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Happy National Awkward Moments Day!

Yes, I Googled in desperation to find an innocuous holiday I could blog about.

Boy (Girl) did I luck out!

Yes, I could belatedly post about Pi Day, but I don’t really have opinions, experience or knowledge about baking or math.

I DO have experience with awkwardness though…both giving and receiving. In fact, it’s so common, this may actually be hard to blog about because it’s hard to think of awkward moments that stand out.

There are the classic gold standard moments, such as when I flipped over in my desk the first day of a freshman college geography class.

And the recent, everyday moments when I think I am wearing a classy, professional and appropriately sexy ensemble and then notice an iron print mark on my pencil skirt.

I think I’ve blogged before about aspiring to have no shame, because shame can often just feed our egos. In other words, we often freak out about our social faux pas because we’re too fixated on ourselves and imagine we’re the main character of everyone else’s story. No one else really cares that much about us so it doesn’t matter if we’re an ass (unless we actually hurt someone with our thoughtless comments or actions).

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But celebrating awkwardness feels less self-involved. It’s more about celebrating our mutual humanness and weirdness and feeling uncomfortable in the moment.

And to keep it slightly topical, working at home and having virtual meetings provides a lot of awkward moments…from talking away when your microphone is muted, to being the only person not using video because you’re still in pajamas and not wearing makeup, to having your cute little dog losing his puppy mind and barking like a banshee in the background.

Of course blogging provides opportunities for awkwardness, like not having a good post conculsion…