Terminalcoffee discussion
Exactly how dull are you?(We hate the phone)

1. Oatmeal for breakfast most mornings
2. Taking my vitamins (Flintstones and vitamin B complex)
3. Walking through downtown to the bus stop on my way to work
4. Cleaning the kitchen while making tea
5. Reading late at night
6. Doing crossword puzzles and reading the funnies in the paper every day
7. And even, being at work and feeling productive


Me: "So..."
Her: "Yeah."
Me: "How's things?"
Her: "Oh, you know."
Me: "Mmmm. Hmm. Say, did you hear about (whatever)?"
Her: "Yeah."
Me: "Yeah. Crazy, huh?"
Her: Silence
Me: "Anyway........... Yes Sir! What can I get for you? (A customer! Thank God!)
I'm not dull! I'm sharp as f---!






On a side note here, when I'm on vacation I like to keep going, and take in as much of the area as I can, while a lot of people I know like to sit and relax the whole vacation. I always figure if I want to sit around I can do that at home. But then again at home I don't have the need to have to answer the phone, I will get back to whoever is calling later, which helps me to relax when I am at home. Maybe some people need to go on vacation to relax.
I consider my home my sanctuary.
I consider my home my sanctuary.
Oh man, when I'm on vacation I'm a whole different person. It really confused sweeter when on our first morning in Hawaii I got up to go running at 5 am. You're going where?
I wake up early and I have all sorts of energy. But I will channel that energy into sitting in a chair and reading 300 pages in an hour, if I want.
Maybe not that fast. I might be lying.
I wake up early and I have all sorts of energy. But I will channel that energy into sitting in a chair and reading 300 pages in an hour, if I want.
Maybe not that fast. I might be lying.
Leslie wrote: "When I have to work the next day, I try to go to bed by 10, and my idea of fun is the Border's Cafe with my journal and my book I'm writing. I read every night before I go to sleep. I almost neve..."
Wow. That doesn't match my mental image of "church" at all.
Wow. That doesn't match my mental image of "church" at all.


Here's what makes me boring to other people: I don't want to talk on the phone. Ever. I don't want to "catch up."



Am I the only one who doesn't answer the phone?


I don't answer the phone if I don't recognize the number on my caller ID. Less than ten people have my cell phone number and only one of those is someone I work with.

Oh, and this will sound bitchy, but people who leave long phone messages...like four or five minutes long...why why why why?

I love, love, love text messaging.
My best four friends from high school talk to each other all the time--I'm the odd one out. Whenever we hang out, they just all focus on catching up with me, though, so it works! I hate talking on the phone!


Seriously I thought it was just me, now it seems there is a whole subculture, Yay!

In answer to the original question, I am dull because I think I'm too weird for people to like. Therefore, I stick with books, TV, drinking green tea. That is, if I can make myself get out of bed in the morning. I only go out once a week to buy groceries.
I enjoy watering my plants, I hate taking pills or tablets (really, really hate it, I have a pill gag reflex), loathe cleaning, hate talking on the phone. I almost always let it go to voicemail. I would 1000% rather get a text than a phonecall.

I hate talking on the phone unless it is someone who makes me laugh and is entertaining or I have something to tell them. Otherwise, just text me. I avoid most phone calls until I am ready to talk. On my terms, bitches.
I love looking at seed catalogs. LOVE IT. I will work a seed catalog, dog ear it, repeatedly show my husband this plant or that one, make lists to buy and daydream of gardens I don't have.
I like some talk radio but it's hard to listen to because there are so many ads. I occasionally (maybe every 3-4 weeks or so) will listen to Rush Limbaugh just to see what he's ranting about.
I've discovered a pretty good cure for insomnia is podcasts. If I have a podcast going into one ear I can usually drift off to sleep within 20 minutes.
I've discovered a pretty good cure for insomnia is podcasts. If I have a podcast going into one ear I can usually drift off to sleep within 20 minutes.


I love just hanging around the house listening to music, reading, cuddling the dogs and reading :-)

I think Phil and Jonathan were talking about this the other day ... I don't remember which thread they were in, but feel free to start one up in the music or TV sections!


Of course you can never go wrong with Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes or The Shadow (a little hokier than the others). "It's hypnotic power."
I enjoy the dull routine of...
1. Reading the paper and eating the same thing for breakfast (oatmeal, yogurt, banana) every day
2. Taking my vitamins
3. Watering plants at work
4. Cleaning the house
5. Reading late at night
6. Sitting on the steps to my back porch
7. Listening to winter
And probably lots of others. All you "go out all the time" people, fie on you! You'd wear me out and bore me! Sure, I like to go out sometimes, but most nights I'd be begging you to drop me off by 9PM or faking sick to go home early! Keep your agitated wildness, I'm proud to be (sometimes, quite often, even) dull!
And...you?