I am mostly extroverted, until I'm not, which can happen quite quickly. Which is what I think happened to me in SF. I think my brain was like, "Foamy! Love! People who are foamy that we love! Talktalktalktalktalktalk Happpy! Happy! loudloudloudLOUDER LOUD! LOVE! TALK! CHAT CHAT CHAT CHAT! HAPPY! HAPPPY!SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! OVERLOAD OVERLOAD! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! HORMONES ABOUT TO RELEASE! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! TEAR DAM BREECHED! FREAKOUT FREAKOUT! Waaaaaiiiittt...what is this?....Oooohhhh...hellllooo Xxxxaaannaaxx...heeeelllllooo vodka tonic.....Fooooamy! Loooove! Chaaaattt! Peeooppplleee... people who need people.....Haaaappppyyy!!"

I've learned since then (cause it happened again at a Con in Michigan) that I need to rest my brain and take breathers. Hide for a bit, smoke, read, sew, watch TV, whatever. The hour and a half I took between HOTR and Prom was much needed. Put on my nightgown, watched comfort tv, chilled. It was great.

I can be extroverted if I have something to do, some reason for being there. Otherwise, while I like being around people, I don't know how to interact.

Consider how many times I brought the kids to various meet-ups (before K-Bug decided she LIKED coming and hanging with y'all). I had to be "mom" and could hide any social awkwardness in the need to be "mom". Or when I'm organizing something...then I'm cool.

Moving has made it harder - other than the few people I work with, I haven't met anyone NEW here. If I hadn't known Nicole already, I wouldn't have any outside-of-work friends.

CJ starts school on Monday, so I'll probably try to get involved in PTA so I can meet some folks while having that critical "reason for being there".

On the ground in Dallas. I'm about to pay $50 to smoke a cigarette in the Admiral's club, so I don't have to exit security (which I don't have time to do). In a few more hours, I will be home.

A flies out to Texas this morning, and will be gone for a week, so I'll have time to start packing up my half of our life, and move temporarily into the spare room, until I can find a new place.

The annoying thing about a 7AM telecon is that I told myself I could go back to bed after (I don't have anything else going on until afternoon) but now I feel somewhat awake. Also, I was having freakish nightmares about a tornado (!?) and a hellish weird retirement/layoff party thing (I wasn't going, someone else was? And they were leaving me this weird awkward tshirt wiht an individual and yet generic poem on it? And I wanted to stabbinate them?)

And I also feel intensely panicked by long durations of what I call "OPS" which means "other peoples' schedule".

Heh. I just get ANNOYED. And want to herd cats. With a whip.

But then, I LIKE large groups of people. I am very happy to have spent the weekend with huge numbers of people. And when I contemplate explaining to a therapist that "no, really, see, my upcoming weekend plans of "Go dancing Friday night, but go home directly after dancing, be touristy with exboss and her husband in town, go out with friends Saturday night, probably don't see girl I'm seeing because she's moving", that's like, LOW SOCIAL for me!!"....well....

But I mean, small groups are key. Large groups are hard to deal with, just logistics-wise. You can really only talk to a few people at once anyway.

Then again, I HAVE had a friend staying on my couch for the past month. OTOH, I've been out of town on and off for several of those weeks.

The only issue is when I am hanging out with someone who doesn't understand that I need to check the internets and see what is going on there. Because I AM an addict.

t reading all other comments from buffistas.

So, uh, how DID I end up with you introverted people anyway? Huh.

So, uh, how DID I end up with you introverted people anyway? Huh.

Because we need someone like you to pull us in to conversations. And, we rock.

{{{Sean}}} Just because I know this afternoon will be hard.

Friday morning vote for who is worse - Comcast or Verizon?

Comcast is giving a Wii to new subscribers, which is cooler than Verizon's offer of a TV. But I'm busy hating Cox.

I'm also busy doing nothing, when I have a ton of stuff to do. My boss had me come in to his office (which is in a different building...in fact, in a different city) for a meeting this morning to discuss whether or not I can telecommute. So I left the plumber at home and drove in, thinking I'd go to my office right after.

He's now pushed our meeting back twice, so I've been sitting here for an hour. At this rate I'll have to go home and pay the plumber before going to my office.

And his whole reason for not wanting me to telecommute is that he doesn't like me being away from my office.

Just caught up and now I have to go to the doctor for my diabetes update. (Get the tires kicked, check the fluids, etc)

I should mention that I had my six-months-late yearly review Wednesday.

I got an 8.5% raise.

Retroactive to my hiring date anniversary.

Feb 16.

heh.

Congratulations, Daniel! That's great news.

{{{Sean}}} ~ma for you that you can find a new place soon.

Me? Extrovert. I still hate big crowds (thoguh the F2Fs never bothered me).

Daniel, that's awesome! It's nice to see someone else appreciating your excellence.