Overachievers

Overachievers annoy me. I just worked this out. I've always had this bedgrudging feeling towards them and I feel a slight animosity towards them. It's not the ones who are at the top of their fields, I mean, how many top ranking scientists, historians, philosophers and so forth that are the best in their field but lack either social graces or table manners?

No, the kind of overachievers that annoy me are the ones who are really nice, really good-looking, have perfect manners and are good at everything they put their hand at doing. And you can't even really gossip or have a good old catty chat about them because they are so nice to everyone. Really, how can someone be such perfection around here? They must have some flaws but if they do, they are so well hidden that I'm hard-pressed to find them. And trust me, I would be looking for them.

In a way, I envy them because I would like to be like that. Who wouldn't? I mean, if you could be good at anything and everything that you wanted, wouldn't you want it to be so?

But then again, I feel sad for them. Human life is all about enjoying your flaws. You might not believe me but don't you feel better about yourself when you know that you are better than someone else at something? It doesn't matter what it is, just something. You like commiserating with others, whether with a cup of hot chocolate, or a really lip-smackingly gorgeous glass of wine, or two or three. But I digress. We enjoy the company that misery provides and it makes us have a common bond because it doesn't matter that we're not good at, we have it in common.

There was a point to this somewhere but I've lost my train of thought now so it's all over.

News on me.

Went to 2 parties this weekend, was supposed to be three but am so exhausted that have decided that two is enough.That and the fact that I slept away most of Saturday should be an indication to slow down and not do anything but nevermind. St Cross Halloween bop on Friday which I didn't really want to go but Annie was working and I thought it would be fun to see what the new students were like. It wasn't all as much fun but it could be due to the fact that I didn't really know anyone and I wasn't in the mood for socialising. Tonight, went for dinner at JM's new place. His place is gorgeous. The rooms are massive and we had dinner in a proper dining room. It's a converted mansion so very nice. Just a bit far out from town center and I suppose the rooms would be a bit cold as the house was so old and would be hard to heat.

Tried to get as much done as possible for the abstract so I can go to the big fly meeting, and it seems to be going ok except just have to get the references downloaded and the pictures pulled off the other computer. Not quite sure what to do about that because I don't really need to include the pics but if I am going to do the statistical analysis I should look at all the pics again. I should just pull it into my laptop then do the backups. Sigh, I hate going away. Especially when I have things to do. But at least it should be nice to go home and see family and EAT. I cannot wait to be eating all the foods again..mmmmm...

And now to end my procrastination for the evening, I might go and do what I planned and finish all the work before tomorrow. Still need to pack and think of a present for dad but how hard can it be? Yeah, right.