Introduction Day

Day 11

I bet if I looked back at my posts, I would find that the time I posted them directly correlates to their length (the later the time, the shorter the post). I really need to get to sleep earlier.
Anyways, today's task was to introduce myself to someone I see around, but have never talked to. This is not easy in a school of around 50 students. I was going to introduce myself to the new(ish) business manager, but she looked busy, and I was really just looking for an excuse to put it off. When I was little, I didn't say 'thank you' when people complimented me because I was too shy. I've come a long way from that, but I still struggle with an intense aversion to being as outgoing as I would like to. I was stumped as to who I could target until I realized that I was going into the fencing club tonight, and I could just introduce myself to someone there. I was in a good mood following practice, because I thought I had fenced pretty well, so it didn't take much effort to walk up to someone (whose name I found out is Tal... I think) and told him that I'd never actually introduced myself. It struck me how interesting it is that pretty much all over the world, the first thing we as of anyone we meet is what their name is- something virtually insignificant in defining who that person actually is. Hm. I debated whether or not to shake his hand or not, and finally did. And that was the extent of today's adventure (unless of course you include the battle my eyelids fought against the quite formidable force of gravity while writing this).