crush

So I don't actually follow aroraborealis, and consequently usually miss her annual confessional post. And with 3000+ comments since Tuesday, it's like reading All Of The LJs, All At Once, and I already have a full-time job.

But someone pointed me at a thread where someone else had a Secret Crush on me. That's apparently not all that strange for the Confessional (the secret crush theme, that is, not me in particular). I feel kind of weird about that (which I'm sure is explored in some other comment thread on the Confessional (which again is why it's like reading All Teh LJs)).

I was reading something somewhere else recently about the difference between introversion and shyness. It turns out there's quite a bit of research and writing about the subject (apparently starting with a 1975 article with the appalling title "The Social Disease Called Shyness"), so I'll probably never find my way back to what I was reading earlier, but suffice it to say that I'm quite a bit of the introvert, and a bit of the shy person. I'm not blind to social cues, but I'm very cautious to act on them.

So I'm both flattered and slightly creeped out that someone might be attracted to me but not actually tell me about it. Which is not to say I don't have my own un-acted-upon attractions, but I may have mentioned them un-anonymously once or twice.

It's complicated.

glee

The wife and daughter are in a community chorale whose spring concert is "Mozart, McCartney, and Mercury". Some of the arrangements are from Glee, so we watched a bunch of YouTube clips from Glee, and then Francie borrowed the first 4 episodes on DVD from the library.

I know that, by not watching TV, we probably miss some good stuff (the inverse of Sturgeon's Law is that 10% of everything is *not* crap), but it's a risk I'm generally willing to take. Anyway, I'm so out of touch with pop culture that I don't know what the cool kids think, but I'm liking it.