I’ve been trying to go to different sites and catch up on commenting on other sites. There are many posts on other sites that I want to respond to, and now is a good time to do that. I sprayed my place with a smoke can/bomb [the one to kill the bugs, not sure what the technical name is] earlier this morning, so I have to spend time outside for a few hours unless I want to train my body to become invulnerable to bug spray the hard way by being intoxicated with it.

I’m at a lab right now, a lab with 150 computers. When I came here a few hours ago, I was the only one using the computers. Thus, I had the luxury of walking around for a few seconds, trying to decide where the best place to sit was. I found a place that was really nice, and away from the crowd at the front desk [the front desk has a line for people to sign in and out, and it always has the staff sitting there even if there are no people in the lab].

After about an hour, a few students came in. They looked at me and come and sit next to me. Maybe they thought I was using the best computers in the lab. After they left, a guy came in and walked around for a few seconds looking at each table, and then decided to sit on my table. Then a girl and a guy came in, and they sat right next to me [one on the left and other one on the right]. After about half an hour, they all left and I was left with my privacy. Then another group of students came in, and they walked straight to the computers on my table and sat around me. The person on my right is even glancing at my monitor screen every few seconds. “IF YOU ARE READING WHAT I’M TYPING, YOU’RE IN BIG TROUBLE.” That’s the only line I want him to glance at and understand.

That got me into thinking; why won’t all these people sit somewhere else? “Why are you all sitting around me? Is the lab too scary for you to be in, or do you like the comfort of knowing that another human being is within your arm’s reach?“, I think to myself. Whether it’s the basic human instinct to be close to other humans, or the attraction to the dark red t-shirt I’m wearing, it still feels weird and interesting. You can see anthropology and psychology into play everywhere, even in a lab where people sit close to other human beings. Human beings need to be fed and need to reproduce genetically, but they also need to be nurtured and need to feel safe. So whether one is a gangster or a very cute girl, unconsciously we all have many principles that are shared by everyone/ A few people from the group just left, though I’m sure they’ll be replaced by other people who will want to sit at my table or in my lap even.

Have you ever encountered a similar thing? The person on my right is still stealing glances at my monitor. Now I have to start glancing at his monitor now to see his reaction. Till next time, happy glancing everyone!