At the risk of sounding like a broken record (what's one of those?), I've never been a very sociable person, I don't have friends outside my immediate family, and although I get on with a group of work colleagues I rarely have much to say. My level of closeted CDing has increased recently and CDing is on my mind a lot more. I have found that this means that socially I have even less to say, because although I don't think I'd mind people knowing on an abstract level about me being a CDer, it's not something I want to force the issue on. There are many casual chats for which any contribution that I would want to make would be CD related. A simple example would just be "do anything interesting this weekend?" and the only real alternatives are "no not really, it was fairly quiet, how about you?" or "yes I bought a lovely new skirt and wore it all evening". Either option is pretty much a conversation killer, but the first option wins every time.
Susie
