had some fun conversations with artists last night at the show, vs others had a vibe that ran me out of the room at hello it wasn't nerves because one of the fun ones was totally hyper nervous fast talking
i've def gotten worse at noisy crowds since the pandemic, harder to filter out everything else while being open to the person i want to listen to
curiosity helps a lot- when the conversation comes to a pause, having something i genuinely want to know makes it easy to ask a friendly question