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[00:37] Michael A. Joosten: Late Night Analysis with Dr. Michael Freudmendacil...
[00:37] Laura: are you kidding? i'm still a foolish newbie
[00:37] Laura: i'm petrified of sharku
[00:37] Laura: it takes all of my nerve to PM b-w
[00:37] Michael A. Joosten: You've preserved the most endearing and delightful parts of your newbieness- and possibly a few other quirks.
[00:37] Laura: it took lmp actually telling me to get over myself before i could summon the courage to talk to esty
[00:38] Laura: and getting the guts to pm pio... i can barely do it
[00:38] Michael A. Joosten: I'm most amused at your PMing the bigwigs fear... not something I've ever suffered... though I've never really had cause to PM any of them.
[00:39] Laura: it's like picking up the phone and calling people
[00:39] Laura: i loathe it
[00:39] Laura: quite terrified in most cases
[00:39] Laura: i have no problems chatting with people
[00:39] Laura: anyone, and place, any time
[00:39] Laura: but actually approaching people
[00:39] Laura: makes me dead nervous
[00:40] Laura: bravest moment of my life was raising my hand at an academic lecture run by a globally renowned expert and attended by people my grandparents' age
[00:42] Laura: i certainly still see myself as the pretentious 15-year-old that registered
[00:42] Laura: and used a lot of big words for the sake of using them
[00:42] Laura: ps, davem is scary!
[00:43] Laura: well... not scary
[00:43] Laura: actually quite hilarious
[00:43] Michael A. Joosten: Davem- scary? He's too smart for his own good, yes... but scary, no...
[00:43] Laura: but still... he's one of the... big ones
[00:43] Laura: haha
[00:43] Laura: i feel like such a kid
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Behold the beauty of self-saving MSN conversations. This one occured within the past few months, but I don't remember exactly when it was.
I've pretty much decided that the reason I avoid Books a lot is probably a bit of residual conditioning from a childhood spent hearing the words "respect your elders' all the time. How are we supposed to pseudo-saunter up to scary smart 'elders' and interrupt their conversations when many of us are young folk who've had lives thus far of formal use of titles and forced beliefs that older equals smarter, don't ask questions?
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