A Hermit's Life for Me! Thursday, December 16, 2004 I went grocery shopping (yes, some of you might be thinking, didn't you *jus* go...well, that was a little trip. This was a larger one, for the Holiday.) today with me mum...and it confirmed why I am pleased to be a hermit. I think that, the more you live away from people, the more your social skills deteriorate. And the thinner your "people standing" shell becomes. I could have sworn, it used to be that people didn't bother me so much...I used to ignore people who use their shopping carts to push you aside, and it didn't even phase me to say, "Excuse me, I'm sorry to interrupt the conversation the two of you are having, but could one of you move your cart?" That was me when I handled people every day as part of my job. Now, Hermit!Cindy walks *all* away around the blockade to get her white cranberry-peach juice, because she doesn't want to be rude, and besides, it's easier than interacting with those darned humans. *Is happy to be home* I'm enjoying Master and Commander quite a bit...but I can't shake the reviewer girl habit. Like, as I read last night, I thought, "Hmmm...Mowett explaining everything to the docotor...clever....I'll have to remember that, point out in this scene that O'Brian uses Doctor Maturin as a proxy for us, in fact, Maturin is sort of our everyman right now, isn't he? As he learns of the ship...so do we...hum...." But what is also fun is, as each familiar name crosses the page, how much it pleases me. Mr. Lamb! Killick! Mowett's first name is James? I especially liked, when Captain Aubrey is testing the Sophie's guncrews "...and Mr Pullings had helped run up the gun and haul on the rear tackle, gazing absently up into the sky as he did so, to prove that he was not, in fact, there at all." Huh. I like to open a new email in AOL and cut and paste my posts into it to spell check it...and it wanted me to replace everyman (which, is, I'm sure you remember, a literary term taken from the Medieval play, Everyman.) with everywoman. How blasted PC is that? Permalink Cindy scribed this at 6:00 PM 0 comments

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