Rio, lots of people worry about looking stupid. It's a very common fear. It turns out that most people aren't paying attention to us, though. Everyone else is focused on their own thoughts and their own fears.

I'm sure you'll be fine with taking the bus once you get used to it. I would probably be nervous about taking trains because we don't have trains where I live. I spent some time living in Toronto and I remember being very nervous about taking the subway the first few times because I had never done it before. Once I got the hang of it, I was fine though.

It's just fear of the unknown... and once you do it a few times it won't be the unknown any more. It will build your confidence and you'll be less scared to try new things in the future.

Make sure you let us all know how it goes.

P.S. I still love Duran Duran. Have you ever been to one of their shows? I haven't, but it's on my list of must-do's. One of my life-long friends who was as ga-ga over them as I was when we were in junior high saw them live a couple of years ago and she was blown away. She put it at the top of her list of best live shows ever.

P.P.S. On the subject of looking stupid. I'm one of those people who is very book-smart and very competent professionally, but I'm a bit of a spaz. I've gone to work with my dress inside out, my skirt on backwards, or wearing one black boot and one brown boot on numerous occasions. I'm not a morning person. I'm still half-asleep when I'm getting ready for work. More than once, I've showed up with the pattern of my quilt imprinted on my face from a particularly deep sleep and I have accidentally signed professional e-mails with lots of x's and o's (because that's how I sign e-mails to friends). So, I look stupid on a regular basis. People laugh with me, though, because I'm good at laughing at myself. Colleagues and friends just call those things my "blonde moments." I'm not even a real blonde though. LOL. So, I don't have much fear of looking stupid -- I've done it so often and I'm sure I will continue to do it. It's okay to not be perfect.