feeling odd

[katiebearnm]

I feel like I often feel at the end of a day when I have a Friday off, but the strange thing is that I went to work today.  I left a couple hours early since I know in advance that I'll be in on my next day off for a few hours in the afternoon.  I came home, started the laundry, walked around the neighborhood and got some errands done, finished the

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[pixie_of_spite]

So, instead, I'll go dancing and try to pull myself out, try to enjoy the company and to melt into the music, continuing my ongoing battle to be a little more extroverted. Some days it's easier to tell that, at best, I'm only fighting a holding action in that battle.

Yes.

I spent thursday working at home and needed a break around 2 or three just to interrupt being stuck inside my head. So I went and found my housemate at the library and chatted for a while. For me, the most valuable people in the world are the ones I like/want to hang out with even when I don't generally want to see people. If I could date one such person, I'd be set. :/

So, I guess I can have too much of my own thoughts (esp if all I'm doing is research all day) and seek out company. I find dealing a lot with public places (shopping, e.g.) makes me want to hide from the world and just sit and work in front of soft lamplight at my living room table.

[ssmegss]

me too. I have been so worn down by parental stuff lately that it is a real battle just to keep sliding much farther into a well of introversion. Just the sparse contact I have with people at work is about what I can do without a lot of effort.
I think music is my activity that helps in this battle. Playing in orchestra helps me pull myself out a bit.

I'd love to go find a quiet place out in nature and meditate for a while.
yep. I had a hard time living in Appleton because it was hard to find nature - and that was a little sleepy town! It would be very hard for me to live somewhere that was always reeeeally bustling.

If I could date one such person, I'd be set.
Hmmm. I used to think so, but now I'm married to one and it means that people have to almost physically remove me from his presence when I'm feeling low energy. It has made me a real homebody. :/

[pixie_of_spite]

Hmmm. I used to think so, but now I'm married to one and it means that people have to almost physically remove me from his presence when I'm feeling low energy. It has made me a real homebody. :/

I'm a homebody now, mostly. Figure it wouldn't be that different, just adding the benefits of having another person around.

[ssmegss]

it's just weird to go from a non-homebody to a homebody; an adjustment I think I haven't made well.

huh, I guess you would be set then! too bad finding one such person is the hard part (but so is keeping them... It's all hard!)