Conventional Wisdom

(Historical Notes:  Some people would look at this turn of events and assume I must have been drunk.  Trust me, if you want to make me more boisterous and out-going, giving me booze is the absolute WRONG way to do it.  Removing my inhibitions will just make me quietly sit in the corner and go to sleep.  If you want me actually interacting with other, you need to pump me full of stuff that will make me act as UNnaturally as possible.  And you’d better believe I was full of unnatural things here.  I’ve more or less sworn off energy drinks these days, mostly to try and balance out the damage I did to my own body from chugging so many before convention panels.  On the drive back home after this, I had nothing by relaxing Japanese Smooth Jazz playing, and nobody could understand how it wasn’t putting me to sleep.  I had to explain that I was still so hyper that listening to anything more excitable probably would have given me a heart attack.)