Overheard

“It’s all juice coming from the same place, I don’t see how that makes it redundant.”

I was sitting at my desk when someone on the other side of the cube wall walked by and I heard this snippet of conversation. I don’t know who it was or specifically what they were talking about, but it made me pause for a second and think about it. Where is the juice coming from? Where is it going? Is this in relation to a building system, or some tiny electrical component? After a couple of seconds I snapped out of it, but it made me wonder how many of these bits of conversation I hear in a day, and then promptly, after a second or two of consideration, flush out of my short term memory.

This will be a record of those bits that I hear today, I’ll add them to the post as they occur. If there are no more, or if I find all the rest of them to be terribly boring, this post is done.

“Kids are going to fall off the swingset, and when they do you need to ignore them.”

[edit] So what I learned yesterday is that I tune most people out. Even when I’m trying to pay more attention to them, I spend most of my time in my own head – planning, replaying songs, conversing with myself, daydreaming about ruling the Earth, whatever. It’s a little disconcerting to notice my constant internal dialouge so much, so I’m reverting back to my pre-self-aware state as of now… Ahh, that’s better. [/edit]