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Confidentiality Issues

Watching the episode “Data’s Day” of Star Trek: The Next Generation, i came to a realization about my problems socializing with others. In this episode, Data documents his attempts at understanding human emotions in response to a researcher’s query.

Data has serious problems interpreting how people will react to behaviour… he cannot master irony. This led me to the realization that he would have the same sort of problem determining the confidentiality of a person’s conversation. As ultimate disclosure girl, i too have this problem. Maybe i am part android. LOL.

Another five pages of draft is due tomorrow. All i want to do is drink sangria and smoke cigarettes while chatting on a terrace. LOL.

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Written by Featherina

June 27th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

Posted in Relationships

Tagged with social skills, Star Trek, TV

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I was once a history graduate student at the University of Toronto; my research focused on the prehumanists; i completed my final paper in July 2008 and am now taking a year off. When i have collected the necessary funds through gainful employment, i will be embarking on a world voyage - a voyage of self-discovery prompted by hours sitting in airports and talking to complete strangers. I need to decide if i wish to attempt a PhD. My main interests include but are not limited to latin, italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym with my mother, eating green apple-caramel lollipops and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. i like to pretend this blog contains thoughts worth sharing with the few friends who take the trouble to read it - but i know that is a delusion. These are mostly journal entries. Occasionally i post something more 'creative' in the form of a response to an editorial, a scholastic insight or a thought-experiment. oh yeah, my name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984.