It's okay. No worries about matching pace. Thank you for taking the time respond to these messages so thoughtfully.
It's likely not going to be noticeable. I get slightly more chatty when anxious, but most of the time I try and keep it internalized so I don't strain the other person. Been doing okay at conversing, but a complete oaf at 'being a friend'. Had a couple instances of somebody wanting to do an activity, suddenly find it nerve wracking, and I start avoiding my inbox. I guess that's gotten slightly better too. I played chess with Roni a couple times, and traded Pokemon with another user.
Taking it in tiny steps. One big leap was when a friend on here convinced me to get on a live phone call. I catastrophized that so badly, but it wasn't as bad as I thought in my head. Still, I will probably never do that ever again.
I pet the Kangaroos, didn't pet the Emu's. I love animals but I wouldn't say I'm a huge bird person. Still, I was happy simply being in the presence of them. Simiarily, I have a preference for dogs over cats.
One of my favorite artists is Eddie Van Halen. It's not really the heaviest music, but I still like the instrumentals. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq-potK_7Ts). Still more of a morning person. At night I start getting checked out.
Never heard of mi goreng but hope you had a good time with it. I had a beignet for the first time last week, which is a fried french donut. Hoping to make my 10,000th post on here soon so that'll be pretty neat. I might be around the TV camera, hopefully our seats end up slightly above that. It's a 3 hour show so being seated right on camera angle might be an exhausting realization. I wouldn't mind if it panned across us once or twice.
I do appreciate how Mario Kart 8 doesn't lag online. Can't recall if I have played any other online games aside from Smash Brothers and Mario Kart, but the former does have serious lag problems.