Wow...thank you all for replying. I also find it much easier to comminicate through writing rather then face-to-face. It seems less "on the spot." I think that, for me, it's because I can sit and think about what I want to say, whereas when with "real people" (for lack of a better term, I guess) my mind tends to go blank, and with that comes the obligatory stumbling over words and the panicky shaky feeling.

To Heatherm--> You're in Pictou? I'm on Cape Breton Island, a few steps short of Victoria County, but technically in the CBRM. This is pretty coincidental, because I haven't ever met anyone from Nova Scotia online before.