Last night, at the first San Francisco reading for She’s Such a Geek, a snippet of conversation went something like this:
Annalee: Kristin, your recent blog posts have been great! We’re looking forward to more!
Me, with a shrug*: Aw, well, I’m just picking at a wound that’s been festering for the past ten years.
Annalee: Well, if that’s the case, then let the blog be your lance!
And you know, Annalee had taken the metaphor about as far as it could go.
But I should have known that a woman who wrote an entire book about monsters and capitalism would have some grotesque imagery at her fingertips to parry with.
I will blog more about last night’s reading later….
*Of course, from all those years of being called a brain accusatorily as if it were a crime, I learned to be modest and self-deprecating about receiving compliments. Part of the acculturation!
Wow. I just had a small epiphany inspired by your footnote. “Being called a brain as if it were a crime.” That’s it exactly. I wasn’t really teased or taunted (well, maybe a little), but simply accused. “Oh, she’s such a brain,” they’d say. As if that’s all there was to me. I did the modest and self-deprecating thing, too. Again, wow. I thought I’d come to terms with my whole geeky childhood, but I guess there are some things still unexamined.