A couple of friends

I know I've said a few times over the years that I don't have friends, and it is really true in one sense. I don't have anyone I'm close to, that I hang out with and talk to, except my husband. My band director Tim is probably the closest I have to a friend here in town, since I see him every week at band rehearsal and we chat about things outside of music and help each other out when one needs something, but we're not particularly close; he just happens to be the closest. I have a couple of people that I talk to online, but not like about personal stuff or anything. We have specific things we talk about but rarely stray out of that.

And that's fine by me. I don't know why, but I really am an introvert, in the sense that dealing with other people exhausts me and I'd much rather just not. I'm not shy - I'm perfectly comfortable interacting with people, and in fact, my husband marvels at my ability to just walk up to a celeb at Gallifrey One and start a conversation.

Anyway, so when I say "a couple of friends", that really should be more like "a couple of acquaintances".

I've really grown to like purplecat's method of identifying people by a set nickname, so I'm going to start doing that... until I forget what nickname I used for them and make a new one up.

( Friend 1: Skeleton )

( An aside: Rowboat )

( Friend 2: Bassist )