360 Degrees of Separation
11:50PM, March 8th, 2007
Don’t you hate it when some one says “I was talking to a friend of yours,” but you have no clue who it was? It makes you wonder who is going around spouting your name and sharing your dirty secrets. Actually, I have no dirty secrets. I promise. Don’t go asking.
This alleged friend of mine today was described as a male ballroom dancer in fourth year commerce/law, had one particular mutual friend and was in a tutorial of mine at uni. I broke it down Sherlock Holmes style. Of all the people in this session’s tutes, I knew no one prior to the first class, and those I met I only told them I was a musician, not involved in theatre*. As for previous tutorials, very few I met I told I was in theatre, and those would certainly not know our mutual friend. In fact, the whole mutual friend thing is puzzling, because anyone who knew our mutual friend would surely know the relater of the story.
What if some of the information was wrong? Who do I know who was a dancer in a tute? No one. Who do I know who is in fourth year Commerce/Law? No one.
Such are the puzzles of life. Identify yourself, man.
* I took particular delight in announcing, after 18 people declared their majors in Info Tech, Business Admin, Human Resources etc, that my major was in Sound Composition. The lecturer came up to me during the tute and said “You’ll probably be able to manage even without a computing background.” I stopped short of opening my MacBook in a classroom of PC laptops. No one likes the prettiest dog at the park.
Mystery Solved! He knew me from seeing me in a show (and assumedly recognised me from the tute). There’s always a solution!
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Specific Overtures
7:06PM, March 1st, 2007
Oh March. You get me every year. This little trick you’ve got going with your friend, February, tagging him just a bit earlier than everyone suspects. You’re a sneaky fellow.
Don’t get me wrong, March. You’re a top guy. Sure, you always seem to be jam packed full of appointments and commitments as people begin to sober up from Christmas, but that’s kinda why I like you. You make it feel like a year again. You push me in all the right ways, and ask little in return.
I’m a fan of yours, March. A big fan. Of each of your 31 days. I like you a lot. Between us, I like you a lot better than April. He always has far too much shit going on with his Easter thing.
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You know, that’s very similar to the way people react to railway employees saying that they work on the Railways. First question is always “Do you know so and so? He/she is a cleaner.” Of course, we know all 4000 odd people who work on the railways intimately so I automatically know exactly who they are talking about, where they work and what colour their underwear is.
Of course, I was told this story by a friend of a friends cousins mothers sister who has a daughter who works in a building in Sydney next to that tall one that looks like a block of cement with windows……
Comment by Kevin — March 9, 2007 @ 10:03 am
Kevin - Ahhh, yes. The one with the windows. Gotcha.
Comment by Tyson — March 9, 2007 @ 10:09 am
Hehe… that reminds me of the time this chinese girl asked me if I knew Daniel Jones (ex-Savage Garden) because we both lived in Australia. I told her that we were best friends and he can’t get through a day without calling me for advice. Unfortunately, with her limited english, she inadvertantly missed my ‘lol’ etc afterwards and explaining the whole joke. She semi-stalked me for months afterwards wanting to know all about him. The lesson to be learned from this? Never assume that everyone online is sane. :)
Comment by Minty — March 9, 2007 @ 11:57 am
Minty - I don’t blame her. It doesn’t take anyone special to know Daniel Jones these days, does it?
Comment by Tyson — March 9, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
you are still the kid from love actually!!!!!
Maybe the guy also watched the movie the other week!!!
Comment by Kass — March 9, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
Kass - I don’t look anything like him, but I would certainly appreciate his income.
Comment by Tyson — March 11, 2007 @ 1:04 am
Excellent bedtime story Tyson…
I’ve had my fix from your blog site, and this message is going no where so I’m off…
Comment by Troy — March 13, 2007 @ 12:13 am
Troy - Sometimes the mundane is so captivating. Other times (like here), it is not.
Comment by Tyson — March 13, 2007 @ 12:46 am