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[DorkothyParker]

I know potatoes are delicious. I also know that Oregon exports more potatoes annually than Idaho. Though, Idaho potatoes are revered as being super tasty. Also, we are known as the "potato state" though officially we are the "gem state."


OMG, I am so boring!

Enjoy this titillating photograph of Marilyn Monroe. I'll play myself out. http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.27059094.jpg

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[BaldTeacher]

Well different things work for different people.I like to go out and party. I hate dancing, but everything else I like. I think dancing is stupid, but if someone else gets their kicks from it I won't try to stop them.

The question that you should be concerned about is not whether other people think you are boring, but whether or not you are happy, (not content, happy) with what you're doing. If you are, then what other people think is irrelevant. It's impossible to get everybody on your side.

[fromtheuk]

Dear Dorothy,

I suspect this individual finds you threatening. It's clear from your posts you're an intelligent lady. Perhaps this person is from a well-to-do background and sometimes people have the knack of getting under your skin.

I avoid people at work like the plague, initially they try ridicule to get me to converse with them and join the crowd. Eventually, they lose heart and carry on with life.

I make it clear through my non-verbal communication that I have no interest in them or their opinions. I don't even let them get a foot in the door. And if they choose to belittle me in person, I just mock them by imitating their own awful manners.

It's not easy, but I now love being aa social leper. But you shouldn't be defensive, if somebody calls you boring, you should insult them using fake good manners. Your critique of them should be so incisive, they regret the day they were born.

If none of this works, you could always tell us all where this person lives, provide us with sharp tools and let us all go crazy.

[Louis VI]

I tell my students that back home we glorify the weekend as a time of fun so much that not only is friday afternoon a casual time at work and school full of discussions of weekend plans ("What are you doing this weekend?" being such a common question) but also Monday morning we have pressure to talk about something interesting (How was your weekend? What did you do this wekend?) to the point that we sometimes feel we have to do something on Saturday or Sunday just to have something to talk about Monday morning!! (I make it a habit to ask my students on Fridays and Mondays about their weekends. At first their answers are boring, but week after week they finally get it and say what was interesting from their weekend, however small a tidbit it may be.)

[DorkothyParker]

I don't mean for anyone to get the wrong impression. My coworker is a really good person. He invests a great deal of time helping orphans. (Seriously, omg!)

I can't keep up with this sort of person, though. He does in a day, what I do in a year, socially.

I will try to be less emo-type in the future. Because now I feel like a silly attention *beep*. :/
It definitely is the weekend expectation that hits me. I'm going to get some breakfast here in a bit. I've actually been looking forward to coffee and bread all week. Cha-ching. Weekend highlight!

[tea_time]

You're not boring. Some people just play well on their own. Your coworker may be a nice guy some of the time, but in this instance he spoke unwisely and offered an opinion when it was not neccessary.

Your freetime is your own to use as you wish and not everyone here is at liberty to spend cash on lavish weekends out. Besides I have often given nosey coworkers very bland answers to throw them off the scent. No one needs to know if I spent my weekend reading a book, or hiking, or dancing all night.

[Leon]

You probably are boring, but so what. Most people are boring. I think that going out drinking all the time gets boring too, but I think that the key is that doing the same thing all the time is what makes it boring. Variety is the best way to keep life/yourself interesting.

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

I don't really like going out to bars and such, but I do enjoy a night in with friends, possibly some wine, and a good movie.

Those of my friends who love to go out drinking know that I'll only join them one in ten times, and won't be drinking more than one or two, but they don't mind and they're happy to come to mine for some home cooking.

I make it a rule to spend one of my weekend days relaxing. I may tidy up the apartment, do some laundry, and watch TV or read a book, but it's these rest days that recharge me for the next week at work.

This weekend, one of my girlfriends is coming to Incheon from Gangwando for a day of generally being out and about (going to meet up in Seoul first), then tomorrow we'll hit the jimjilbang for a steam and a soak. Nothing fancy, but we'll enjoy it.

[rollo]

Idaho!! I used to live in Rexburg. Just a beautiful place! paradise really. Sawtooth and Bitterroot mountains the snake river valley. I think the guy was describing your plans. Boring to him but actually sounded relaxed and quite normal. Worry about something else.

[Globutron]

I consider myself very interesting, but pretty much nobody around finds the same things interesting that I do.

So I often find either... I'm talking about something passionately, to find people have started another conversation slightly louder than my voice with someone else, or I'm talking about something passionately, before slowly fading and slurring into nothingness, realizing nobody cares about Einstein's lack of fashion sense or whatever.

But i've never, ever showed any kind of feelings about it, been bothered about it. If they don't find it interesting, it's pretty blatant that it's because THEY are boring and only want to discuss how drunk someone got the other night, or how there was something funny on TV back at home. Or how Koreans are different to us whities in some derogatory way.

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

As long as you've got good friends who don't find you boring, you're not.

Different strokes for different folks. I find going out to bars boring.

[chellovek]

[NYC_Gal 2.0]

It got old when I turned 21. I still go to be sociable every so often, but I prefer going out for lunch or dinner with friends. They can still drink all they want, but the environment is nicer, and, often, far less smoke filled.