Treading the jungle between extroversion and introversion

I am or at least used to be the uber introvert.

To put this into perspective, at University I must have spent at least 80-90% of the time alone in my room while other people around me were out partying. The best example of this came during my first year when both of my friends from school (who were also at the same University) went home for the weekend on a Thursday afternoon. I went out of my room twice between then and Monday morning.

Contrast that to last night at 9pm. I was just sitting around waiting for Match of the Day which was due to start at 10.30pm. I couldn’t handle it anymore so picked up my coat and went up into London, watched my friend do a stand up set in Angel before heading south to meet some guys from work who were at a bar in Soho. I got home at 5am.

I’m not sure exactly where the crossover occurred or if indeed there has been a crossover so to speak, but things certainly seem different. I used to be the one who barely said anything in a group conversation but now people think there is something wrong if I don’t speak for 5 minute. Strange how things change.

Got to feel sorry for Stanley O’Neil

Chief Executive of Merrill Lynch…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7064948.stm

Can’t get much worse than that really. It’s almost like the shareholders are saying ‘yes we think you’re rubbish and we’re putting our money where our mouth is’. Harsh times. Still I suppose someone has to take the bullet and I’m sure a huge payoff will be in the offing so maybe not too much sorrow for him.