Thanks Ima! And welcome to Hubski too for that matter. The talking to strangers thing was something I had never really done before, but I'm very glad I did it. I think it will be a useful and fun life skill for the future especially now what with being 3000 miles from home and all. I'm a recent college graduate and I've got a job down by Tacoma, so it makes it a lot easier to just live there and commute instead of commuting from Seattle.
Hey, thanks! Glad to be here. You all seem like a nice lot of people. :) Also, random off topic side point: I used to be on another forum a long while ago with the same username, and they also used to call me Ima, so, wow, you calling me that gives me a huge wave of nostalgia. Gah. But anyways! It is definitely a useful life skill. I consider myself an introvert, like you, so I find it very difficult to just talk to people like that. But the few times that I have have invariably been with really interesting people. It's a good thing to do. It humanizes everyone around you, which is awesome, because I tend to think of people I don't know as basically just quickly disappearing faces.