(64) Apparently I have a way of making people feel inadequate. This is ironic since I'm usually plagued by my own inadequacies. But this came to my attention during the road trip my wife and I were on last week. In the course of our couch hoping, we ended up staying with a college friend on the Eastern seaboard and got a chance to meet her boyfriend. I really liked the guy. In my mind, my conversation with him sounded like this:
Dude: "Yeah, I'm really into creative writing."
Greg: "Really? Me too!"
Dude: "I've never published anything. I'd really like to develop my creative writing by going to graduate school at the local state university."
Greg: "Neat, I'm in graduate school myself."
Dude: "I think I might like to teach high school at some point."
Greg: "Cool, I'm in teaching as well."
My wife, upon later reflection, said the conversation went a little more like this:
Dude: "Yeah, I'm really into creative writing."
Greg: "Really? I just finished editing my fourth novel. I'm really proud of this one and think it will sell. I've got about four or five short fiction publications right now..."
Dude: "I've never published anything. I'd really like to develop my creative writing by going to graduate school at the local community university."
Greg: Oh community school huh? I'm at Georgetown right now. One year left on the Masters!
Dude: "I think I might like to teach high school at somepoint."
Greg: "Like 'em young eh? Yeah, I teach college students."
In my defense I can't help being awesome. Joking. And the above is a dramatic exaggeration.
(64) Apparently I have a way of making people feel inadequate. This is ironic since I'm usually plagued by my own inadequacies. But this came to my attention during the road trip my wife and I were on last week. In the course of our couch hoping, we ended up staying with a college friend on the Eastern seaboard and got a chance to meet her boyfriend. I really liked the guy. In my mind, my conversation with him sounded like this:
1 comment:
yeah, you've made me feel bad about myself on more than one occasion too.
although your friend may have been thinking, 'i'm paying a 100th of what he is for school right now and when it comes to writing...who cares where your degree is from?'
the novel is great. i'm almost done.
*please note the sarcasm in the first paragraph and the genuineness in the second one.
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