[JohnSantos]

Working from home and being huge fat, I pretty much haven't left the house much in the past 3 years. So Saturday night I went to see a band at a bar, everybody was taking pictures. Then I saw the pics, and I looked like a walrus. Couldn't hear anybody talking, so I bailed.

Then I joined a new church, everybody was really nice but my social skills just aren't what they used to be. Before, I would have a crowd around me laughing about topics, now I just stand in the corner, hesitant to talk to people.

Think I'll go to a huge club next Friday and Saturday, and just force myself to talk to groups of people. Looking like a walrus, I'll repeatedly epic fail but I have to get these skills mastered before I'm thin again and looking good. I'd hate to arrive at my goal and start completely from scratch.

Good thing about a club, absolutely nobody remembers you or cares you biblical failed at talking to crowds of people. In a smaller setting (church, etc) it would be worse. Small parties and social gatherings will be cake after putting myself through that torture. Practice city for $9 cover charge.

Anyone else going through the same awkwardness?