tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3038521152787820724..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: On not looking as intimidating as I shouldCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-77353807656024473192007-05-14T14:16:00.000-04:002007-05-14T14:16:00.000-04:00Oh Dr. Virago, you are too kind. But yes, I really...Oh Dr. Virago, you are too kind. But yes, I really *am* listening.Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-6885909890740398652007-05-14T13:51:00.000-04:002007-05-14T13:51:00.000-04:00On stares...In both Eileen's and Jeffrey's case, I...On stares...In both Eileen's and Jeffrey's case, I'd say they both have the "I'm listening stare" of a therapist. You know, the one that is simultaneously interested and invested in what you are saying, but that also encourages you to keep babbling and eventually say something you wouldn't otherwise say, for better or for worse. It's a neat trick and I need to learn it!Dr. Viragohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960384082670286328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-69280994415784500972007-05-14T13:29:00.000-04:002007-05-14T13:29:00.000-04:00I thought you'd have curly, dark hair, as it happe...I thought you'd have curly, dark hair, as it happens. And perhaps be slightly more robust-looking. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to say hello, though.Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-30446098235412733432007-05-14T10:55:00.000-04:002007-05-14T10:55:00.000-04:00But if you stop there, New Kid, I will remain immo...<I>But if you stop there, New Kid, I will remain immortalized here as a dwarf-like blondish redhead whose voice fails to boom!</I><BR/><BR/>Oh dear, whatever I say digs me deeper in a hole!<BR/><BR/>But I should probably add that you are not dwarf-like, and that a voice that fails to boom is usually a good thing (says the woman who is often rather loud). ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-59102178252434352002007-05-14T09:54:00.000-04:002007-05-14T09:54:00.000-04:00Heck - that's why I didn't go to the zoo - people ...Heck - that's why I didn't go to the zoo - people might not only see me but talk about my appearance too! <BR/><BR/>Here it is pretty much compulsory to place images on our departmental website - perhaps that is why I cultivate anonymity elsewhere on the WWW!!<BR/><BR/>FWIW you looked very charming (and animated) when I bumped into you last year.<BR/><BR/>50N50https://www.blogger.com/profile/02927387227571782287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-18084062290247559012007-05-14T09:47:00.000-04:002007-05-14T09:47:00.000-04:00"Dwarf-like?" No, "elvyssh" would be the operative..."Dwarf-like?" No, "elvyssh" would be the operative term for JCC. And I mean it in the best way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-35623552003582663252007-05-14T06:23:00.000-04:002007-05-14T06:23:00.000-04:00But if you stop there, New Kid, I will remain immo...But if you stop there, New Kid, I will remain immortalized here as a dwarf-like blondish redhead whose voice fails to boom!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-68845304416762843252007-05-13T22:31:00.000-04:002007-05-13T22:31:00.000-04:00Heh, I didn't overlap with you long enough to noti...Heh, I didn't overlap with you long enough to notice the penetrating stare, so I guess I have to reserve judgment about the intimidation factor.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure if this translates into intimidating to anyone else, but from the blog I pictured you as a very tall person with dark hair (strangely enough I always default-imagine people as having dark hair and am usually surprised if someone is blond or a redhead) and a big booming voice. Do not ask WHY I thought this, I can't answer - maybe it's just that you write, you know, polished academic prose (unlike myself), so I defaulted to authoritative professor image. IRL you looked much more approachable and seemed much more soft-spoken than I'd imagined.<BR/><BR/>And if I continue to try to explain I will probably start to look really truly weird, so I'll stop here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-23409192228266147542007-05-13T18:07:00.000-04:002007-05-13T18:07:00.000-04:00OK, so I take away from this discussion that I com...OK, so I take away from this discussion that I come across as either (1) a nerd or (2) intimidating (or perhaps even (3) an intimidating nerd) in my prose style. In person, however, I am ... well that is still unknown to me, just that I am not necessarily those things.<BR/><BR/>Except that I am intimidating in person as well, according to Liza, and stare too penetratingly.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-45326692953498008472007-05-13T14:15:00.000-04:002007-05-13T14:15:00.000-04:00Jeffrey, the consensus was that you didn't have a ...Jeffrey, the consensus was that you didn't have a nerdy look which people were expecting! I was once told at a conference in Cambridge that I was the kind of person scholars would cross the road to avoid. I did have pink dreadlocks and a generally dishevelled appearance at the time.Michael O'Rourkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03110210128389911666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-8508583797687464392007-05-13T11:28:00.000-04:002007-05-13T11:28:00.000-04:00re: I don't know if that is an insult or a complim...re: I don't know if that is an insult or a compliment to Alex!<BR/><BR/>Let's just say this -- if he has inhereted THE STARE I'm going to fall off the punt. Otherwise, good thing.Liza Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105726464955172469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-83767855220060502782007-05-13T09:20:00.000-04:002007-05-13T09:20:00.000-04:00Oh no--you noticed the intense staring thing I do....Oh no--you noticed the intense staring thing I do. Now I won't be able to catch certain persons off guard [haha].Eileen Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-58532826935657232412007-05-13T09:13:00.000-04:002007-05-13T09:13:00.000-04:00Well, I presume that in person you don't walk arou...Well, I presume that in person you don't walk around with your hand in front of your face! ;-)<BR/><BR/>I must say, I'm quite glad that (as far as I know) nobody talks about what I look like! Or maybe they do. Now I'm going to have to ask! Bah!Glaukôpishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11021360723399801160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-78039457446645823762007-05-13T08:48:00.000-04:002007-05-13T08:48:00.000-04:00Tiruncula: spiky is better than prickly ...Michael...Tiruncula: spiky is better than prickly ...<BR/><BR/>Michael: OK, you oblige me to ask (since it never even entered my mind that such could be the topic of any conversation): what was the consensus, before and after? I can take it, I have thick skin.<BR/><BR/>Liza: I think that Eileen and I share the propensity to stare at people until they are unnerved, usually attempting to glimpse their soul by looking through their eye's pupil. And yes, your defensive armor of notes was observed and silently mocked. I don't know if that is an insult or a compliment to Alex!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-41419359880884946102007-05-13T05:46:00.000-04:002007-05-13T05:46:00.000-04:00I think you look intimidating. Or at least, I did ...I think you look intimidating. Or at least, I did while at GW. It's the nerve-wrackingly still face, and THE (politely intense) STARE! You may have noticed I always came armed with notes to hide behind.<BR/><BR/>By the way, that ten-year-old about whom you wrote earlier looks so much like you it's scary. It's like you're related or something.Liza Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105726464955172469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-50455692521888870932007-05-12T22:15:00.000-04:002007-05-12T22:15:00.000-04:00At Leeds a couple of years ago people talked about...At Leeds a couple of years ago people talked about nothing else, before and after they had met him, about what JJC looked like.Michael O'Rourkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03110210128389911666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-35202334480583661282007-05-12T20:55:00.000-04:002007-05-12T20:55:00.000-04:00Hee! I learned that people expect me to be "spikie...Hee! I learned that people expect me to be "spikier". Perhaps this will inspire a new hairstyle, but then I'm about the least spiky person on the planet and don't think I could carry it off. Maybe I just need to make my blog persona rounder and fluffier.Tirunculahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16788199657297216288noreply@blogger.com