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Goudron
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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Excoriating Cenobites
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My colleague and mentor at work had this set as his out of office reply yesterday morning:
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I will be out of the office the morning of Friday December 16, 2011, returning to the office for the afternoon that day. In case of urgency, you can try my cell phone: (), which also has voice mail. But I will have limited real time phone response capability due to auto travel (driving).
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I was glad he clarified he was driving and not using a Star Trek transporter or something else. Later that day, he responded to my meeting invite, the title of which included the product name of what I work with. In his acceptance to the invite, he noted that the product name was not recognized by the spellchecker. The two suggested words were "Excoriate" and "Cenobite."
He has a penchant for excruciating details, so he noted he had to look up the definition of both words, and shared them. Reading the definitions and doing some further research made me realize job cuts and reorganizations of the past few years have made me "like a token Buddhist Bhikku at a Christian monastery" which I shared with him in a reply.
Tonight, I saw a Facebook update from a high school friend saying RIP to a mutual friend, Bill, from our graduating class. I haven't seen either friend in 20 years, but Bill was a raunchy, excessiveley happy character that everyone got along with despite his insensitivity to almost everything. I noticed he wished someone a happy birthday the other day, so wtf happened between then and now? I'm so far removed from that part of my life, I haven't inquired about what exactly happened yet because frankly I feel like an alien to that world. I'll meditate on that awhile.
Exquisite words, research and thought (like a really good book) can lead to an emotional response, but a single statement almost devoid of detail can cause a change that greatly dwarfs it. Emotional responses are the product of chemical changes, right? Can our brains be responsible for putting so much weight on something so small and little weight on something relatively more substantial? Maybe there's something else at play.
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