Random lunchroom discussion

[madbaker]

Me: "I can only eat leftover lentil stew for two, maybe three days."
Cow-orker: "Otherwise you end up feeling like a 13th century English peasant."
Me: (forcibly stops self from discussing what a 13th century English peasant's diet would likely contain)
Me: "Yeah, I guess."

What I'm reading: Peter F Hamilton, Judas Unchained

Comments

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

That would be "Spam", the miracle wartime meat.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Hrm...would lentils not be a big part of it? Or is it just the struggle not to go into overly much detail?

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

They already know I'm weird - I don't play golf, I like history, and I don't like Adam Sandler movies. I try to not let them know the true extent of my nonconformist noncorporate tendencies.

It's not easy being...Weird...

[gaudete1066.livejournal.com]

At my former workplace I thought I fit in fairly well, at least overtly. Then my supervisor asked me to please "dumb down" my vocabulary. She went on to say that although my vocabulary was well received by the PhDs in the building, the rest of the occupants (herself included) were having to struggle to understand what I was saying...

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Me: (forcibly stops self from discussing what a 13th century English peasant's diet would likely contain)

Now there's one of the differences between you/your-workplace and me/my-workplace. My co-workers would wait two beats and then say, "So ... aren't you going to tell us what a 13th century English peasant would really eat?" (I took in leftover Byzantine lentils from the Collegium dinner for a work potluck. I think the response was evenly divided between "good" and "interesting".)

Your self control is admirable

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

It's not easy to stop words from forcing themselves between the lips sometimes.