{"id":2377,"date":"2008-09-24T23:13:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T06:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2008-09-24T23:13:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T06:13:49","slug":"banishing-the-awkwardness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2377","title":{"rendered":"Banishing the awkwardness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And so she&#8230;&#8221; I would tell the story almost haltingly, but not as fluid as I could in writing.  &#8220;And then she sent it off&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People would laugh, but would they laugh out of politeness or because it was really funny?  After thinking of the thousand avenues I could take, I decided to take an improv class starting tomorrow to improve my outward communication.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely enough, I tested as a &#8220;PERFORMER&#8221; in a popular personality test.  I do like being the center of attention, entertaining people.  And it&#8217;s true, I can be with the right set of people.  I do dominate sometimes with an aura.<\/p>\n<p>But most of the time, in the company of strangers, I become quite the opposite\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe wallflower.  Even though instances, I dream of breaking out.  Sometimes I do&#8230;when I feel a lot of positive energy growing in the room usually with the presence of alcohol.  I may be the first one to dance.  The first one to sing loudly and obnoxiously on the karaoke system.  I have.<\/p>\n<p>Last year during this time, I started writing my own comedy routine, wondering if I could make it to an open mic night.  It veered left field out of my usual personality, but not only did I want to surprise people, I wanted to prove it to myself.  I thought a lot of great jokes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut couldn&#8217;t think of the right delivery.  An ex-boyfriend once said that I was one of the funniest people he knew.  Other people have said that I have this mysterious aura, an allure of lyrical words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I just hope I can vocalize it all.<\/p>\n<p>I have dreamed about being a musician, a dancer, a comedian.  It&#8217;s definitely not a dream job, but I want to do it once.<\/p>\n<p>And so improv.  Plus I want to have witty comebacks to pushy salesmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And so she&#8230;&#8221; I would tell the story almost haltingly, but not as fluid as I could in writing. &#8220;And then she sent it off&#8230;&#8221; People would laugh, but would they laugh out of politeness or because it was really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}