The Truth Files

Stephen Colbert/Daily Show Love. House, Hugh Laurie, Black Adder, BritCom obsessiveness. Eddie Izzard quoting ad naseum. Self loathing. Other people loathing. Anything else I can loathe-fit that in there too. Tales of alcohol and dogs. The occassional night at the bar causing trouble. Mis-treating brain cells...Who needs them? No sex. No drugs-usually. Much rock'n'roll. Just trying to survive in 615. Y'know. The usual.

Friday, July 15, 2005

Everything means less than zero

Ever conversate with someone and all the conversation you're enjoying yourself and having a lovely chat and then you get off the phone and start thinking "wow, what asshole thing did I say this time?" Every time I talk to anyone on the phone (or in person for that matter) I have a similar internal dialogue with myself. Like, just this evening-I had a clever chat with a list person. We talked for about an hour and a half and all the while I'm thinking about all the fun bits of information we're sharing with each other and how I don't really even know this person but we have this THING in common so we're getting on grand. I even shared a rather embarassing story (but I knew it at the time-see, so I knew I shouldn't be proud of this story-and I'm not but I still share it it's that kind of story-it involves Jager-nuff said). Yet, as soon as we were off the phone, even after getting our plans to cross paths on Sunday before JJW I started thinking "what asshole thing did I say? I said something so unbearably stupid I will be blacklisted for life. What dumbass thing did I say?? Oh, I am an eejit and I have proven it by my stupid actions before even seeing the people in the flesh."
Is this normal? Is it a pretty regular reaction to think that after having a pretty good conversation with someone you come over all self conscious and start to think that there is something that I (you, the person in question) said that at the time seemed inconsequential but in reality it's the biggest moment of idiocy you've ever participated in? I swear I live in a constant state of-oh my God, did I say something I didn't realize I was saying at the time. This even happens when I'm conversating with people I know-I'll talk to people Im friendly with and at the end of the call I'll wonder what stupid friendship ruining thing I said during the course of the conversation.
I live in a constant state wherein I assume all I ever say is the wrong thing. Do I only say the wrong thing? Or do I have issues of a whole 'nother sort? Maybe, I just have some kind of social anxiety disorder that leads me to believe I have less than zero social skills. Then again, maybe that is the sum total of the skills I have.

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