The Cognitive Gap


I am constantly befuddled, sometimes bemused and always embarrassed by the stark difference between what I hope I am saying and what someone hears me say. Ought I to speak with algebra or geometry? History or literature? Its like fondling nutmeg nuts, praying no one notices.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

hell is other people, my friend.

whose toilet is that? i want to go to their house and steal their fancy 12 dollar magazines!!!!

Kris said...

I was thinking the same thing about that artsy bathroom reading.

Anonymous said...

jeez.
and that was when we were dirt poor.

actually one of those magazines still ives in our bathroom, some five or six years later.

Octopus Grigori said...

One of the greatest home furnishings available on the market is the bathroom reading bin.

kelvin freely said...

this may be your longest gap between blogs.

Anonymous said...

Things getting back to normal somewhat.

Anna E. Bush said...

who says what they mean anyway.
but that's one thing i know about you - you mean what you say, but usually you don't mean what you said.

scs said...

I am very into nutmeg nuts. I'm glad someone has started to talk about this.