About Me — Corrie Alexander

I probably won’t come to your party, but I promise I’m still worth getting to know!

My name is Corrie Alexander, and I’m a thirty-something Canuck living in Ontario.

I’m what you’d recognize as a textbook homebody. I work from home. I eat at home. I exercise at home. I seldom leave the house save for exercise and errands.

And that was before quarantining was cool.

Like most introverts, it’s not that I don’t like people or going to social functions, but I can only do them so often and have to mentally prepare myself in advance. They’re just exhausting somehow.

Maybe it’s because I find it really difficult to put myself out there in person, especially when it’s a party where I don’t know a lot of people that well.

For example, I utterly loathe the ritual of finding a circle of people to go stand in while somehow jumping into the conversation. There never seems to be a space to get a word in, so I’m just that weirdo who sidles up while sipping her drink and says nothing while everyone else keeps talking. Then — typically about 30 seconds after my arrival — the circle disperses to find new people to talk to, leaving me to stand there and wonder what happened, since it couldn’t possibly have been something I said.