The Sound of (awkward) Silence

I just love networking events. They do so much to reinforce my belief that I am, in fact, socially inept. I always suspected this to be the case, but there is nothing like a good United Way Leadership Giving breakfast to confirm my belief. Honestly, I can think of nothing more painful than standing around at 7:30 am wearing an uncomfortable suit and talking to banking executives about the unseasonably warm weather for the fourteenth time this week. Believe it or not, I actually don’t find the unseasonably warm weather all that interesting. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I don’t care at all about the unseasonably warm weather. But discussing the weather seemed a safer option than trying to impress everyone with my amazing ability to gargle classical music. This actually went over quite well at Trader Joes, but when I do it during business meetings, people tend to give me funny looks.

Anyway, it’s over now and I can go back to my cube and be as unsociable as I want. The fact that this is a gigantic relief I think speaks to the fact that unsociability is not something I make an effort to convey, but is simply my natural state of being. I used to try to fight this, but I gave up a long time ago. I’ve found that it is much easier to find other hostile people and bond with them – which I guess makes us not so hostile after all, but whatever. I’m starting to confuse myself.

I’m beginning to be far less stressed out at work these days, which is nice, because it allows me to concentrate on my new favorite game: rearranging the gold sparkly letters that my co-workers used to spell ‘Kira Gerasimon’s Birthday’ on my cube wall back in August. I actually only have ‘SBIRTHDAY, because my name card on the wall provided the other letters necessary for that phrase. Anyway, I’ve been periodically rearranging those letters to read different things. So far, I have come up with:

Kira Gerasimon has dirt
Kira Gerasimon has no dirt
Kira Gerasimon is nerdy
Kira Gerasimon is bored
Kira Gerasimon is done
Kira Gerasimon, modernist
Kira Gerasimon in the mob
Kira Gerasimon dithers

I’m having excellent fun with this. If you have any suggestions for interesting things I can spell with the letters SBIRTHDAY, please submit them. They will most likely make the cube wall one of these days.

I think my creativity is definitely wasted in an office environment.