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An observation

When I’m hosting a friend I haven’t seen in a while, and we’re out getting groceries, running errands, and engaging in other standard activities, all my habits suddenly seem utterly bizarre: the food I buy, the establishments I visit in the course of said errand-running, etc.

Does this happen to anyone else?

June 12, 2006 By

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  • jennekirby
    June 11, 2006 at 6:07 pm

    Yes, definitely.

    It also makes me aware of what crappy food I eat. But that’s just me.

  • spot_mcdog
    June 11, 2006 at 6:24 pm

    Of course.

    heh, this is not an LJ… LIAR!!!

  • ribinder
    June 11, 2006 at 10:02 pm

    yes.

    I think it has to do with the whole seeing yourself through someone else’s eyes thing. You know, people are mirrors. They reflect. Kind of shiny.

  • dirtylibrarian
    June 11, 2006 at 11:38 pm

    The longer I live alone the more I find myself confronted with weird habits when other people are around. Like that I don’t realize I have a certain way of doing something, or that certain things have particular spots, until someone else does it different. Other people’s perspective can really throw you off!

  • anonymous
    June 12, 2006 at 6:28 am

    It happpens to me too. For me it’s just that I get nervous because I haven’t seen them in awhile.

  • nevikmoore
    June 12, 2006 at 9:17 am

    As a parent, it can get weirder. Especially when you have to act like a parent. Everything stops for the lecture on appropriate behavior or the don’t make me say it again reminder. Suddenly you go from Casual Conversationalist to Super Pendantic Party Pooper Jerk.

  • anonymous
    June 13, 2006 at 6:07 am

    Dude, not to sound harsh, but you sure are taking you’re sweet time writing ‘the rules for hearts’. I’m dying, literally dying, to read it.

  • thisisnotanlj
    June 13, 2006 at 1:40 pm

    yikes, don’t die!

    the thing is, once a book’s been written, it still needs to go through the process of being edited and copyedited, the physical book needs to be designed (the cover, back cover, jacket flaps, interior typeface), it needs to be described for the publisher’s catalog…et cetera. and that all takes time.

    but thanks for your enthusiasm and your patience! :)

  • anonymous
    June 14, 2006 at 3:41 pm

    There was a question before, and I was wondering the answer too, but you didn’t resopond. The question went like this:

    I was pleased to see the summary for ur lovely new book which is told from battle’s point of view..but I was wondering…Nicola isn’t mentioned..and is the pairing still the same, or…

    …i liked them both together and hope its still the same..^^

    sorry,maybe it’s just my paranoid mind…*sigh*

    Could you please answer this question? I would like to know too.

  • anonymous
    June 14, 2006 at 3:43 pm

    Yeah, I wanna know the answer too.
    (Stupid thing, it won’t even let me indent!)
    -Sophie

  • thisisnotanlj
    June 14, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    but you know what? i honestly didn’t even know that summary was up on amazon until i just now checked. so thanks for the heads up that it’s there!

  • anonymous
    June 15, 2006 at 4:20 am

    yeah. this happens to me. i compare my friends to myself and i seem quite odd in comparison. though, i’m only a freshman in high school so it’s not like there’s much to compare to yet. :D

  • anonymous
    June 15, 2006 at 4:23 am

    is the new book gonna be in paperback? hardcover gets expensive. LOL. please answer…

  • satchel_92
    June 15, 2006 at 6:59 am

    But I like hard backs, they don’t get bent and stuff.

  • anonymous
    June 15, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    Omg, it’s amazing! I didn’t know there was actually a openly bisexual YA writer out there. I mean, it seems like it’s either straight or gay, no in between. It’s nice to know there is someone else out there who likes both. I just wanted to say I loved your book (just finished reading it, it’s 1:35 in the morning) and yeah, all that other stuff. The name’s Allie, and she’s not sure what she is, but she has a girlfriend she loves and adores more than anything. allhailkurt@gmail.com if you wanna know more. If you think about things for too long, everything seems bizarre. I tried that once with my siblings. you know, that they all have worries and stuff that I don’t know about and how they’re completely different even though we live in the same house and were raised by the same people. Or, how you know, everything in your house seems so familiar but when you go to someone else’s house it’s all foreign and that they feel the same way in your home. Or the fact that there is someone out there (lots of people) thaat have never even heard of your hometown and if it got destroyed (along with you and the other people in it), they wouldn’t even notice.

    Anywhoo, yeah so I know what you mean