Posts Tagged ‘metablogging’
What is “normal”?
On this eve of the first of the new year, I get to opportunistically reflect on the things I have, the things I want, and my purpose in life. I’ve always wanted to be “normal” and have a “normal life” (though most people I know would laugh if they heard me saying that, since my life bears little resemblance to the boring slog that most people think of when they hear “normal” — something I think of more as “quiet desperation”).
Ever since I was a little kid, I didn’t fit in. I looked like a boy until I was 9 and had to get into the habit of asking for the “ladies’ room” because service staff always directed me to the men’s room. I was too tall. I had no friends. Kids made fun of me. I wouldn’t wear a “training” bra and ended up needing a real bra earlier than anyone else I knew. Boys would dare each other to ask me out and then run away laughing. I got picked last in any athletic event I was forced to participate in. “Normal” seemed like this unattainable golden state that everyone else existed in… so when I got to pick my name, I decided that, by hook or by crook, I was going to be normal.
And that’s how I got to be “Normal.” And it really fits me, I think, since I have a regular job that I go to every day at roughly the same time. I have fairly un-exceptional thoughts on a day-to-day basis. I’m not very fashionable, but I’m also not notably unfashionable. I have hobbies like normal people: hiking, camping, hanging out with friends, blogging, photography. Yes, some of my hobbies are un-normal: collecting taxidermy, listening to Cracker all the time, modeling for unconventional photos (right), camping in the desert and applying spark to combustibles.
One thing I think I want to look into for the new year is what really *is* “normal life.” I want it… but do I? And what is it to other people? So I’ve set up a Google alert and will set out to figure out what a normal life is. Wish me luck.
Written by normalslife
December 31, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Posted in blogging, bohemian culture, friends, health, home, life, Los Angeles, love, metablogging, money, music, self, the infernal television machine, work
Tagged with camping, cracker, explosives, friends, hiking, hobbies, job, metablogging, normal, normal life, photography, taxidermy, the great outdoors, what is normal, work
Cute Things Falling Asleep
From the site: Cutethingsfallingasleep.org
Written by normalslife
December 30, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Posted in blogging, metablogging
Tagged with cute, cute overload, cute things falling asleep, kittens, metablogging, puppies, sleepy