http://cluckfuster.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] cluckfuster.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] overocea 2011-06-30 04:22 am (UTC)

Options:
- Instead of just saying 'nah', you've come up with an elaborate explanation that sounds somewhat scientific as why you made the decision to sit and take written notes, rather than it just not bothering you, and that you made the decision out of a lack of thought - so that your supervisor thinks you made a decision that works best for you and doesn't feel like you made that decision because you weren't sure about whether you could be at the computer or not, and just be too far along with your notes to move, even if writing was uncomfortable.
- You made up a scientific sounding story to sound a bit smarter & self-aware, as if this is something that people do in general and you've just observed this because you're interesting
- You made up a story to give yourself a quirky idiosyncrasy that divides you from a group, as if this is something people *don't* do in general, so your supervisor remembers you as an individual
- A Combo? Fuck, I don't know. I'd go with one of those three.

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