January 29, 2005 - A few situations today got me thinking that my personality doesn't seem to match up with other people often. I received an email to 'the group'. The group is all the people from T. Crookham and the Accidentals, plus a few more people. Laurie threw out the comment that I make up statistics often. I can't even think of one time when I made up a statistic. I also make sure that I qualify that it is an approximation whenever I do not know exactly, and I am usually the first to admit when I am wrong...but it seems that other people must perceive me as someone who makes up statistics. Another situation today was with my cousin Chris. He was under the influence of alcohol when he said it, but still, when we were talking about his stocks and IRA account at a bar, he cut into our conversation and said to Kavia that he would rather be talking about something else. That's fine, except he could have said it to me, or not pretended like I wasn't there when he said it to Kavia. In the same way that Laurie made her comment in front of everyone else, it was a direct attack at me, and one that I took personally. People may not agree with me or like what I like, but they could be more tactful in the way they put me down.