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Hit a pod for you today, Monday, where you are.

Sunday where I am, storm rolling through St. Louis County.

It's about 6 PM on Sunday night. I had a busy day. I went outside my comfort zone. I went to a barbecue

thrown by an old high school friend, an old high school acquaintance actually at best didn't really know him also attended by a couple other

people I knew in the past but definitely made myself go to a party that I did not want to go to not because I didn't like the people but because it

could be weird what what have I said about these people maybe on stage or on my Instagram

that they're going to confront me about and then I'll feel like I don't know just

filled with nerves about it wanting to bail problem is I'm trying to be someone who doesn't say she's going to do something and then backs out.

I'm trying to be a woman of my word because that's all that you have.

No, that's not true.

That's just like a thing people say, but what does that even mean?

You have lots of things. And yeah, just, I feel, I felt every, every impulse was to not go looking for any excuse begging for a tornado to just strike and just decimate the county on my behalf so I didn't have to attend a social function.

Seriously, I would, there might be a loss of life, but these are, I mean I didn't

conjure it, but yeah, like wanting a natural disaster strike St. Louis so I could get up going to this party.

And I tried to bail a couple days ago. I was like, listen, I'm on the fence and I was honest. I was like,

I feel like I might have said something about these people in an

Instagram thing, they might be mad at me about it, I don't, I'm having lots of social anxiety,

and I don't usually tend to throw around that term because I don't think I

really suffer from it as bad as people who actually do but I was having it

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