I'm sitting here, thinking. A dangerous thing for me sometimes. I'm thinking about conversations and the patterns they take. See, I just got off the phone with a guy that I haven't talked with in a long time. We started talking and looking back, I realized that I ended up doing a lot of the talking. I filled him in on a lot of the things going on in my life, what's happening with some of our mutual friends, and eventually we started talking a bit about his life. Then my battery died.

Then I was talking to someone else on IM and I noticed that I was the one directing the conversation, asking questions, and 'listenin' to his life. And our conversations tend to go that way. That's fine, 'cause that's the way our friendship is designed.

I'm about ready to go call another friend of mine and we'll probably have a good give and take conversation without too much of having to ask questions.

It's interesting how people communicate according to their personalities and what's going on in their lives. When I'm talking to someone, I am genuinely interested in what is going on in their lives, and I'll ask questions to find out. Others don't do that. I've noticed with a couple of guys that I try to hang out with, that I'll ask questions, they'll answer, and that'll be that. A real conversation is extremely hard in that position.

I think in a good conversation you have to have people who are willing to talk and listen equally. Not only listen, but pick up on clues in the conversation and ask questions based on that. That's how a two minute exchange can turn into a half hour conversation.

Anyway, those are the thoughts running through this exhausted head.