Kermit-waves to Cash!
I need to be around the humans sometimes, though--the grocery store usually does it for me. I can reach high things on shelves for little old ladies and talk about the weather with the cashier and then go home.
For a long time, the social highlight of the week for me was going to the library. If I was up to it, I could have all kinds of conversation with the librarians. If I wasn't, well, just sticking to the basics, and being enough of a regular that the smile of recognition was involved in the pleasantries was enough for me to feel human.
Face it, folks. We are all a bunch of internet geeks. We are some of the shiniest, foamiest internet geeks on the planet, but we are still internet geeks. Introverted is just the beginning of that. Personally, I'm relieved and pleasantly surprised that Daniel and I manage to talk out loud to each other most of the time. I was somewhat concerned when I moved in here, that we would end up IMing each other from one side of the room to the other. Yeah, ok. We do IM each other. But that's just for the fun of it.
I think this is why we NEED Buffista Island. There could be as much or as little F2F action as each individual needs at the moment. And for those who are true hermits, it would just be great to be able to know they are there. Although I do imagine that Town Meetings would be a little more like herding cats, and a lot less like Star's Hollow.