No, this not about the movies. Sorry.
This is about me (but then what isn't?) and people like me who have learned to socialise with the best of them.
Actually, I have a dual purpose in creating this thread: My latest article has been published and has become my first FRONT PAGE material. Of course, I am very happy to have my work published at all much less on the cover. But I'm getting ahead of myself....
You see, I am the food and entertainment contributing editor for a local magazine called Bakersfield Magazine. I write about the local food scene, local notables who throw great parties and the like. This requires me to do a lot of social interacting, something I've become quite skilled at emulating. Truth be told- I tend to drink a lot when in those situations so that I can relax enough to stick it out.
Anyway, being social, to say nothing of being a writer about social events, is nothing but pure performance on my part. When I get home I am as exhausted as if I had worked all day in the yard. I adopt a persona I have come to call Party Miles. He's flambouyant, friendly, a skilled speaker with a sharp wit and even sharper tongue. He can breeze into conversations with complete strangers. He is confident and self-assured. He is everything I am naturally not. He is a character I adopt to get me through a writing project. I guess, in essence, he is a lie. My partner has seen him from time to time and asks, "Who the hell was that?"
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That's me, dead center, wearing (totally fake) glasses holding the plate and smiling like a complete goof.
There. Now y'all know a secret most of my acquaintences don't know. I'm an actor who plays being a normal, gregarious person.