MAL weekend
Jan. 17th, 2006 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apparentparadoxWell, the weekend had the possibility of being one of the worst that I've ever spent, but it ended up being not that bad.
United managed to screw up my seat assignment. I was lucky enough to get an exit row seat on the flight out (next to a large guy who couldn't fit completely in his seat). I was stuck in a middle seat on the way back, but was between two women, so I actually had more room in that seat.
I did get to see some friends (both people in DC and those who traveled to DC). Unfortunately, a couple of people I had thought I would get to see (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bjarvis, for example) I didn't get to see much of at all. I'll be back with Mark in Feb, so hopefully we'll see some of those people then.
Some friends from Cleveland were kind enough to let me hang out with them, so I was able to stand the crowds in the lobby bar for short periods of time. By Sunday, however, I was completely wiped out & spent nearly the entire day in the hotel room alone reading to recover. Sometimes life isn't easy for an introvert.
After I got home, Mark asked me if I thought that I had done the right thing by going. I think that it was good for me to go. I'm trying to not let my introversion/shyness/lack-of-self-esteem always dictate what I do. I'm trying to push myself at times under controlled circumstances. If I never push at all, then I'll never know where the boundaries really are.
One friend made an interesting comment that I'll have to follow up on. He said that before, he thought that he was an introvert, but that was just low self-esteem/shyness/depression. Now that he's working on all that stuff, he's discovered that he really is an extrovert. While I know that isn't the case with me, it may be getting to be the time to work on my own shyness/low self-esteem issues.
The one completely enjoyable, and completely unexpected item from the weekend was sitting next to Diane on the flight home. I had seen her at MAL (she actually sat just a few seats from me during the contest), and we chatted about many different subjects during the flight.
United managed to screw up my seat assignment. I was lucky enough to get an exit row seat on the flight out (next to a large guy who couldn't fit completely in his seat). I was stuck in a middle seat on the way back, but was between two women, so I actually had more room in that seat.
I did get to see some friends (both people in DC and those who traveled to DC). Unfortunately, a couple of people I had thought I would get to see (
bjarvis, for example) I didn't get to see much of at all. I'll be back with Mark in Feb, so hopefully we'll see some of those people then.Some friends from Cleveland were kind enough to let me hang out with them, so I was able to stand the crowds in the lobby bar for short periods of time. By Sunday, however, I was completely wiped out & spent nearly the entire day in the hotel room alone reading to recover. Sometimes life isn't easy for an introvert.
After I got home, Mark asked me if I thought that I had done the right thing by going. I think that it was good for me to go. I'm trying to not let my introversion/shyness/lack-of-self-esteem always dictate what I do. I'm trying to push myself at times under controlled circumstances. If I never push at all, then I'll never know where the boundaries really are.
One friend made an interesting comment that I'll have to follow up on. He said that before, he thought that he was an introvert, but that was just low self-esteem/shyness/depression. Now that he's working on all that stuff, he's discovered that he really is an extrovert. While I know that isn't the case with me, it may be getting to be the time to work on my own shyness/low self-esteem issues.
The one completely enjoyable, and completely unexpected item from the weekend was sitting next to Diane on the flight home. I had seen her at MAL (she actually sat just a few seats from me during the contest), and we chatted about many different subjects during the flight.