Flair

This morning I was rummaging through Facebook and chatting with people, when I received a notification. My friend Bunmi sent me a Piece of Flair. Flair is a Facebook application that I actually like. Basically it is a way for friends to send little button looking memos from one person to another. I have been given several pieces of flair, most of them given to me by Bunmi who always seems to find ones that are completely applicable to our group of friends or myself. Bunmi sent me two today. They both gave me a giggle, but one was just so true that I could not resist sharing it.

The flair read, “Warning: may change topics mid-sentence.” I find that when I am writing or chatting online I don’t change subjects in mid-sentence. However, when I am in an oral conversation I am so easily distracted that I can be talking about snow peas and switch to the subject of mud pies. This is an everyday occurrence. Random is a good adjective that can describe me. In fact, Bunmi keeps a “quote book” and I had a streak of ten quotes in it, before someone broke my record. I love this, because I never think about what I am going to say until after it comes out of my mouth. With the help of the quote book I can look back and see all the good, crazy, random, and dumb things that come out of my mouth. This makes me wonder about how and where I think of or obtain the things I say. I definitely did not inherit this skill from a parent, or anyone in my family that I know of. If I did inherit this it must be from a great, great, great, great, great grandfather or something. Anyway, these random bursts of words lead to some fantastic inside jokes (which there are far to many in our small passé). Still, when I opened this piece of flair, I immediately thought about how I do change topics mid-sentence. This is just me, but I should probably work on keeping the same topic the whole sentence through before I go on formal job interviews. I think it would probably be a bad thing if I started answering a question about my strengths with “I am reliable” and ending it with “I want a pinecone.” Just a little thing I need to work on throughout my college career. It is going to be a pretty hilarious ride.