Should I be worried that my main forms of social interaction are playing Dungeons & Dragons and World of Warcraft? I suppose this is only slightly worse than other grad students, who mostly only hang out with other students in their department, but I'm still concerned. It helps that my husband participates in these activities with me; and hell, it's honestly better than sitting in front of the TV all day. At least this way I have some sort of contact with other human beings. Hell, I've been in my WoW guild for a year and a half now, my guild leader and his girlfriend came to my wedding, I have college friends in the guild, and I would really call several of the people in there my friends. Dungeons & Dragons is even better – I meet every Sunday with physical human beings, and we eat, drink, and chat while playing a game together. That's not so bad, right? We're all pretty normal, well-adjusted human beings with lives and significant others and jobs...well, except for me and the other grad student. But still. After being in this town for 5 months and not managing to make any friends outside of my D&D group, I'm afraid I'm forced to rate my social skills as FAIL. I've never been great at making friends, it always just either happens or it doesn't. I've never been able to force it. As a result, I know nothing about any other the people in my department. The whole thing is quite disconcerting. You'd think that friendship would come naturally to a group of people with one very important life-long interest in common. In some places, and for some people, I'm sure it does.
Perhaps yet another clue that I'm in the wrong program at the wrong school?
