Here's the thing, though... if it wasn't for the fact that I seem, for some inexplicable reason, to have developed a sex drive, I would be perfectly happy not socializing and instead just spending every evening curled up on the sofa with a negroni and a copy of I, Robot. What I said above about "Faking It" wasn't an exaggeration - when I'm talking to someone, I actually have to consciously think things like "I should probably laugh at that", and keeping it up - which I have to do pretty much constantly at work - is actually physically exhausting. I find abstract mathematics easier to understand than people.
This is why I'm thinking it would just be easier to pay for it every now and then, but like I said, there doesn't seem to be anyone working round here. At least not on the sites I know of.
(Any suggestions of where else to look would be gratefully received, btw)
I have an offer from demonsemen on chat to do something along these lines next time I'm in London, but right now i'm busy with work and travelling from 730am to 930pm with no idea of when I'll next be able to get time off, so fuck knows when that'll be.
(Also fuck knows if the offer will still be open if he sees this)
I have no trouble sending oinks or saying hi, but people seldom seem to respond to that and I have no clue what else to say.
Sorry, I'm sounding like a downer, I know. But I genuinely feel completely stuck.