to journey among friends old and new...

[lagilman]

and then, at blessed last, to come home. The cats, to show how much they missed me, broke my favorite mug. Oh well, it had a crack in it anyway. An excuse to buy a new one!

It was a lovely weekend, highly social and productive and entertaining and educational, and at some point I shall attempt to collect my scattered thoughts and put together some sort of trip report. For now, however, I need to sit and enjoy the silence of Not Being Social...






(I spent the first 30 years of my life trying to be an extrovert. It was an unhappy experiment.)

Comments

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

This sounds like a familiar process. I can do the con scene and be friendly and outgoing and even entertaining, but there's always a cost, and it takes time to recover afterward.

Glad you had a good time!

[lagilman]

yeah, the post-con crash is less physical exhaustion (although there's always that) and more mental/emotional wear from having to be On! and Social! Extroverts just don't grok that, at all (and I'm a functional extrovert, mostly... or I was, when I had a day job. Less so now, and quite happy with that.)

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

broke my favorite mug

mine would wait until I was home, then get up on the counters and look me dead in the eye and then push something off... mug, plant, didnt matter, they were making a political statement.

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

(I spent the first 30 years of my life trying to be an extrovert. It was an unhappy experiment.)

Oh, I feel your pain.

[lagilman]

People are tiring. I enjoy interacting, but it wipes me out in a way that 'normal' people (not even extroverts, just mid-range) are bewildered and occasionally annoyed about, and you can't point to one thing and say "this is why." It's just...effort.

We're not antisocial. You're just energy vampires, and we need quiet in which to recharge.

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

Heh. My best friend, who is a massive extrovert, sent me this article with the subject line, "Do I drive you nuts?"

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200602u/introverts

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. The older I get, the longer it takes to recover from a con.

I started calling myself a high-functioning introvert - good for about 3 days of social interaction, then Must. Be. ALONE.