(Be sure and read the previous blog on That 70's Show to understand what I'm talking about here)
Yesterday afternoon my wife sat down to check her emails – a fairly normal, routine activity. A couple messages regarding business, one from a committee she's a member of, one from a friend asking for advice, and some other random junk mail...
Currently, we share a desk and have the great pleasure of sitting next to each other while working on our computers. It makes instant messaging absolutely pointless, because we can see what the other is typing before they've even sent the message. And yes, we continue to IM anyway.
It's normal practice for Erin to speak her thoughts out loud, and she often caries a dialogue with herself as she works (or maybe she's talking to me). This was no different. She commented on the emails she received, noting that she wasn't sure how to respond to her friend's request for advice. Ironically enough, her friend was asking for boy advice. I continued working and noticed as she began responding to one of her business emails. A couple minutes go by as she continues the email, and suddenly Erin blurts out, "I just don't know what to tell her to do!" I look over to see what she's working on so that I know what we're talking about. Sure enough, she's half way through her business email.
"What are you talking about?"
"I don't know what to tell her about this boy!"
She had spent almost five minutes typing an email regarding a business matter, all the while contemplating what her friend should do regarding this issue. Was this matter deep? No, not necessarily... Emotional? I don't think so... Romantic? Yep! That's the one.
That's one first hand example. Any more? Any thoughts?
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Hmm, I personally have quite often been doing one thing and thinking about something completely different. Maybe women are just better equipped to multi-task? Or maybe its not gender specific at all and men do this just as much as women do? Or maybe women are more emotional and this allows them to physically be doing one thing while their mind is still reeling about something else. I am not sure that this is specific to only romantic things though, I think it is more just emotional...Erin was emotionally involved with her friends dilemma, which led her to think about it more, I am not sure that men get as emotionally involved with things. Whether its relationship problems or something completely different, I think women tend to be more emotional about everything, if we were not, it would be easier for us to do a task and put that problem or whatever aside and then think about the issue afterwards..
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