Socially Awkward

Since I have been feeling ugly recently, I have taken to extreme measures of not talking to anybody directly.

Whilst e-mail is my preferred method of communication, I am also online on three different instant messengers for work related issues in case somebody needs my valuable assistance.

I am almost sheepishly staring at my screen so I dont have to show my full frontal view of a spotty chin to anybody who walks past my desk.

To an extent, I have also been trying to overhear any noise in the tea/coffee area before stepping in and surreptitiously going to the toilets to see if my hair too greasy and my skin too bad.

In the extreme circumstances when I really have to go to speak to somebody about work then I have a scarf around my chin - where the greatest concentration of my spots is to be found.

And while I find that all this works, I am also beginning to find out why Librarians, Geeks and others of the socially awkward job situations are so - mostly because people are spotty. That's probably why you never find a socially awkward beautician for example....