Saturday, April 16, 2011

On Embarrassment at Formal

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“Why won’t you tell him what your blog is?”

The million dollar question of formal night.

“Because I’m embarrassed.”

Look, don’t ask me why I’m embarrassed because I don’t know. I get flustered whenever this blog is brought up.

It’s not you, it’s me.

I’ll say it again my precious little reader, it’s not you. It’s definitely some sort of chemical imbalance in my brain.

I would have been glad to eat my chicken and mashed potatoes without ever talking about this place.

Then someone (Barrett) said, “It’s aldtalks.blogspot.com” and I wanted to die. Roll me under a truck. Set me on fire.

And feelings of death usually put me into defensive mode, so I said “No it’s not. What does ‘ald’ even mean?”

Not the most solid argument I’ve ever made because then at least three people said “Autumn Lindsay Dixon” and somehow I still defended that aldtalks.blogspot.com was not my blog by saying, “That’s not my name.”

Since I detrimentally failed to convince anyone that that was not my blog, Ali said “My mom loves your blog! She talks about it all the time!”

I let it go then. Cool, people read my blog. Isn’t that why I have it?

Some part of me believes that you want to hear about tornadoes in Arkansas and my obsession with Utah, so I keep writing. And you keep reading.

That’s nothing to be embarrassed about.

…right?

5 comments:

  1. i love hearing about tornadoes and your obsession with Utah, and mormons. That is def why i keep reading.

    ps. you should write a blog post about your roommmate and how awesome she is. she seems like a very cool girl, someone who would never say "to the shower!" with her towel like a cape. never. that would be weird.

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  2. Don't listen to anyone, you've got a cool blog! I love your funny attitude towards things. Keep writing!

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  3. i love your dress, and your hair! my school just had a formal as well...but we didn't get a fancy meal like yours!

    you're not alone, i'm embarrassed about my blog too! i don't know why, but i'd be strange to me if people IRL actually read it.

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  4. I am pretty much the same way. Most of my friends know I blog, but they have never actually read what I post because I haven't given them my blog address. I don't know what it is, I guess I'm shy, or I don't think they should bother because I everything I post, they already know. I'm with you on this one. haha.

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  5. Oh my gosh I am the exact same way! Some how all my guy friends found out and started reading it with me sitting right there. So embarassing.

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