I'm Home!

[osprey_archer]

I'm home! I'm so happy!

It's not that I'm unhappy at college - I like college - but sometimes I don't like being at college, being constantly surrounded by people and activity, shouting in the corridors and sound seeping through the walls. It's exhausting. The world, outside LJ, was built for extraverts.

I wonder if there's ever been a study done on how many LJ users self-identify as introverts? I think it skews introverted, certainly more so than the general population, but that could be sampling error on my part.

But now I'm home, and tomorrow I have a blissful day of solitude. I have Dexter DVDs to watch (I love Dexter. Does anyone watch Dexter?), books to read (Twilight #4, Interview with a Vampire [God help me, I'm becoming Vampire Girl], and An Abundance of Catherines), posts to write (yes, I sometimes write them in advance), and fanfic to edit (this one had no parenthetical note, but it felt neglected so I took pity).

It's going to be a good day.

Comments

[enemyfrigate.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for happiness!

I was thinking of writing up a list called "If the World Were Designed for Introverts" - want to help?

Ideas include 1) Good soundproofing would be standard EVERYWHERE, and 2) Everyone would have a private office, with a door. That closes.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

YES. YES. Write the list, and then we will use it to take over the world and remake it in the image of introversion!

The first two ideas sound tremendous. Also: 3) Quiet hours would actually be QUIET (although I guess with soundproofing that wouldn't be necessary), and 4) there would be government-funded weekend retreats to remote woodlandy places.

Have you read this article (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch)? It's a hoot.

[enemyfrigate.livejournal.com]

Those are good ideas - luckily, I can go off to remote woodland-y places 15 minutes away. I always says it's the only place I can be alone (with the horses, that is).

I love that article; I hand it out to new friends sometimes. I'll definitely have to post that on my LJ - perhaps we should declare an Introvert Week after Christmas and try to beat some sense into people.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Introvert Week sounds like a great idea. How we just need a publicity scheme. :p

[enemyfrigate.livejournal.com]

If you tell five people and they tell five people...I guess we need to work out which week and then just ask people to spread the word in their LJs, maybe ask mods of communities to post it.

[exuberantself.livejournal.com]

I think introverts are more likely to identify with the LJ community because it's pretty easy to select what and how much you share, and, well, to avoid stupid and/or annoying people.

Also, yay for parallelism in parantheticals.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Yes. Real life is full of exasperating people, and LJ probably has them too but they're so much easier to avoid.

Parallelism is love. I always harp on about it to my tutees, once I've beaten them over the head about their thesis statements.

[enemyfrigate.livejournal.com]

I love that you really determine your level of participation on LJ; I don't think the 80 percent of the world which are extroverts get how much pressure there is on introverts to conform to uncomfortable social expectations.

It also allows a controlled environment to meet new people - usually through their fic and LJ comments before directly speaking to them - AND a controlled way to respond to communication.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Yes! I love the fact that I can research people before friending them - they have whole journals full of stuff I can poke through. It's nice both because it's controlled and it's a way to get to know people without being as exposed as you are in person.

Also, friending memes. I absolutely love friending memes.

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

That article is fantastic...and absolutely true.

My idea of luxury is time by myself, not having people speaking at me. Bliss.

I applaud the idea of an Introverts' Week - after the general festive period it could actually be medically necessary.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I think Introvert Week sounds like a great idea, too. We can recite "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and generally extoll the awesomeness of solitude.

[enemyfrigate.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should block out mid to late January for Introverts Week (yes, I am serious!)

We can link to good articles/info, talk about how the world affects us, how fandom plays to our strengths...maybe even write some fic. And of course, debut our list of how things would be if the world were designed by introverts.

Sound good?

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Sure. I'll post about it here, at least, (although given that like ten people read this don't expect too much).

Also, the idea of Introvert Propaganda Fic makes me giggle. I'm not sure how one would write that - Jack complains that Tosh is spending too much time on her own?

"You can't love yourself that much, Toshiko," Jack said, waggling his eyebrows suggestively.

Tosh reflected grimly that Jack, who knew so much about every other kink ever created, had never even heard of introversion.

Or rather, he had, but by the fifty-fourth century being accused of introversion was like accusing an M.P. of homosexuality in the 1950s.

....

Ahem. The list would also be a great idea.

[silksieve.livejournal.com]

Enjoy home!!

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

yay! enjoy your break. ; )