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Jan. 16th, 2006 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tohma2004Everyday I realize just how much I hate telephones. They have to be the most awful invention of mankind. I don't know what it is that I dislike so much but I just...I can't stand them. Everytime it rings I work I run the other way, hoping someone else will answer it.
I mean...I'm a communications major right? Well why the hell is it so hard for me to communicate?? Phones are a part of the whole communication world and yet I just can't bring myself to use them. I hate calling anyone, I hate answering the phone when it rings. It's like that once piece of equipment is carrying the plague or something and if I touch too many I'm going to get infected.
I think the only reason I carry my celphone is in case some tragedy occurs and I need to get help. Pam calls home and my family a lot when she is out. I never call home if I'm leaving work or anything. If I can avoid using the phone all day then I consider it a good day. I think there is just something lost when someone is trying to talk to you over the phone.
Customers call and they want help with finding a specific item and it is almost like some sort of translator device blocks the calls and turns what they want into some strange language that I don't understand. It usually involves me passing the phone to someone else and then realizing after they answer the question that I probably actually knew the answer...why does the phone make me stupid?
But anyway...enough about that evil contraption. What brings this up you ask? My secret I guess.
Actually I've been doing a lot of thinking about a lot of things lately and my thought process usually ends up taking me off onto tangents such as the one above and I really don't know why. I think I've just gotten to the point where I have made the trip to work so much that I'm running out of things to think about and so I get these random little thoughts like how much I hate phones.
But I think I also figured out why I never IM people or why I never call anyone. I don't want to bother them. I'm always afraid that I'll call at a bad time or IM them when they are busy...so I just wait for them to contact me, cause I'm never doing anything terribly important when I am online but I also don't have constant internet or have my AIM open all the time. My online time is so limited because of dialup that I just run through the sites I like to check and then I do random things until I feel like I've tied up the phone line too long. So I never IM anyone unless I have something extremely important to tell them...which with the way life is right now, is never.
The phone is the same way. I don't want to interrupt anyones life and I can't come up with random crap to talk about. And since I don't have anything exciting that anyone would want to know about I figure its better to not waste their time.
So you see...random thoughts. Maybe it is because I haven't slept well lately...I was beginning to blame it on the fact that my insides felt like they were being torn from me a few times this week. Actually, ALL day Friday they felt like that. Work was horrible. It got to the point where I couldn't even stand up. Its the same problem I have had for awhile and I wish I had some answer as to how to make it stop...but doctors suck.
oh yeah, will I need a parking pass while at Hollins or anything? Like a guest pass or something so I don't have to wander around Roanoke from 8 to 4PM everyday? Still planning on arriving tomorrow. Probably stay in the apartment but might start out my night at Tinker tomorrow. I'll be coming straight from work so I guess I won't really know the answer to my question...ah well, I'll figure it out when I get there.
Thats it...sorry this turned out to be long and about nothing in particular..
I mean...I'm a communications major right? Well why the hell is it so hard for me to communicate?? Phones are a part of the whole communication world and yet I just can't bring myself to use them. I hate calling anyone, I hate answering the phone when it rings. It's like that once piece of equipment is carrying the plague or something and if I touch too many I'm going to get infected.
I think the only reason I carry my celphone is in case some tragedy occurs and I need to get help. Pam calls home and my family a lot when she is out. I never call home if I'm leaving work or anything. If I can avoid using the phone all day then I consider it a good day. I think there is just something lost when someone is trying to talk to you over the phone.
Customers call and they want help with finding a specific item and it is almost like some sort of translator device blocks the calls and turns what they want into some strange language that I don't understand. It usually involves me passing the phone to someone else and then realizing after they answer the question that I probably actually knew the answer...why does the phone make me stupid?
But anyway...enough about that evil contraption. What brings this up you ask? My secret I guess.
Actually I've been doing a lot of thinking about a lot of things lately and my thought process usually ends up taking me off onto tangents such as the one above and I really don't know why. I think I've just gotten to the point where I have made the trip to work so much that I'm running out of things to think about and so I get these random little thoughts like how much I hate phones.
But I think I also figured out why I never IM people or why I never call anyone. I don't want to bother them. I'm always afraid that I'll call at a bad time or IM them when they are busy...so I just wait for them to contact me, cause I'm never doing anything terribly important when I am online but I also don't have constant internet or have my AIM open all the time. My online time is so limited because of dialup that I just run through the sites I like to check and then I do random things until I feel like I've tied up the phone line too long. So I never IM anyone unless I have something extremely important to tell them...which with the way life is right now, is never.
The phone is the same way. I don't want to interrupt anyones life and I can't come up with random crap to talk about. And since I don't have anything exciting that anyone would want to know about I figure its better to not waste their time.
So you see...random thoughts. Maybe it is because I haven't slept well lately...I was beginning to blame it on the fact that my insides felt like they were being torn from me a few times this week. Actually, ALL day Friday they felt like that. Work was horrible. It got to the point where I couldn't even stand up. Its the same problem I have had for awhile and I wish I had some answer as to how to make it stop...but doctors suck.
oh yeah, will I need a parking pass while at Hollins or anything? Like a guest pass or something so I don't have to wander around Roanoke from 8 to 4PM everyday? Still planning on arriving tomorrow. Probably stay in the apartment but might start out my night at Tinker tomorrow. I'll be coming straight from work so I guess I won't really know the answer to my question...ah well, I'll figure it out when I get there.
Thats it...sorry this turned out to be long and about nothing in particular..
