On conversations and conversing

"You could drive from Sweden to Finland, couldn't you?"
One could, but it wouldn't be practical.
"Why not?"
Because -- here, I'll just draw you a map. They're connected this way--
"Wait- how can you draw it so easily?"
Oh, well Finland looks a bit like a person, see, and Sweden looks like a -- well um, anyway, Norway is over here...

Conversations with my mum are always interesting. And by interesting I mean... Well.

She keeps insisting that I should skype with the friends I want to visit. Never mind that most of the time, we are not online at the same time any more due to my work schedule. By the time I get home, they are in bed, or at least should be, as it'd be past 3 AM. Hmph.

But even on days when we are around at the same time, I just -- ahhh the thought makes me feel quite insecure. I'm not very good at carrying on spoken conversation. I'm not articulate, I can't form my thoughts into vocal sentences, and I just have trouble speaking right... And apparently my accent is thicker than I thought, or maybe I'm just plain difficult to understand, because nobody seems to understand what I'm trying to say, and I have to repeat it three times before they get what I'm saying. This is a problem I have in real life - I shudder to think of what it might be like in an over-the-internet conversation.

Rrrgh the thought of it makes me nervous. Though there is also a large part of me that wouldn't mind it, not really. It would just be... super super awkward.

Be right back, gonna' hide under the bed forever.