[SB] Sabbath Blessing

[Molly Wolf]

A friend blew me off last week. It's okay; it wasn't a long-standing 
friendship or one that I'd invested much in; it stung pretty badly for 
about a day and it still aches a little, but not much. I'll get over it. 
I'd managed to give her offence in something, and instead of telling me at 
the time, she waited and blew up at me. But she'd also taken a few things 
out of context, given them a quarter-twist, and then gotten angry not on 
because of what I'd done or said (or even thought), but on the basis of her 
own interpretation. I have a feeling this is a pattern she has.

I've done this myself and I've seen it done over and over again. It's a 
particularly easy pattern in cyberdiscourse. It's so tempting to fall into 
that pattern of pure insight that's really just