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[rebness]

I'm struggling to paint myself as normal at work. Whenever people ask me what I did for my weekend, answers such as 'trolling and writing slashfic' don't really go down well. Still, my colleagues are pretty nice and we like to chatter first thing of a morning.

I ended up sending a mortified e-mail to mothergoddamn yesterday when I managed to turn even that into something weird:


Costs guy (to secretary): So, who do you think's the worst dictator?
Me: Stalin, surely! He killed so many of his own people! *geeky readiness to recount entire life story*
Costs guy: That's great, but I meant dictation-wise.


I keep doing stuff like this! I clearly need to be surrounded by angry Catalans again: they always want to discuss history and war.

To be fair, Costs Guy also loves history and literature. He just plays better at hiding his ennui. :D


ETA: 
THIS IS MY LAST POST IN WHICH I AM TWENTYSOMETHING. WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT OMG OMG! Stay tuned for talk of mortgages and ~This Life~. Mwah!

Comments

[lovingyouin1963.livejournal.com]

Is your birthday tomorrow? Mine is :)

...as for the work thing, I totally understand about the geeking and trying to be normal. I'm beginning to give up, seriously!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Mine's actually on Friday, but I'll be without my lovely internet tomorrow, so this is my last post before then. Happy birthday to you, fellow Aquarian! :D

I hear you on the people at work. I think now they're finally getting my ~cold reserve~ and like that? Or they're scared, whichevs.

[lovingyouin1963.livejournal.com]

TY ♥ & a Happy Birthday to you tomorrow :)

I think you pretty much nailed it!

[ozfille]

50+ and mortgage free and will remain so. *g* It is not compulsory.

[rebness.livejournal.com]

I certainly hope so! I will never be responsible enough with my money for a mortgage. The world's too exciting!

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

Once you reach a certain point in your life, its too hard to hide the geekiness, you gotta embrace it. The people who want to come along for the ride will....hopefully some of them will be cute guys.

Mortgages *lol*

[rebness.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome philosophy. I approve! <3

[pointedulac.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[i-sanguinity.livejournal.com]

I struggle with that too -- how to tell people I had a great weekend when a big part of what made it great was writing a bunch of drabbles and reading awesome L/N slashfic? *sigh* Still, I'm lucky that, in my own workplace, I fall in the middle of the pack where geekdom is concerned. There are more mainstreamish people there, and also much bigger nerds than myself, which is a comfort (and part of the reason I enjoy editorial work, because it seems to draw a rather proudly geeky sort of personality more often than not).

ALSO, HOLY CRAP--HAPPY THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY, BB!!! (A little early yet, I know, but I don't wanna miss out if you're not going to be around LJ for a few days!) I hope you have a fantabulous time celebrating, and that nary a whiff of mortages or retirement accounts or orthotic shoe inserts muddles up this journal for quite a while yet. :P

[pointedulac.livejournal.com]

I have just started telling my coworkers that I was writing Lestat for President stuff. LOL. Two of them are nerds who understand and one of them tried to judge me until I learned he'd been a Vampire LARP a few years ago. Take that!

To the higher ups, well.. I'd never tell them I write Vampire Silliness but...

[iskra667.livejournal.com]

LOL! Welcome to the boring and depressingly dull real world dear :) When I landed my first real job 5 years ago, I was all innocent and starry eyed, the first time I noticed something was wrong was when I had to decline going to the pub because I had already bought a cinema ticket and my boss asked me what I was going to see and I said 'the life of Truman Capote' and he stared at me like I had just landed from a flying saucer! :D

So now they get the polite cold reserve most of the time, or the blond bimbo act so I stay under the radar (one very useful thing to know about corporate mentality is that you'll get away with much more if people think you're stupid that if they think you don't suscribe to the bullshit). And once in a while when I'm really bored or I've had a drink, I have a bit a fun unsettling them. Like tonight I had a nice LOL moment telling a bunch of guys I drove to downtown Detroit on Sunday to see some raw art place, and they've liked lived there for years and only been to the local mall.

But most of the time, it's better to shut up, smile and cash the salary.

[saffronlie.livejournal.com]

Tell them that you maintain a community for the purposes of discussing cute boys. That's what my boyfriend thinks. I tell elaborate stories about friending memes to find other users who like cute boys, and about the time I had to tell someone off for making an off-topic post that wasn't about cute boys.

You're gonna be so old, OMG! Time to start drinking gin and looking into incontinence aids.

[pointedulac.livejournal.com]

Before I knew my core coworkers well, I would tell them I was in an online "writing" group and we worked on writing projects together and edited each other and such. Hahaha.

[i-sanguinity.livejournal.com]

I've gotten away with that sort of thing, and with "I'm part of this sort of book club online; we all like similar novels and so we chat about them sometimes," or the like. It's funny how little you have to actually say to satisfy people's surface curiosity.

[ukashi-goshi.livejournal.com]

Oh my love, I have a great quote for you from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay:

"People only notice what you tell them to notice, and then only if you remind them."

The older I get, the more I realize how easy it is to pass for normal (even though I'm probably only getting weirder, lol) - because most people are too busy with themselves to give a shit! That, and people mostly hear what they expect to hear anyway.

But yes, I totally hear you on being a geeky fic!junky. Nobody knows what I write. >:)

And in case you're offline on Friday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :) I hope you have a fabulous day, with minimal freakouts and lots of good partying.

[diana-molloy.livejournal.com]

Heh, at least you're not trying to avoid people knowing you're a sexual deviant. "what did you do this weekend" and it's been TG I try to just say the venue and hope some smartass doesn't pipe up realising what it is. I don't even touch the fact that I'll be working part of the night most months and that my job involves limiting how many people enter a room to fuck, then going in and looking around every 30m or so to make sure everyone is safe and alright. I don't care about people knowing as much as I can do without the judgement, ta. ~cool~ and ambiguous it is, then!

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

*dies*

Happy pre-birthday! :D

[mothergoddamn.livejournal.com]

THIRTY?

[theroseandsword.livejournal.com]

This .gif is like my new favorite thing.

[ex-amecia-m.livejournal.com]

Have a great birthday! :D

I know what you mean about trying to hide the geekiness - I'm the same but I slip up here and there too!

[ashling-c.livejournal.com]

That is the funniest thing I've read in a long time!

Happy Birthday x

Happy Belated Birthday :)

[valoa.livejournal.com]

I haven't got access to LJ till today :D
Best wishes :D

[jadedscorpion.livejournal.com]

I should offer a Happy Belated Birthday--hope it was good!

I try to hide my fan-nerd too. I'd desperately love to talk to someone in real life about stuff. There's a woman at work who started reading a certain book series of dead white guys with fangs and thinks they are the best thing ever, but she's horribly evil and mean so we can never have a civil conversation unfortunately. :(

Maybe it's cause I'm an American that I often try to start arguments/discussion of stuff just for the sheer fun of debating. Though most of my co-workers are such hopeless idiots it's pointless, and all my friends have move far away to actually, you know, find jobs.

They can tell you all about some "Teen Mom" show, but have no knowledge of anything. "The state south of North Dakota is South Carolina". "I thought Europe was a country." "Why is the sky blue, the grass green, the sun yellow? These are the great unanswerable questions of life. (I choked--"But we KNOW the answers to all those!" I tried to explain and they insisted I was lying.)

Though I see some old ladies who dye their hair rainbow colors, wear Christmas sweaters year round, and make purses out of old magazine covers (they actually look pretty cool), who just do and say whatever the heck they want to anyone they want. It's the only thing to look forward to about old age.