I just realised something, something annoying and paradoxical which I would like to work on. I am OK at expressing myself in written words... and somewhat awful at expressing myself in spoken words. Today someone made a remark about a blog post I wrote recently and I found myself completely unable to discuss the topic like a rational human being. I stammered and spluttered and uttered sentences that don't deserve the title of sentence because they were so audibly hideous. I'm pretty good at listening to people... and rather awful at being listened to. I guess I just need to work on my conversational skills, but it's hard because I get flustered and somehow manage to say the most interesting things in the dullest way possible. And I get terribly self-conscious about it, too, which just drags me down further and I end up trailing off at the end of every sentence because I realise that no one's listening any more because I just haven't been speaking very well. It freaks me out a bit.
Though I can be articulate and eloquent when the mood strikes me... which is never when I'm nervous. Eep.

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

—	Ernest Hemingway