2. To me the lake story would be really endearing, because I know someone else who had also taught in rural Japan for a while and it would remind me of him, and I would even be curious as to whether you'd both visited the same lake since it sounded so similar to what he'd said, and even non-hypothetically, reading it here, I feel kind of happy to think that disparate friends of mine have had common experiences. I don't think I have any lake house experiences. I haven't lived in places with lakes very often. I might even be afraid of lakes; it is hard to say. The longest time I've lived anywhere I've been near a beautiful glacial lake which I am particularly fond of, but that might be a horrible place to put a house because it would be very cold in winter. At any rate, that wouldn't really occur to me as an aggressive flaunting of advantage, and you might not even have known that I would have a reference point for that and be happy because I didn't know you and Val had got to see a volcanic lake and I am glad you did.
3. I would liiiie. Really ostentatiously, so that everyone would know I was lying. It is not really anyone's business if you don't feel comfortable using it as small talk, even if it's only uncomfortable as small talk because it's complex, and I think most meet cute stories have got to be oversimplified (though maybe only because I've never met anyone who turned out to be important to me in a way that could be summed as a cute one-liner with any accuracy). Silly people. I would totally tell them you were a detective and Ciro was being framed for something and then you realized you had to work together to exonerate him and bring the real art thief to justice so you could still get your fee, because of course in this scenario you needed it for scotch and a new fedora.
4. In my experience, you generally aren't obnoxious about your work. I remember being startled and impressed and then worried I'd offended Ciro because I didn't realize you were teaching little kids and family groups til you specified. I think the film has got to be a harder thing to talk about, and I tend to think of it as being similar to some of the stuff I am doing now, where the industry is seen as glamorous but the work isn't necessarily, and at this stage it is just mainly work and uncertainty and a whole lot of time and money put in without knowing how successful the effort will be. That seems like it would be really accessible to most entrepreneurs, but I often don't want to talk about it because I'm afraid I'll get defensive about how it is hard sometimes, or just sound fretful, and I feel sort of awful lately because I don't know if documenting my independent stuff more would help you feel less lonely or make it worse.
PS. I keep trying to comment to you here and honestly, I feel really shy and self-conscious and intrusive somehow and hope it is not that way in reality. (Especially since I copped to shyness and then went back and wrote a lot.) I'm not really using my dreamwidth account yet, and you already know that I think enthusiasm is kind of sweet and kind of preferable, so I am not sure my rambling in your journal adds anything. But your mention of the volcanic lake makes me think of back in spring when you replied to a comment of mine by getting all thoughtful about the Balcones Escarpment in answer to my curiosity about Dallas and dude, I think I bowed out of the thread prematurely because the pastry conversation was getting more complicated and advisory than I felt comfortable with, but man that made me so smiley because no one has mentioned the Balcones Escarpment to me since I was a really little geeky kid.
So ha! This is the most terribly awkward comment I have written in a long, long time, but I enjoy it when you talk about obscure properly-awesome geology with me as part of random conversation and that is just a fact.
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3. I would liiiie. Really ostentatiously, so that everyone would know I was lying. It is not really anyone's business if you don't feel comfortable using it as small talk, even if it's only uncomfortable as small talk because it's complex, and I think most meet cute stories have got to be oversimplified (though maybe only because I've never met anyone who turned out to be important to me in a way that could be summed as a cute one-liner with any accuracy). Silly people. I would totally tell them you were a detective and Ciro was being framed for something and then you realized you had to work together to exonerate him and bring the real art thief to justice so you could still get your fee, because of course in this scenario you needed it for scotch and a new fedora.
4. In my experience, you generally aren't obnoxious about your work. I remember being startled and impressed and then worried I'd offended Ciro because I didn't realize you were teaching little kids and family groups til you specified. I think the film has got to be a harder thing to talk about, and I tend to think of it as being similar to some of the stuff I am doing now, where the industry is seen as glamorous but the work isn't necessarily, and at this stage it is just mainly work and uncertainty and a whole lot of time and money put in without knowing how successful the effort will be. That seems like it would be really accessible to most entrepreneurs, but I often don't want to talk about it because I'm afraid I'll get defensive about how it is hard sometimes, or just sound fretful, and I feel sort of awful lately because I don't know if documenting my independent stuff more would help you feel less lonely or make it worse.
PS. I keep trying to comment to you here and honestly, I feel really shy and self-conscious and intrusive somehow and hope it is not that way in reality. (Especially since I copped to shyness and then went back and wrote a lot.) I'm not really using my dreamwidth account yet, and you already know that I think enthusiasm is kind of sweet and kind of preferable, so I am not sure my rambling in your journal adds anything. But your mention of the volcanic lake makes me think of back in spring when you replied to a comment of mine by getting all thoughtful about the Balcones Escarpment in answer to my curiosity about Dallas and dude, I think I bowed out of the thread prematurely because the pastry conversation was getting more complicated and advisory than I felt comfortable with, but man that made me so smiley because no one has mentioned the Balcones Escarpment to me since I was a really little geeky kid.
So ha! This is the most terribly awkward comment I have written in a long, long time, but I enjoy it when you talk about obscure properly-awesome geology with me as part of random conversation and that is just a fact.