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adrian_turtle said this afternoon led to me riffing, for the nth time, on the number of people who tell me I'm sensible.
It doesn't feel, from in here, as though I am noticeably sensible--it's as though people kept telling me I was blond (my Minnesotan friends may now look at the userpic and laugh) or emphasizing that I'm right-handed. I try to be sensible, but I know I frequently miss the mark, and it doesn't feel as though I'm better at it than other people I know.
What I said to Adrian is that, if this many people are telling me I'm sensible, either they have a very different definition of sensible than I do, or there's far less good sense in the population as a whole than I tend to think.
She said it's probably the latter, which is worrisome, though it would Explain A Lot, or at least explain this.
A third possibility, which didn't occur to me until I was proofreading this post, is that I may make unusually sensible observations and suggestions, even if I'm no more likely than other people to behave sensibly.
*Yes, as in Sense and, and the former is the quality I'm being praised for. But "sensibleness" doesn't feel like a word, and "sensible" is the adjective I seem to keep attracting.
adrian_turtle said this afternoon led to me riffing, for the nth time, on the number of people who tell me I'm sensible.It doesn't feel, from in here, as though I am noticeably sensible--it's as though people kept telling me I was blond (my Minnesotan friends may now look at the userpic and laugh) or emphasizing that I'm right-handed. I try to be sensible, but I know I frequently miss the mark, and it doesn't feel as though I'm better at it than other people I know.
What I said to Adrian is that, if this many people are telling me I'm sensible, either they have a very different definition of sensible than I do, or there's far less good sense in the population as a whole than I tend to think.
She said it's probably the latter, which is worrisome, though it would Explain A Lot, or at least explain this.
A third possibility, which didn't occur to me until I was proofreading this post, is that I may make unusually sensible observations and suggestions, even if I'm no more likely than other people to behave sensibly.
*Yes, as in Sense and, and the former is the quality I'm being praised for. But "sensibleness" doesn't feel like a word, and "sensible" is the adjective I seem to keep attracting.
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