Owtch.

I just had my feelings hurt.  I don't usually worry overmuch about how people percieve my personality and don't really mind if somebody doesn't really care for me.  In fact, having a couple enemies here and there adds some spice to life...  Nevertheless, I usually like most everybody.  The only types of people I can't immediately get along with are slutty, obnoxious females.  Can't stand 'em.

But, there's a young woman my age that I work with, and I'm fond of her.  She's cynical and happy and surprisingly fiesty.  We were having a conversation this morning, and in the course of it, she changed the subject and "confided" to me (in the company of two other people), "No offense (trans:  I'm about to offend you), but when I first met you, I thought you were one of the fakest people I'd ever met."

I was appalled.  I've been called reserved, sweet, shy, obnoxious, even boring.   But fake?  Doesn't matter in the scheme of things, but it makes me wonder about my work persona.  Is it really so different from my real persona?