I went out to an event yesterday to play an unreleased video game and it was fun and good to get out, even though I mostly just got out to a dark room and barely saw or talked to anyone once I was in there. I found myself slightly shaking while I was there and I couldn't really figure out why. It wasn't especially cold, I haven't picked up some kind of random shake, as far as I know. Like... was I anxious about being out after not being out for so long? I kinda felt a little on edge the whole time, it was weird.

We moved to SoCal in mid-2021 and I think I've only left the house to do work stuff like four times since then, and one of those was just quickly catching breakfast with some friends who were in town. Like I feel myself getting weirder and social interactions are taking a little more out of me than they did before. I don't really know where this all leads, it's actually sort of fun this way. But... yeah, I don't know. I was pretty awkward before and I'm even moreso now, I guess.

Heading to Wrestlemania this weekend, gonna see some people I haven't seen in a really long time. Excited about it! Kinda nervous about it?


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in reply to @jeffgerstmann's post:

yeah the loss of social skills from pandemic isolation is real. the last 3 years have done a real number on me in several ways... i'm always hoping the neighbors don't hear my occasional odd vocalizations.

I've been forced to work in person since basically june of 2020 (teaching) but I do feel like I get a small dose of this after every summer when I become a shut in and play video games almost every day.

Frankly, hoping that playing Guild Wars 2 again helps me remember how to talk to other people more regularly.

Big same, going out and doing shit feels like how it did before I went out and did shit. Of all the ways I want to go back in time the better part of a decade that was NOT one of them thank you.