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I'm sitting here clearing my throat repeatedly - breathing in grape juice is really irritating to the windpipes. I can't even eat a grape without screwing it up.;)
Hm, my entry got rather long, I'll cut.
So, I gave the print-outs (paper on Junia and Salon article about "Biological Exuberance") to the people for whom they were printed.
Now, NotVery was the one who so intensely denied that there was ever homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom, last Thursday. So I handed him this rather long review of the apparently dauntingly huge tome that is "Biological Exuberance," just saying "You asked me to print you out something, so here you go."
He skimmed through it, then tossed it back at me saying, "And you can't believe everything you read, either."
I said, "Well, the book is rather long, so I assume he found lots of examples."
He just rolled his eyes at me. At that point I felt I had done more than my share and he would only get very annoyed if I went any further with it, because he obviously is insistent on believing what he believes no matter how much fact I try to set before him. So I didn't bother to tell him that when I was in high school I had two tom cats who I observed having sex one day. What's the point? Anyway.
Later I told his soon-to-be-roommate, ElvenGirl, about this (because I'd told her the first half of the story last Thursday), and she just shrugged and gave me a sort of apologetic smile, saying, "Well. He's from Waterville." Her people are Lewiston French Catholic, and she was doing a very tongue-in-cheek implication that of course she comes from a group which is much more advanced and far superior to his people, who are Waterville French Catholic. And no, she wasn't serious at all; she was just acknowledging that he's one of those people whose opinion will not be changed.
So that bit was weird and negative, but I expected it would be.
The other little gift worked out exactly opposite. First thing when Preacher saw me he came up and started to apologize for having made me feel bad on Friday, and I said not to worry about it because he's always been great. He has - he's a super nice guy. And I followed that up with "I was thinking about you over the weekend, and I found this paper for you. Unfortunately, this guy doesn't agree with you, but I kind of think he wanted to. I think he felt he had to write what he knew his professor or whoever wanted to hear."
He got three quarters of the way through the paper over lunch, and after lunch I asked him what he'd found out. At this point he was standing at the walk-through and I was at the loading position, so he had to speak rather loudly, and he began enthusiastically telling me that he thought the author of the paper was wrong. Of course he then had to explain to our other co-workers what he was talking about, and as he was expounding about Junia and the probable mistranslation of her name to the masculine form, Junias, a woman who was sitting in the snack bar area directly across from the checkpoint lifted her head and looked straight at him. He said to her, "Yes, I'm arguing your side! Are you surprised?" She said she was pleased, and went back to what she was reading. In much quieter tones he explained to us that she's someone he used to work with and he respects very very highly. She used to be a nun, now she's something like Chair of the board for Mercy Hospital and speaks at seminars about spirituality and business. Later he got to talk with her some more and tell her about this paper he happened to be reading. As we were walking out to the parking lot after work he expressed that it was really cool that the timing of that worked out so neatly that he was able to have this to talk with her about. :)
I also told ElvenGirl that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lemondropgirl thought her belly was quite nice. I only told her that because I know ElvenGirl always seems quite flattered if people find her attractive, even if she's not interested in them. She said to thank lemondropgirl for her.;)
Hm, my entry got rather long, I'll cut.
So, I gave the print-outs (paper on Junia and Salon article about "Biological Exuberance") to the people for whom they were printed.
Now, NotVery was the one who so intensely denied that there was ever homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom, last Thursday. So I handed him this rather long review of the apparently dauntingly huge tome that is "Biological Exuberance," just saying "You asked me to print you out something, so here you go."
He skimmed through it, then tossed it back at me saying, "And you can't believe everything you read, either."
I said, "Well, the book is rather long, so I assume he found lots of examples."
He just rolled his eyes at me. At that point I felt I had done more than my share and he would only get very annoyed if I went any further with it, because he obviously is insistent on believing what he believes no matter how much fact I try to set before him. So I didn't bother to tell him that when I was in high school I had two tom cats who I observed having sex one day. What's the point? Anyway.
Later I told his soon-to-be-roommate, ElvenGirl, about this (because I'd told her the first half of the story last Thursday), and she just shrugged and gave me a sort of apologetic smile, saying, "Well. He's from Waterville." Her people are Lewiston French Catholic, and she was doing a very tongue-in-cheek implication that of course she comes from a group which is much more advanced and far superior to his people, who are Waterville French Catholic. And no, she wasn't serious at all; she was just acknowledging that he's one of those people whose opinion will not be changed.
So that bit was weird and negative, but I expected it would be.
The other little gift worked out exactly opposite. First thing when Preacher saw me he came up and started to apologize for having made me feel bad on Friday, and I said not to worry about it because he's always been great. He has - he's a super nice guy. And I followed that up with "I was thinking about you over the weekend, and I found this paper for you. Unfortunately, this guy doesn't agree with you, but I kind of think he wanted to. I think he felt he had to write what he knew his professor or whoever wanted to hear."
He got three quarters of the way through the paper over lunch, and after lunch I asked him what he'd found out. At this point he was standing at the walk-through and I was at the loading position, so he had to speak rather loudly, and he began enthusiastically telling me that he thought the author of the paper was wrong. Of course he then had to explain to our other co-workers what he was talking about, and as he was expounding about Junia and the probable mistranslation of her name to the masculine form, Junias, a woman who was sitting in the snack bar area directly across from the checkpoint lifted her head and looked straight at him. He said to her, "Yes, I'm arguing your side! Are you surprised?" She said she was pleased, and went back to what she was reading. In much quieter tones he explained to us that she's someone he used to work with and he respects very very highly. She used to be a nun, now she's something like Chair of the board for Mercy Hospital and speaks at seminars about spirituality and business. Later he got to talk with her some more and tell her about this paper he happened to be reading. As we were walking out to the parking lot after work he expressed that it was really cool that the timing of that worked out so neatly that he was able to have this to talk with her about. :)
I also told ElvenGirl that
lemondropgirl thought her belly was quite nice. I only told her that because I know ElvenGirl always seems quite flattered if people find her attractive, even if she's not interested in them. She said to thank lemondropgirl for her.;)