On conversations and conversing

[yuuago]

"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.

Comments

[yuuago]

Were I not so awkward and nervous, I'd be happy to!

[yuuago]

[/cuddles]
;3;!

[(Anonymous)]

skype with me, i never have anyone to speak to and i mumble and am quiet and awkward. we can improve our skills together.

although you are not visiting me, but we can still skype
...that is not even a sentence, that is a sentence fragment, it must be late

[noyadespate.livejournal.com]

THIS IS BICE, i guess i must be too used to anoning, gahhhh how did i even click that button

[yuuago]

Hahaha, I figured it'd be you. Anyway.

Maybe we could do it. Just for, ah, practice. I wouldn't be comfortable doing it in the evening, as my parents would be sticking their nose in my business... but maybe during the late afternoon, some time.

I'm not visiting you, but I like the thought of travelling with you. It'll probably never happen, but it's nice to daydream about it.

[(Anonymous)]

well, if i get my artist act together i should be travelling somewhere every summer for the next five years

obviously i have to manipulate events so at some point when you are travelling, our paths intersect

or we can just, you know, meet up in sweden or finland or something, not exactly travelling but that's a technical detail. we'll work something out, sometime.

and i am up for skyping anytime that i'm not in class or doing schoolwork, my afternoons are free so- maybe on one of your days off or on a weekend? we can be awkward together!

[noyadespate.livejournal.com]

i swear i didn't click the anon button sob it's so late or so early

[yuuago]

Laughing at you, ljubice. :)a

That all sounds lovely. We'll work something out, I'm sure. Somehow! If only money wasn't such an issue....

Weekends are a 'no', as I almost always work them, but on one of my days off, that would be fine. I think my next is Wednesday and Thursday this week, but I'll have to check.

We can be awkward together, until we manage to hit on one of the subjects I love, in which case I might never shut up.

[noonish.livejournal.com]

hey guys sweden looks like a dong

[yuuago]

Well GEE Noon you didn't have to tell the WHOLE WORLD.

Also, ilu.

[noonish.livejournal.com]

OH NO I HOPE I DIDN'T EMBARRASS HIM


do you think sometimes when norway is horny he just walks up to a map and strokes the outline of sweden and is like AWWWW YEAH LOOK AT THAT FINE PIECE OF MAN

[kainoliero.livejournal.com]

What noonish said, and also I wouldn't mind skypeing w you sometime! :3 Nevermind the accent, I bet mine beats yours 6-0 any day.

[yuuago]

Ahhh is that so? Well... I'll consider it. As long as you wouldn't mind putting up with a bucketload of awkward. :)a

(And okay, I'll never mind accents - But I'm sure your accent is adorable! Mine just makes me sound like a hick, pfft...)

[kainoliero.livejournal.com]

I'm there as kainoliero. I found one yuuago in saskatoon, canada, but I'm just paranoid enough that I didn't dare add them just in case they were someone else...

[yuuago]

Oh! Yes, that is me. I don't use it much, thus why I haven't changed my location yet even though I moved ages ago. xD
(Though I will have to do that after I get back from work fuuuuuu--- )

[yuuago]

Pfft, maybe. :)a But alas, you'd discover that I'm not as cool and collected that I am on the internet! How awful.

[diplopod.livejournal.com]

I have skype, but I've never actually used it 'cause... well, the same reasons as you really, just replace accent with mumbling. orz You could practice talking to me if you like, but I can't imagine that conversation getting very far. Norway and Sweden level awkward, that.

Anyway, I don't know about you, but I find it easier to talk to people in a group rather than one-on-one. If skype supports that kind of thing it might be easier for you to start out that way instead.

[yuuago]

Skype does support that kind of thing... HMM. Well, I've arranged to do a (small) group chat with some people that I am very familiar with, so we'll see how that goes. orz I need... conversational practice.

But not conversational practice with you, because that would be like Sweden and Norway. We'd just be like "... :|" the whole time.

[const-victoria.livejournal.com]

Such a painfully familiar situation. :D Once an irl friend whom I have known for several years got the idea we should chat via skype. I just kept inventing excuses for weeks until she sighed and gave up. And that's a person who already knows what I look and sound like! Not sure why exactly it freaks me out so much - maybe I'm too used to multitasking and switching between activities when online and chatting would require concentration. Or maybe it's because my voice sounds stupid. Either way, thank God for messaging and LJ.

...Um, yeah. Uninspiring comment is uninspiring.

so late

[scrii.livejournal.com]

i actually just got a microphone and though i'm probably real awkward over the internet (..as always) and even more so when i'm not home alone and though you're NOT REALLY VISITING HERE because you are a sane person if you ever want to skype just let me know! and HEY if i ever ever get the confidence we could mumble canadian-finnish/australian-finnish at each other and throw umlauts around yeahhh

though it's totally cool if you wouldn't be comfortable with it haha

Even later!

[yuuago]

We would be the most awkward voicechat bros in the entire world.

I'm not sure if I'd be comfortable but maybe after I get used to voicechatting with people we could try it ;3; I'd love to hear you say stuff to me in Finnish, at the very least! Ahaha, though I can't really say anything, my studying has been... uh... nonexistent, orz. This job of mine, I tell ya'.