Feeling: Popular
Listening to: You're Pretty - "Pretending" (found on mp3.com)
Reading/Watching: ahem, also listening to: Lady Jane Grey. tons of it.

I hate when everyone talks at once. It makes me look like an idiot, because I'm trying to listen to everyone, and not hearing anyone.

And I have this blank, polite face that I wear, because my brain is desperately trying to piece out the garbled information my less-than-stellar ears have just phoned in. People watch me with that expectant face, because they just asked me a question, and I feel like such an idiot because instead of being honest and saying, "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. What?" I actually try to get by. I try to smile, attempt a nod or a shake of the head, shrug, whatever will get me off easily.

In the end, people think I'm aloof or ditzy or just plain don't care. If you see me looking vacuous and nodding slowly, please repeat what you said. Clearly.

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