Theatrical Muse; 333 What are you good at (or bad at that people wouldn't expect?
That’s not as easy to answer as you might think.
Let’s see; I was reared by my mother and I married young. I’m good at noticing when a woman has new shoes, or a new hairstyle or something. I was trained in that, so well and thoroughly that I can’t ever remember not being able to do it. It’s a skill that I’d take for granted, but not all men have it.
(I’m also quite good at spotting when there’s something that a woman wants noticed. When I see that kind of body language I’m not necessarily good at guessing what it is, but just saying, “Nice shoes” in passing usually goes down well. Never try to guess what the change is if she’s already angry, though. Saying, “Your hair looks nice” when she wants you to notice that she’s taken off her wedding ring is … counter-productive. )
I’ve been told that I write better than people expect. Maybe that’s because of the stereotype of the hard-boiled detective. I was a teacher, once. Sometimes people assume that the worst teachers, the least trained, are the ones that teach the infants. It’s not true. You don’t just teach the younger ones a few facts, you teach them the foundation skills and you teach them how to learn. I taught Third Grade.
(We used to say that any fool could teach the teens, because they want to learn and they already know how to study. Some of the kids I’ve met since, in L.A., would have had me questioning every platitude like that if I’d still been a teacher, but I'd have been wrong. Those kids don't have the foundation at the early levels. They grew up thinking that they couldn'tlearn.) Anyway, idiots don’t qualify to teach primary school.
Somehow, this question has had me remembering something that happened when I knew Angel. I think I’d tried to explain that being rescued makes people feel like victims. No, that wouldn’t be it. Being victimized is what makes people feel like victims, I was arguing that giving the clients a bill to pay would give them closure.
I must have argued the case for charging them quite well. Cordy said,
“You’re a lot brighter than you look - of course, you look like a retard.”
Maybe that says it all…
Muse Doyle
Fandom, Angel, the Series.
Words 360
Let’s see; I was reared by my mother and I married young. I’m good at noticing when a woman has new shoes, or a new hairstyle or something. I was trained in that, so well and thoroughly that I can’t ever remember not being able to do it. It’s a skill that I’d take for granted, but not all men have it.
(I’m also quite good at spotting when there’s something that a woman wants noticed. When I see that kind of body language I’m not necessarily good at guessing what it is, but just saying, “Nice shoes” in passing usually goes down well. Never try to guess what the change is if she’s already angry, though. Saying, “Your hair looks nice” when she wants you to notice that she’s taken off her wedding ring is … counter-productive. )
I’ve been told that I write better than people expect. Maybe that’s because of the stereotype of the hard-boiled detective. I was a teacher, once. Sometimes people assume that the worst teachers, the least trained, are the ones that teach the infants. It’s not true. You don’t just teach the younger ones a few facts, you teach them the foundation skills and you teach them how to learn. I taught Third Grade.
(We used to say that any fool could teach the teens, because they want to learn and they already know how to study. Some of the kids I’ve met since, in L.A., would have had me questioning every platitude like that if I’d still been a teacher, but I'd have been wrong. Those kids don't have the foundation at the early levels. They grew up thinking that they couldn'tlearn.) Anyway, idiots don’t qualify to teach primary school.
Somehow, this question has had me remembering something that happened when I knew Angel. I think I’d tried to explain that being rescued makes people feel like victims. No, that wouldn’t be it. Being victimized is what makes people feel like victims, I was arguing that giving the clients a bill to pay would give them closure.
I must have argued the case for charging them quite well. Cordy said,
“You’re a lot brighter than you look - of course, you look like a retard.”
Maybe that says it all…
Muse Doyle
Fandom, Angel, the Series.
Words 360