Meditation has been very helpful with the mask claustrophobia. It seriously sucks, but it's gotten better.

Hahaha. I wouldn't have pegged you as Viking either. I suppose the fact that you're so tall adds to that? Once when I was a teller forever ago, this lady came up to my window and started talking really fast in Japanese. Me: *blink* Her: "Wait - aren't you Japanese?" XD Rachel gets mistaken for Korean quite a bit and it baffles her.