rhapsodic.org is a weblog by Valette Keller

in the groove

when im nervous, i tend to not breathe out. i breathe in fine and dandy, but i forget to expel the carbon dioxide. thirty seconds later, i have a diaphragm full of air and cannot figure out what to do with it.

my diaphragm full of air causes me to speak faster and slightly higher pitched until i remember to take a few seconds to breathe out.

oh. you mean im supposed to breathe in and then back out again? i can so do that.

which is usually when i hit my groove.

the problem with a super short presentation in front of a whole bunch of people i dont know is that i barely have enough time to get over my nervousness and into the groove of being the center of attention.

moral of the story: talk longer.