Good Grief
Feb. 26th, 2003 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyI can't believe that I'm thinking about missing a friend's first stand-up performance because when I e-mailed her about it, she didn't seem happy that I'd be there. Didn't I get over this in junior high?
In other news: how do you know when you're an energy vampire? I mean, has anyone ever in the history of the term realized that about themselves? Where does the line between 'I like hanging out with high-energy creative people, even though I often have nothing to contribute myself' and 'I leech off the energy of others' get crossed?
Why yes, this day *has* been crappy so far.
In other news: how do you know when you're an energy vampire? I mean, has anyone ever in the history of the term realized that about themselves? Where does the line between 'I like hanging out with high-energy creative people, even though I often have nothing to contribute myself' and 'I leech off the energy of others' get crossed?
Why yes, this day *has* been crappy so far.
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Date: 2003-02-26 07:06 pm (UTC)I've known you for, ack, getting on for seven years. There's never been a time you didn't have something to contribute. An 'energy vampire' is someone whose presence people leave feeling vaguely drained and resentful, not quite sure (or maybe quite sure) why they feel like they've been forced to do 'all the work' of the evening. An energy vampire is not someone whose presence is sought out perpetually as a simultaneously hysterically funny and acutely perceptive and yet oddly mellowing and sane participant in what otherwise ends up being a tournament of insecure people performing at each other.
I've never in my whole life met anyone less a vampire than you.