the way I sound, the way I act when I'm having a bad day. Now I wonder if people think I'm mean or stuck up? I know for a fact that Jesse thought I was stuck up in high school. I was just terrified, but even then I knew that you just pretended like you knew what you were doing, and made friends with as many people as possible. Apparently, Jesse never crossed my radar as someone to be friends with for at least a couple of years. I think we even went to the same middle school and I have no memory of him. Instead of recognizing a fellow dork, geek, nerd, any other number of names people could have called me, he thought I was too stuck up. When he told me that, I was flabbergasted. I didn't MEAN to come across that way. Now w...