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That came from a 1960 paper on space travel, because, if you think about it, space is pretty awkward.

They have to go through their primary one, that's already awkward, and then they go through their second self's adolescence, and that's even more awkward because there's an actual history of what they've gone through online.

And anybody coming in new to technology is an adolescent online right now, and so it's very awkward, and it's very difficult for them to do those things.

These three girls are talking to one another without the awkward discomfort of eye contact.

I mean, it's a little awkward at times, but you should see my credit rating.

Now, I come from a very data-centric reality, so we don't want that teacher to even go and intervene and have to ask the kid awkward questions: "What don't you understand?

But the shooting day would end, and I'd return to my gnarly, awkward self.

I want to say that really and truly, after these incredible speeches and ideas that are being spread, I am in the awkward position of being here to talk to you today about television.

Camilla and I have now been to other organizations to talk about the toolkit and how it can help to guide through what, quite frankly, are otherwise some pretty awkward conversations.

So, option one is to ignore the assumption and allow folks to continue to refer to me as "mom," which is not awkward for the other party, but is typically really awkward for us.

Or they respond by apologizing profusely because they feel bad or awkward or guilty or weird.

Bicycles fly everywhere, wheels roll past you, spokes end up in awkward places.

There are those individuals that if you observe them in their school, you see them running the periphery fence all the school day if you let them, to those individuals who cannot stop coming to you and trying to engage you repeatedly, relentlessly, but often in an awkward fashion, without that immediate resonance.

It shows how to do right, how to be heroically awkward.

It could get awkward, right?

And it leads to very awkward situations.

Instead, these laws and laws around the world use the rather awkward analogy of property.

You know, we're interested in, like, you know — (Laughter) — an awkward interaction, or a smile, or a contemptuous glance, or maybe a very awkward wink, or maybe even something like a handshake.

Not the ones for your kids, but the one you had as a child, where your parents come to school and your teacher talks to your parents, and it's a little bit awkward.

And that's kind of awkward.

If you went over and you helped yourself to a shrimp off your boss' plate, for example, that would be an awkward situation.

Or if a dinner guest after the meal pulled out his wallet and offered to pay you for the meal, that would be rather awkward as well.

That was awkward.

Hopefully less awkward than that one in the middle.

I explain chemical equilibrium using analogies to awkward middle school dances, and I talk about fuel cells with stories about boys and girls at a summer camp.

At the time I was just beginning to emerge from this eight-year personal identity crisis zigzag that saw me go from being a boy to being this awkward girl that looked like a boy in girl's clothes to the opposite extreme of this super skimpy, over-compensating, boy-chasing girly-girl to finally just a hesitant exploration of what I actually was, a tomboyish girl who liked both boys and girls depending on the person.

You don't reach down like this; it's way too awkward.

And there was that same awkward silence from most of my classmates, until sitting next to me, one of my friends, one of the cool kids in class, Steven, leaned across and punched me really hard in the head.

After a kind of long, awkward period of time, Steve broke the silence.

Or, in my case, awkward and pathetic.

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