[1020] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Above All
eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 21 23:36:04 1990
A possibly important question:
Do you worry *before* making important decisions, *after*, or both?
Likewise, do you worry enough about the decision that you do not consider it
reversible afterwards?
Or is it not really "decisions" as such but "actions"? (or am I being
so fuzzy here as to be incomprehensible?)
I don't know if they make a difference, just that they provide another
tangent for your introspection...
As for "having a girlfriend" - well, nothing I can say can encourage you, so
I'll just gripe a little myself --- I have had a somewhat close group of
friends here, but (1) it is small [smaller than SIPB] (2) I don't meet people
outside of work ["sort of" an occupational hazard... mostly the lack of places
to "hang out" and meet people in the "real world" though] (3) Of the three
women, one (my boss) is married+expecting, one is engaged (to someone else
in the group), and one -- well, her tastes and mine don't align, and she stays
just a bit outside of the group most of the time anyhow. Most of the rest of
the people I deal with only see me as a wizard [something I didn't get away
from until I got to MIT - at MIT there were LOTS of wizards :-)] I'll bet the
"outside world" would look on it as mighty weird that I look at the chance to
hang around the SIPB office again as a chance to resurrect a social life...
Grumble grumble... and people wonder why I dial in from home for hours
at a time :-)
