You'll recall I also made the salient point that the project would need a representative to act as its focal point. And I very decidedly made that person not me. I go to venues to work, not to —

[She falters, just for a second, not fast enough to catch the rest of her sentence before it leaves her mouth, but fast enough that she already knows it's a stupid thing to say to begin with.]

— be a part of them.

[Oof.]

I'm sure there's a girl somewhere in some world and some circumstances who's meant for a dress like that, but it isn't me. Things like that just...aren't.