DEF CON Hermit

I'm antisocial at the best of times, but occasionally I find human interaction almost completely intolerable.  My usual level of hermit will rarely exceed 'Operation Hermit' or 'Operation Extreme Hermit', but last week the combination of having to re-organise the entire house, pack up a family members house, catch up on all the work I'm behind in and... well... people just got too much.

So I declared DEF CON Hermit.

The one thing that gets under my skin like nothing else does, is the feeling of being overwhelmed and then having people hassle me while I'm feeling overwhelmed.  I thought that declaring DEF CON Hermit would stop people from annoying the crap out of me.

I was wrong.

Apparently telling people to leave me alone only encourages most of them to bombard me with facebook messages, text messages and emails even more than they usually would.  I'm not going to lie, this has pissed me off.  A lot.

I get that people don't really get the whole introverted hermit thing, but even if it's not something people can't understand, it's not that hard (in my opinion) to respect it.  Or try to.

And every single message or email I get, just puts me in more of a bad mood and makes me want to stay away from people for longer.  I'm hoping that it'll die down soon and they'll leave me be.  But I highly doubt that.

In the meantime, my inbox can continue to fill while I avoid it.

It's hard being antisocial sometimes.