Interpersonal, good new music discovery

[flexagon]

After acro class, the sweet visiting girl I had worked with says she'll friend me on Facebook. I'm very interpersonal, she says, so I like to keep my contacts up to date.

Interpersonal. I like that. If only it described me, I'd totally steal that phrase for later use. :-)


Also, music alert. If you like Tori Amos, you apparently need to check out Charlotte Martin. I listened to her album Test-Drive Songs today, and it ROCKED. Here's the first song from the album -- seriously, take the 3 minutes.

I am not your pretty thing, I am not your pretty thing,
I am not your pretty thing, or seventeen or prom queen anymore.

Comments

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

I've never heard "interpersonal" used to describe a person; it's nearly always used to describe relationships or skills. I'm trying to wrap my brain around what she meant. Social?

[flexagon]

Yes, I hadn't heard it used that way before either. I think it's technically incorrect usage of the term, but in a way that's evocative and interesting. I took it to mean that not only is she social, but she feels her identity is wrapped up in (or largely defined by) the spaces or relationships that exist between herself and other people.

It's possibly like the difference between smoking a cigarette and being a smoker... doing social things or having interpersonal relationships versus being interpersonal oneself.

Of course, maybe she just meant "oriented toward the interpersonal aspects of life", or maybe I'm spending way too much time analyzing what was, after all, just one sentence. But sometimes maybe it's okay to look for poetry in random places, too. :-)