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As I've mentioned before, I apparently come across as flirtatious fairly frequently (Yay alliteration!) without meaning to. Today, I think I figured out why.

By default, I like people and find them interesting. When I talk with someone, even if it's only in passing (checkout clerks, person behind me in line, etc.), I focus on him/her/them and pay attention. I try to connect with him/her/them, even if only momentarily. And in the modern culture of public seclusion*, this behavior is so unusual that it's frequently misconstrued and shoved into the next best understood category, flirting. I'm not trying to flirt, I'm just being myself. Besides, I don't think I can intentionally flirt. The few times I've tried... Well, let's just say that the results weren't pretty.

Add to this the fact that I like to make people feel good. (Not like that, you pervs! ...Well, okay. SOMEtimes like that. But only in private) I like to cheer people up, to make their lives a little happier. I chat with the waitstaff about movies, I recommend restaurants to patients, I lend books to the clerk at the comic shop I frequent, I talk about the decline of good TV with that guy in line behind me at the checkout. And these people feel better when I'm gone. Random acts of happiness.


* Public seclusion: the tendency to, when in public or interacting with strangers, close oneself off and "ignore" the presence of others. This behavior is possibly a psycho-evolutionary response to the population pressure and anonymity of urban life.

Memorable

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If you read this, even if i don't speak to you often, you must post a memory of me.
It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad, just so long as it happened.
Then post this to your journal. See what people remember about you...

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Oh Lord! The cute!
This is the newest Albino Black Sheep flash, but click here for the full effect. Never have I had a cleaner monitor. 8-)

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My sister Sara's fiancé, Michael, was hired by L3 this week, and put Sara on his health plan. So they now have 2 steady incomes and benefits! I'm glad for them.

They had to postpone the wedding because of the situation with Grandma, but Michael's father is (as I understand it) giving them a house for a wedding present. This isn't quite as extravagant as it seems, since Michael's dad buys, renovates, and resells houses for a living, and Michael and Sara would take on the mortgage payments, but it's still an incredible gift.

Anyway, with the official hiring, Michael is already moving some of his would-be-in-storage-anyway stuff over to the house prior to the wedding. I think that he's going to move in with Sara and I until the house is officially theirs, but I'm not sure. In any case, Sara will be moving out of the apartment within the next few months, and I need to start looking for a new roommate, since there's no way I can afford this place by myself on my current income.

I've been lucky in the past; I started off in a 1-bedroom and moved in with a FoaF (friend of a friend) when his old roommate (my cousin's boyfriend at the time) moved out. Then FoaF moved out & Sara moved in, and now we're here at the new apartment. So I don't really have any experience with roommate-hunting.

Frankly, my ideal solution would be to keep the apartment by myself, but see above comment re: not enough income. ::sigh:: Life's complicated, isn't it?

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Random post before I go to bed:

What are some of the obscure TV shows you miss? The ones you loved for whatever reason and no-one else seems to remember? Leave a reply with the shows you wish more people remembered.

Roundhouse
The Hidden Temple
VR5
Dark Water
Doug
Eerie, Indiana
Pete & Pete
Aeon Flux

Yes, I know that most of these are kids' shows off of Nickelodeon, but you've gotta admit that the old-school Nick shows are, as a whole, a metric shit-load better than the current fare.