act_professional_dammit sameolme Another meeting, people throwing around numbers with goal oriented finesse. She turns to me and asks, "You've dealt with these before, what do you think?" I was thinking that she looked like a cartoon dragon, but I couldn't say that. As usual , I just bullshited a bit and shut up quick. I can't talk business any more. I am transfixed by people, by persons, by the wild improbability that such a person as you or you or you really do exist and really do talk that way , and gesture like that, and look like that. They think I'm paying rapt attention to their analysis of whatever, but I'm paying attention to the child they used to be or wondering how they all keep from breaking down in laughter or tears. People are so wild, I can't be the only one who notices this, but nobody lets on, its all very business like and professional. I really can't keep it up anymore. People are the strangest critters. 040915 ... unhinged (that was his asian way of things; to turn a blind polite eye to things that could have been brought to light. we turned away from each_other that way, his professional life bleeding over to his bed) 150708 what's it to you? who go blather from