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Jan. 24th, 2005 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasThere are a lot of good things about working Massage Den, of course. One of them is that, well, I like giving massages. Otherwise I wouldn't work Massage Den. And, well, it's really nice having a universally appreciated job. I mean, people see the staff ribbon on my badge, and ask where I'm working, and I say "Massage Den", and they really seem pleased that such a thing exists. That's cool. And Crystal does do her damnedest to make sure that we all don't burn out. I'm just grumpy because I'm usually grumpy after cons.
There's something about the particular way in which I'm introverted which doesn't work well with cons. I mean, I'm people-needy, in general -- I need social contact. With, specifically, the kinds of people who go to cons. And so I've got this feeling like there are all these people around me who I SHOULD be interacting with, and I don't. Mostly, at cons, I spend a lot of time wandering around aimlessly. That's one of the reasons I'm really glad to work Massage Den, because it structures a lot of my time, leaving me with less aimless wandering time.
But it also means that I've got less time to do whatever it is that I go to cons to do, even though I've never quite figured out whatever that is, which is why I spend that time wandering aimlessly, looking for whatever it is.
There's something about the particular way in which I'm introverted which doesn't work well with cons. I mean, I'm people-needy, in general -- I need social contact. With, specifically, the kinds of people who go to cons. And so I've got this feeling like there are all these people around me who I SHOULD be interacting with, and I don't. Mostly, at cons, I spend a lot of time wandering around aimlessly. That's one of the reasons I'm really glad to work Massage Den, because it structures a lot of my time, leaving me with less aimless wandering time.
But it also means that I've got less time to do whatever it is that I go to cons to do, even though I've never quite figured out whatever that is, which is why I spend that time wandering aimlessly, looking for whatever it is.