telephone calls

Just finished in my sad blog and I thought of something I like.

Telephone calls!
I prefer them over chat anyday.

One of the things I associate most closely with people is how they sound.
Not just how their voice sounds, but their speech mannerisms.

Over IMs and texts, that always gets distorted for me. One of my biggest problems with people is that they never sound the same IRL as they do over the internet. It is intensely frustrating to me; like I am talking to two different people. Some people (Duba) sound far more pompous than they do in person. Some people (Autumn) don't sound serious enough.
It is the saddest thing to me.
I like it when the meter matches, and the timbre, and who I picture when I talk over the internet and face-to-face.

(Don't get me wrong, there are a couple of people who match, ie Sam and Jerod, but it is very rare.)


So the telephone is the next best thing.

I like it because I can hear emotions more clearly than reading them, and I can sort of sense what the person is doing. I know Mitra is talking with her hands. I know my mom is driving. I know Sababa is reading.

and I like talking on the phone.
I can never get the meter right when I type.
I can never get the hesitation and the stutters in the right spot, if at all.
My hands never twitch, and I can't flail my arms around.
I don't shake my hair out of my face.
My voice doesn't get higher at the end of conversations.

Basically, all of my mannerisms are lost.



I mean, if I was reading this blog straight out, there would be slightly more emphasis here and there. Words would be stumbled over, and my punctuation would go to hell.
I'd drop the g at the end of ing words every so often, and there would be pauses where I'm trying to locate the perfect word for the occasion in my head.








So yeah, what you're reading right now doesn't sound like me.
To me, anyway.

So, ah, call me?
I am down for conversations whenever.