[Godslayer Jillian]

1. Do you find it common for strangers to exchange greetings (anything from a simple good morning to making conversation? If not why do you thing this is?) Very uncommon. I'm the one that makes eye contact with other people when they look at me, smile to them, and they generally smile back. People never get into conversations with other people, sometimes because they don't think of engaging a conversation with someone outside of their known social circles, but mostly it's because people know in these times if they were to engage in conversation with the stranger, the stranger would be annoyed rather than happy to meet someone new.

2. How did you meet your current best friend?School. French class.

3. Have you ever had a conversation with a complete stranger? If so did you exchange any contact information and keep in touch? She talked to me first. I was reading an anthology on Existentialism by Walter Kauffman outside of Mc Donalds waiting for my friend to end her shift, a girl was sitting next to me, I felt her gaze, looked at her, and said she was curious of what I was reading, I told her, she was amazed I was interested in philosophy at 18, and recommended me to read Camus. We didn't exchange contact information.

4. When you step into a classroom for the first time how do you greet the other students? I'm generally reading a book, but say hi if I see them, and merrily close my book if they have something they want to talk about, but they're the ones that have to open the conversation.

5. When you step into a classroom for the first time how do you greet the teacher/professor? I generally don't. I just keep quiet until I feel I have something to say, at which time I don't keep it to myself.

6. When you are in close proximity to stranger (such as an elevator, bus, waiting room, etc.) how do you act towards them? Again, generally I'm just reading a book. I engage in conversation only if I have something relevant to say to them or they are the ones that make the first move.

7. When you are in the same situation accompanied by one person that you know do you act differently? Even with friends sometimes I just keep reading unless I have something to tell them. The only reason it's easier for me to talk to known people rather than strangers is because as I've talked to them before, there's more relevant things to say, or they would understand what I tell them when to a stranger I would have to explain it from the beginning.