It's time again for some reflection. I just gave a campus tour to one of our visiting scholars. Actually she's a candidate for an open position in the English Department. She's a smart women--she's written multitudes beyond me--but I couldn't stand her facade. She was obsequious almost the entire time with absolutely no need to be. I don't choose the professors here--have no say in it what-so-ever. But what bothered me the most is that I am not a negative person, yet she kept making me feel like I was being negative. Here's how it would happen: I would be saying something positive about an aspect of the campus, she would ask a probing question, I would respond with positivity, she would ask a personal question, I would tell her what I could, she would boost up what I said in some obnoxious way forcing me to either boast about myself or be humble, I would choose comedy and put myself down in an amusing way and, instead of laughing, she would rebut my joke. Oh.. that's what it was. She had no sense of humor. Ugh... how do these people exist on a daily basis without laughing? I mean, look around. This shit is funny! Maybe my preferred humor is too dark or snarky. Maybe people like to keep it light. How do you even do that?
Damn. I hoped to write this and answer some of my questions, not discover more.
What is the major difference between light and dark humor? And the real question: Is light humor even funny? or does it just produce the laughter equivalent to a golf clap?
I hope this woman was just nervous. If she gets hired, I hope to find out that instead of a golf clapper she's really an Arsenio Hall fist-pumper.
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