I'm still not sure whether this is a compliment
thestraymutt: Ah Kelly you're too hard on yourself. It isn't about "can" or "can't". He knows he can talk to you, about anything--but you're 100% genuine in all of your reactions to everything, which he loves, but I suspect that he also feels a little of what you feel when you react to him talking about that stuff. It's the conscience thing. Most of us are pretty good at keeping that little voice in the back of our heads from making itself known. But then you say exactly what it was saying in the first place, and people can get unnerved
thestraymutt: Likewise
thestraymutt: I can be overbearing and cause people to not want to discuss the very subjects that I'm interested in
thestraymutt: lol, so you want to listen to people but your honesty scares them, and i want to debate with people but the way I go about it discourages them
thestraymutt: in summary, we suck at life
This is rather a fun, introspective conversation. I just made a long, possibly incomprehensible metaphor involving a shark. In other news, I have a quote of the day, actually, regarding the lack of men in the field of art history: "This is one of the reasons I decided not to get a master's degree in art history. I was like, 'Ugh, I'd never get married.'" That came from a girl in my Roman art class.
It is so true! On the first day of Mexican Muralism, when a guy walked in I honestly thought he was lost. He wasn't, and he's been fun to have around, actually. Before he got up to give his final presentation he was being all nervous and I told him to just turn on the charm. Being the only guy in a room full of art history majors, we'd just melt. When I told another professor, Bauman, that we had a boy in the class, she reacted with a huge gasp ("A boy???") while clasping her hands to her chest in shock. It was hilarious.