Okay...um...I am NOT one of those people who excels at public speaking. In fact, I plain ole suck. I get nervous...I freak...I have anxiety attacks (well, not literally) beforehand.

There is absolutely NOTHING worse (atm) than waiting around to give a presentation or speech. For God's sake just let it be at the beginning of the day...first class...over and done. But NOOOOO...it has to be at 7 at friggin' night! Effectively forcing me to wait around for it.

THREE HOURS?! I have to freak for THREE MORE HOURS?! Urg. Ah well. At least after this my life will return to normal (boring).

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

So I've been stressing ALL day about this presentation. I just hate waiting around ya know? So...the class is supposed to start @ 7:30 PM and I pretty much start the thing by presenting...


Well, it's now 7 PM, and I just got an e-mail saying he'll be delayed half an hour. CHRIST MAN! Can I just get this fucking thing OVER WITH?!

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...





....finished. Went fine. :)

good to hear :)

My tip for overcoming your fear of public speaking: take every opportunity you can to speak in public. Sounds simple, perhaps even dumb, but it has more or less worked for me; in the last couple of years I have given numerous speeches, one to a crowd of 2000+ people; I have em'cd/hosted events for hundreds, and for the last two years, I have very briefly taken the stage at SF Pride to address the crowd - a crowd of oh, I dunno...500,000 or so (though I doubt more than 50,000-100,000 can actually see the mainstage and hear what we are saying up there, and of those, I would say, like 5, including my parents, were really paying attention - the rest are probably just tolerating us speach-a-fiers so they can hear the bands play afterwards).

And all this started in college when I decided I did not like being afraid to speak in class anymore, so I started doing it when I could and just biting the bullet. I also got a LOT of practice in law school by joining the Moot Court teams - undergraduate colleges offer debate teams, which would provide similar experience I would imagine.





Having said all that, I still get nervous before I speak. Such is life.

Hmmm. Yeah I've heard that! Just jump out there...I really should take more chances. Well, I have a presentation next week as well...in Spanish. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!


Espanol es muy malo.

I've found that speaking (or singing) in front of multitudes is nowhere near as nerve wracking as speaking in front of about 20 people. I like the big crowd.

Have a shot.. and follow that up umm ... a shot.. i know lots of ppl who just wont shut up when theyve had a few drinks.