magnetic_pole

It's my first week of classes, flist, and I am exhausted. I love teaching, and I love my students (almost all of them!), and I love the fact that whole groups of people talk get together to talk about my academic subject for hours upon hours every week, but interacting with so many people just exhausts me. More so than the average teacher, I think. (I had to hide in the storage room for a moment today, because it was just all too much.)

I haven't been super-active fannishly for a while now, but I really love reading the flist and following your current passions and dramas, and it's partly because LJ/DW is social interaction without actually being there, in person, with someone, which is wonderful but tiring. (And conversely, I love being in the city, because it's being with people without any real interaction.) How about you, flist? Where do you fall on the introvert/extrovert spectrum? How do you deal with the challenges of needing company, or needing time alone?

Poll over here on LJ (sorry, DW folks)