Are you a phone person, or are you an emailing, texting, facebook, or twitter type of person? I started thinking about this when a friend said to me on parting yesterday, "Don't forget to call." I immediately said, "What do you mean, of course I will call." She then said, "Don't be silly, you never call. You are the worst caller on the planet." Mortified, I looked at her with shock and horror, "Is that true. Do you really mean that?" Her knowing look said it all....
I am a bad telephone person. I stand guilty before you as charged. It is true, I know it and I hang my head in female shame. I am certainly not an 'out of sight, out of mind' person but my inclinations run towards the tapping. I will spend hours, days, even weeks writing emails, replying to texts or madly bloging away. On the other hand, when it comes to picking up the telephone something always seems to get in my way.
I think my busy little tapping fingers have taken over my social skills. I have let my fingers do the chatting. Without knowing, tapping has become second nature to me, and my preferred choice of communication...quelle horreur. In the mean time I will be practising my newly found, charming telephone manner - no call will be too long and no detail too minor for discussion. I will chat until my ear or both my ears are burning; a call of this duration will require much changing of the handset between both ears. I will chat until I no longer have one tiny word or catchy little anecdote left inside to spin. I promise...
Another hyper-connected dude.
5 comments:
Wow, I did not know Dudamel played the violin so well.
Impressive. I Like.
Et c’est Los Angeles, je reviens.
Dudamel started by playing the violin before becoming a conductor – his joy and exuberance are contagious.
Venezuela is not all about Chavez and his histrionics – it could also be about El Sistema, an organization that gave birth to the likes of Dudamel through teaching music to children. I first read about this a few months back 250,000 Venezuelan teenagers and children, most from impoverished backgrounds, are participating in El Sistema that has already produced many world class musicians – Mahler and Bernstein are keeping them out of trouble – All over the world, young people have so much to give and from whom so little is expected…
Thanks for musical selection I truly enjoy them as much as your posting. You do not have to call me. :-))
thanks for the post and the music.
skip the calling.
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