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Aug. 20th, 2010 05:16 amSometimes I like dressing up - well, for a little bit, anyway - just like sometimes I like being social. I had fun putting on makeup and nail polish for Meet the Teacher (it sounds like a game show, doesn't it?), wearing my hair down (which hardly ever happens, particularly in this heat) and just in general trying to look more like a PTA mom (which oddly enough, I seem to be) and less like an androgynous geek.
But here's the thing...I am an androgynous geek. And considering I know a lot of them on the internet, I can't figure out for the life of me why there seem to be none at my kids' school. Part of it is maybe that people like me usually don't become parents...but parenting is such a huge part of my life. Probably bigger than the writing nerdy part. So in a very real sense that is who I am...the PTA mom is who I am. Scary stuff, I know. :-)
I really love being social with people I know well. But interacting with teachers (and I used to be one), with other, more traditional PTA moms...by the end of the afternoon, I was just cranky and tired and melancholy.
I fell asleep putting Daniel to bed - I think he was still talking, even - and so I'm up now at 5:30 am. I've been poking around online and staring at this empty box for a while, trying to find the words to put in it.
Sometimes...I just don't feel like I fit anywhere. I know there are people who care about me, though, and that's a good thing and I don't want to minimize it. And I also think that this feeling is probably part of the human condition, that we all get it from time to time.
But it's still 5am and I can't sleep. And I feel a little melancholy and less-than right now.
I'm not a gamer like a lot of you. I'm not a techie or a Trekkie or really part of anything fandom-related at all. Though I enjoy, say, Avatar: The Last Airbender or Harry Potter or Phineas and Ferb or Mythbusters or ST...dude, I watch these shows with my kids.
Mostly I like words and telling stories, either collaboratively or on my own. Mostly, I like baking and cooking (this last is new) and growing herbs (the legal kind) and walking my dog and reading New Age foma that I know the rest of you wouldn't touch. I love music and singing and karaoke, but I'm not a trained singer. I just like it.
I'm not normal enough to be normal and weird enough to be weird. Sometimes - maybe most of the time - I like who I am just fine.
But this morning I feel a little broken. Maybe more sleep will fix it.
But here's the thing...I am an androgynous geek. And considering I know a lot of them on the internet, I can't figure out for the life of me why there seem to be none at my kids' school. Part of it is maybe that people like me usually don't become parents...but parenting is such a huge part of my life. Probably bigger than the writing nerdy part. So in a very real sense that is who I am...the PTA mom is who I am. Scary stuff, I know. :-)
I really love being social with people I know well. But interacting with teachers (and I used to be one), with other, more traditional PTA moms...by the end of the afternoon, I was just cranky and tired and melancholy.
I fell asleep putting Daniel to bed - I think he was still talking, even - and so I'm up now at 5:30 am. I've been poking around online and staring at this empty box for a while, trying to find the words to put in it.
Sometimes...I just don't feel like I fit anywhere. I know there are people who care about me, though, and that's a good thing and I don't want to minimize it. And I also think that this feeling is probably part of the human condition, that we all get it from time to time.
But it's still 5am and I can't sleep. And I feel a little melancholy and less-than right now.
I'm not a gamer like a lot of you. I'm not a techie or a Trekkie or really part of anything fandom-related at all. Though I enjoy, say, Avatar: The Last Airbender or Harry Potter or Phineas and Ferb or Mythbusters or ST...dude, I watch these shows with my kids.
Mostly I like words and telling stories, either collaboratively or on my own. Mostly, I like baking and cooking (this last is new) and growing herbs (the legal kind) and walking my dog and reading New Age foma that I know the rest of you wouldn't touch. I love music and singing and karaoke, but I'm not a trained singer. I just like it.
I'm not normal enough to be normal and weird enough to be weird. Sometimes - maybe most of the time - I like who I am just fine.
But this morning I feel a little broken. Maybe more sleep will fix it.