i read this in my book today, and it totally cracked me up:
"if roger had been out buying milk and i had been on the other side of the street and i had told him that, if he didn't cross over, things would be finished between us, he would have shouted 'no, i'm going to buy milk' and he would have continued". i love it. in the past, i've both known that person and been that person. too hilarious.
i wonder sometimes about what is absent from conversations over the internet. the tone, the meaning, the truth. do you take everything at face value or are you aware that many things that are said are guarded forms of the truth. i totally take everything at face value. what i'm getting at is... that i could type a REALLY CRAZY EXCITED paragraph with a TON of punctuation!!!!!?!?!? and one might think i'm VERY EXCITED about what i'm saying!!! when really i'm falling over exhausted. the computer-written word is much harder to decipher than the hand-written word.
it bothers me that it bothers me.
stay out super late tonight
picking apples, making pies.
3 comments:
i think email does have tones.
especially when caplocks are on.
i agree. what i was trying to say (but wasn't clear) is that true tone is easy to hide. sometimes if i'm really crazy excited about something, i tone it down for an email to come across like a normal person. or if i'm upset or angry i manage to be composed. those kind of emotion is hard to hide in person (at least for me).
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