Defining myself

I was struggling to think of something to put on my “About Me” page here. I want to think of something funky and esoteric, yet apt. It can be so hard to describe yourself! I don’t want to describe myself just in terms of what I do: I work at a library, I read a lot, I like to garden, I am married, I write poetry, etc.

Not that all of that isn’t part of who I am. It shapes me and is a reflection of me. But it isn’t me.

I am the girl who starts sentences with conjunctions. It’s not that I don’t know grammar…believe me, I know grammar! I just like to start sentences with conjunctions; I like to jump into things in media res.

I would say that my defining trait is intellectual curiosity. I am constantly learning, observing, questioning, and thinking. In a different time I might be called a bluestocking. I prefer to consider myself a Renaissance Girl–sort of like Thomas Jefferson except I support my cerebral life by working at a library instead of by farming with slaves and being President.

I am an introvert: I like to be in my own company. I am a contrary: I have to do things against the grain. I think in dialogue: there are usually two voices sorting the thoughts through my head.

As they say, “nothing is normal here.”