There is a ratio of interactivity and doing-thingsness at which I'm perfectly functional!
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My usual Doing Stuff threshold is approximately eight people and a pub. Or three people and a martini bar. I like to be able to talk to the other end of the table.
I will submit to a dance bar on special occasions or holidays, and house parties where I know at least a third of the people.
Field/shopping trips are best done with one or two other people. Then I don't get impatient to move along.
In short, I feel you. Happily, my BFF is also a hermit. :D
Those guidelines are PERFECT. I would like to print them onto cards to hand out to all my unwitting extroverts.
It can be great having a friend who does all the outgoing stuff so I don't have to. Not so much when you're trapped with them for four days, it turns out. *fist bump of hermity solidarity*
But it was SO AWESOME to see you and I feel like a jerk for not having got to see MORE of you, aaaaaaaah WHY IS THERE NOT MORE TIME. But seriously, ALL THE HUGGING.
UGH, I KNOW. I found it bizarrely comforting how people kept going OMG I NEED ALL HUMANS TO STOP BEING AROUND ME NOW and hiding in their rooms for a bit because it meant I was truly among my kind. But at the same time: NOOOOO, THEN I DON'T GET TO SEE EVERYONE AS MUCH AS I WOULD LIKE TO. It was still lovely to sit next to you in panels at the very least. *HUGS*
And yeah, OUR PEOPLE. Are a hermitty people. heh. but yes, it super was! Hopefully next time we can do more mixy floating room parties and not get shut down by the Man so early!
SO MANY GOOD THINGS IN ONE POST. I AM VERY HAPPY TO HAVE LIVED IT ALL.
It sounds so appealing when you describe it as MOAR TORTURE, how could I possibly resist? (And now I have written evidence that you're VOLUNTEERING to spend time with me. I will point to this when you complain about what a horrible person I am. YOU CHOSE YOUR OWN FATE. YOU WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.)
SUPERPOWERS is my story and I'm sticking with it. And Reverse Magneto is NOT what I will be calling it because nothing will convince me that that isn't a bizarre and potentially traumatic sex position.
That police officer was like an answer to my prayers is the saddest part.
DON'T TEMPT ME, KANZ. I COULD STILL GET TICKETS FOR ONE OF SOUTHWEST'S DEATH PLANES AND MAKE IT THERE IN THREE HOURS. IF I SURVIVED.
HEE, I just choked *on air* reading your Reverse Magneto theory.
SUN ROOFS FOR PLANES ARE THE HOT, NEW THING.
...JFC, I don't know how tempting this really is - I found one reasonably priced ticket for the show, but it's on ebay and bidding doesn't end until 4/14. And whoa, who the hell would pay $650 for a general admission show? O___O
Totally for the best. Three weekends in a row was a terrible plan, I knew this, and it wouldn't have stopped me even a little. But $650? For that much money I'd better be seated directly on the stage with lackeys dedicated solely to bringing me cool drinks.
Did you say thank you to the nice police officer? Also? Tell the truth. Did you sneak off to the bathroom and call it in?
Being social is HARD. I love archery because you don't have to come up with topics of conversation, you can just talk about archery. And you have PROPS. Handy.
I probably would have if Friend hadn't been right there, ngl. We... were not sure that the place had a bathroom? (It's a SERIOUS fixer-upper.) But that thought had also occurred to me. My favorite part was how the homeowner blamed all of us sitting around on the front porch for the noise complaint instead of the fucking BAND he had inside. Clearly we were the problem and it wasn't the drums or amps at all.
YES, THAT. I am FINE if I have a topic to work with, but just throwing me to the wolves like that? Uncool.
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My usual Doing Stuff threshold is approximately eight people and a pub. Or three people and a martini bar. I like to be able to talk to the other end of the table.
I will submit to a dance bar on special occasions or holidays, and house parties where I know at least a third of the people.
Field/shopping trips are best done with one or two other people. Then I don't get impatient to move along.
In short, I feel you. Happily, my BFF is also a hermit. :D
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It can be great having a friend who does all the outgoing stuff so I don't have to. Not so much when you're trapped with them for four days, it turns out. *fist bump of hermity solidarity*
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But it was SO AWESOME to see you and I feel like a jerk for not having got to see MORE of you, aaaaaaaah WHY IS THERE NOT MORE TIME. But seriously, ALL THE HUGGING.
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UGH, I KNOW. I found it bizarrely comforting how people kept going OMG I NEED ALL HUMANS TO STOP BEING AROUND ME NOW and hiding in their rooms for a bit because it meant I was truly among my kind. But at the same time: NOOOOO, THEN I DON'T GET TO SEE EVERYONE AS MUCH AS I WOULD LIKE TO. It was still lovely to sit next to you in panels at the very least. *HUGS*
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And yeah, OUR PEOPLE. Are a hermitty people. heh. but yes, it super was! Hopefully next time we can do more mixy floating room parties and not get shut down by the Man so early!
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It sounds so appealing when you describe it as MOAR TORTURE, how could I possibly resist? (And now I have written evidence that you're VOLUNTEERING to spend time with me. I will point to this when you complain about what a horrible person I am. YOU CHOSE YOUR OWN FATE. YOU WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.)
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OOH, OOH! I HAVE A GUESS! Stupid, evil doors... I bet there's someone locked out of that room even as I type.
The kind of misery that didn't end until the cops showed up to tell the homeowner to shut it down
Oh man /o\/o\/o\
the 20 hour round trip MCR option is still open, JUST SAYIN' <.<
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That police officer was like an answer to my prayers is the saddest part.
DON'T TEMPT ME, KANZ. I COULD STILL GET TICKETS FOR ONE OF SOUTHWEST'S DEATH PLANES AND MAKE IT THERE IN THREE HOURS. IF I SURVIVED.
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SUN ROOFS FOR PLANES ARE THE HOT, NEW THING.
...JFC, I don't know how tempting this really is - I found one reasonably priced ticket for the show, but it's on ebay and bidding doesn't end until 4/14. And whoa, who the hell would pay $650 for a general admission show? O___O
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Being social is HARD. I love archery because you don't have to come up with topics of conversation, you can just talk about archery. And you have PROPS. Handy.
*smishes you*
*makes regular complaint about distance*
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YES, THAT. I am FINE if I have a topic to work with, but just throwing me to the wolves like that? Uncool.
Stupid distance. *kicks it*
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