You think too much.

Returning a stranger's smile
Deciding last minute
To stop watching my feet
And look at the stranger passing me by
(And she is cute)
And she smiles at me and I smile back.
Doesn't mean anything
Other than "Hello human being"
It doesn't have to.

Walking along the Clyde
Thinking about a blog post
Wasn't feeling like blogging for a long time
But sometimes I want to say something.
Doesn't have to be perfect
(Doesn't have to make sense)
But you get to thinking that it has to be
Just to make sure they'll listen
But maybe it doesn't have to.

Third post.

On 'Psychic Vampires'

I was going through the list of meet-ups (on Meetup.com) for Glasgow and eventually came upon a Satanists' meetup.

It held my interest because I have been here less than a year in Scotland, where the people are so much more sociable, community-minded, personable -- and talkative, boy are they talkative -- than the English, especially Londoners, and lo and behold, here is a group that stands for none of these things. And it's weirdly thrilling.

Don't get me wrong. I like that I can just talk to the odd stranger more easily than I could in London. I am timid enough that it -- subconsciously -- comes as a major relief that people don't abuse me or ignore me when I reach out. My conversations don't last that long anyway!

But the 'payback' comes when the odd stranger starts talking to me ... and then finally at me, about every last detail and worry and problem in their heads, while I nod and smile and try to 'put myself in their shoes'. Here this happens more often than you would think, and I don't think I'm used to this as yet. When I am the one that doesn't want to engage, it's hard to say 'no'. Perhaps it was this permissive nature that allowed one member of the group to comment that he's "self-less to a fault and [has been] especially susceptible to psychic vampires in the past".

And now I find myself wanting to read Anton LaVey's bio, if not his book .

Whether I want to join the group (of individualists!) … probably not.

You can't go home again

oletalk:
i never got to claim that legacy blog..... sigh
*shrug*

W:
legacy blog?

oletalk:
it was sending me in a 4-screen endless loop
i had opened up a blog like 5 years ago i think, just to be able to comment on other ppl's blogger blogs
before google blogged
sorry swallowed blogger
so it reminded me i could claim the blog
(blog blog blog)
and i tried to
oh how i tried
but it kept sending me in a loop

W:
ohhhhhhhh

oletalk:
over and over

W:
so u've just signed up for a whle new blogger identity??? poor u

oletalk:
LMAO
yeah yeah yeah
"say it ain't sooooooo oletalk "