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AWOL from LJ again, I'm so sorry. Just work, really, piling up as it is wont to do.
I hope all my fellow Midwesterners are safe and not too soggy.
Hee, nobody correctly guessed my 9th-grade (last year of jr. high in my school district) yearbook superlative from this post.
The correct answer is "Wittiest." Yes, I have always been a smartass. It's so central to my view of the world, if I were stripped down to a brain in a jar, it would be a smart-aleck brain. My greatest defense mechanism in childhood was to confuse adults by trapping them in a conflicted state: rage over my smart-mouth, but grudging admiration that I was clever and had good timing. (My dad taught me how to do this in a sink-or-swim sort of way.) When I started school, they tried to instill in me the idea that what adults said was sacrosanct and shouldn't be snarked, but this was so utterly foreign to my home training that by kindergarten it was already too late to introduce such nonsensical notions and have them sink in.
As an adult, if I have any claim to what is unhelpfully called being "a strong person," it's in my ability to find comic perspective on most things fairly quickly.
I hope all my fellow Midwesterners are safe and not too soggy.
Hee, nobody correctly guessed my 9th-grade (last year of jr. high in my school district) yearbook superlative from this post.
The correct answer is "Wittiest." Yes, I have always been a smartass. It's so central to my view of the world, if I were stripped down to a brain in a jar, it would be a smart-aleck brain. My greatest defense mechanism in childhood was to confuse adults by trapping them in a conflicted state: rage over my smart-mouth, but grudging admiration that I was clever and had good timing. (My dad taught me how to do this in a sink-or-swim sort of way.) When I started school, they tried to instill in me the idea that what adults said was sacrosanct and shouldn't be snarked, but this was so utterly foreign to my home training that by kindergarten it was already too late to introduce such nonsensical notions and have them sink in.
As an adult, if I have any claim to what is unhelpfully called being "a strong person," it's in my ability to find comic perspective on most things fairly quickly.
