Recently, I've been assessing those around me based on their level of intelligence. I can't help it. It's something I do from time to time. Rather than being outright judgmental, I've developed my own system of judging people by how dim or bright they are using a bulb/light source analogy. You will now know what I'm referring to when I'm talking about a 2.5 v bulb. - A flickering 2.5 v bulb in a torch with almost dead batteries - You might come across these more often than not.
- A glow-in-the dark stick - Once it's used up, the glow dies.
- Fairy lights - Beautiful to look at but quite dim.
- Traffic light - Very fickle, usually dim particularly against direct sunlight.
- An LED on a keyring - Has moments of brightness only when it is absolutely necessary.
- iphone flashlight - Multi-tasking with average illumination.
- An Eveready torch - Brightness that keeps going and going.
- Fluorescent tube - Efficient, simple and very bright.
- Camera flash - Has the capacity to be highly intelligent that blinds people but may cause people to see red.
- A halogen spotlight - Intense concentration of brightness but requires lots of attention.
- The sun - Warm, natural, luminous and worshipped but may be too hot to handle and cause severe burns.
I consider myself to be somewhere between an iphone flashlight and 7-11 lighting.
Disclaimer: I make no apologies for those who find themselves fitting into one of my categories.
7 comments:
quite amusing waiz
I was born to be an LED keyring. Or possibly a fluoro; looking bright, but giving off no light whatsoever.
A fluoro highlighter, that is. Sigh. This is just like when I mess up an answering machine message and then leave fifty other messages explaining myself.
How you doing, anyway?
jaddlesworth: on my scale, either you are a camera flash or the sun.
I did consider the pen torch - useless on the top end but mighty on the other but decided to leave it out.
re: doing. I was in a teaching rut but now things have lightened up. I'm getting close to working at this establishment for almost 12 months and starting to get restless again. I need my head examine. would you believe i'm now writing lessons for hong kong's most popular karaoke company?
I think I'm a tiny, weak flashlight... in Alaska... in the summer... in a well lit convenience store.
In other words, some light to give, but in areas where no one needs it.
Pen torch made me giggle like a schoolgirl.
Re: stless (note my subversion of the form there), I was wondering if it was about time for the gypsy blood to kick in. I know I have the urge to flee, flee and not look back.
Tell us more of the karaoke.
brooke: that makes you a street lamp in the suburb of Whoop Whoop.
jaddlesworth: your subversion made me go heehee.
Q: Where and when?
Lesson one:
How to take a phone call politely if a customer books for a party of 7 and reception and registration.
I'm writing a lot of role plays. You know, I think I could moonlight as a scriptwriter.
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