After leaving the toxic job evironment I was in, and getting into something better, I made it a point to start things anew and make a better effort to make connections with people I didn't know previously.

But I find myself backsliding in the past couple of weeks, and eating lunch alone and spending most of the day by myself.

I could blame the fact that most of the immediate people around me all go to lunch at different times and by themselves, but that's just an excuse.

I was meeting a few people that I'd been introduced to slightly and sitting with them, but lately I've seen neither hide nor hair of them during lunch, and I don't know them well enough to track them down without seeming pushy and bothersome.

So I must redouble my efforts to meet new people, and strike up conversations with strangers. I'm not comfortable with it, or any good at it, but I wont get any better unless I keep working at it.

There, that was a lot less whiney than the first time.