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I feel very silly admitting this, given the fact that most people on my friends list could probably speak to a room of people blind-folded and naked after about ten cups of coffee (in fact, please raise your hand if you've done exactly that), but I finally joined Toastmasters and gave my first speech today! I'm unreasonably excited, since struggling with this stupid public speaking phobia has been draining energy and preventing me from doing all sorts of things that I might have tried otherwise for at least ten years. Not only did it go extremely well, but I'm actually looking forward to the next speech. Yay! It's very, very surreal to think of being me and not being terrified to speak in front of more than about five people. I would say that I regret not having done this sooner, but at least all of the years of building up more and more levels of terror just make the whole process of dealing with it all the more exciting now.