… and I’m socially awkward. While this is probably no surprise to any of you, I still felt the need to say it.
Unless I’m working, I tend to shrink in social situations where I don’t know people. What can I say, I’m introverted.
I think I always have been. I don’t really ever remember going into a social situation and “working” the room, as it were. If I’m working, networking or what have you, I’m on. I can work it. I’ll show up with a pocket full of my own business cards and leave with a pocket full of other people’s. I don’t understand it.
Put me in a social situation where I’m there to meet people for purposes other than work, I am a social retard. My palms get sweaty, my throat gets dry and I can only manage a weak, “Hi,” and a grin that says, “IDK WTH I’m doing here.”
So, to not deal with that, or me, I spend a lot of time alone – at home. Now, I know this is the opposite of what I should be doing, but if I went out all the time, you people wouldn’t be getting these awesome gems of wisdom and droppings from my (over)active imagination. So, which would you rather have? 
So, given the pending new year, all full of its promise and newness, I resolve to be more social – in public, not just online. Because we all know, online, I’m a freaking rock star! (In my own head.)
So, who’s with me? You people gonna be more social too or am I the only social retard in this bunch? o_O
