Not Like Other Girls: What's Good To Know About Me

I am five feet, ten inches tall.
I believe that true power comes from within. No one has power over you, you have power over no one else. There is a difference between conquering oneself and mastering oneself.
I was raised on comic books and science fiction. I have seen every single episode of the Original Star Trek, Star Trek: TNG and Deep Space Nine. I have know all of the first three Star Wars Movies by heart. I can safely say that I have read over 20,000 comic books in my life. As far as I am concerned, my mom raised me right because she taught me that it was ok to be an adult with an imagination.
There have only been exactly six people in my life that I call friend. Four of them I have met this past year. One of them doesn't even know it yet.
I was an unpopular nerd for about 90% of my thirty years of life, and now people like me. Don't ask me why, I couldn't tell you.
I refuse to call myself "black" I am mocha, perhaps roasted honey or cosmic latte.
I worked at the 50th Anniversary of Superman and Comic Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Artist George Perez drew a Father's Day Card for my dad. My dad was speechless.
I don't believe that Space is the final frontier. The mind is. We will understand the intricacies of space, the awesome spectacles of the cosmos long before we understand the human brain and what it is capable of.
I listen to everything from Mozart to Marilyn Manson to Metallica.
I looked forward to my 30th birthday because I never thought I would live to see it.
I am a vocal mimic. I can imitate a broad range of accents and speech affectations, and certain musical/vocal stylings.
I think that the difference between True Culture and Pop Culture is that True Culture tries to be thought provoking and as a result becomes controversial. Pop culture tries to be controversial and subsequently fails at being thought provoking.
I have never given a tarot card reading that wasn't one hundred percent accurate, to the most insignificant detail. Anyone who has ever asked me to read for them has been cautioned to make sure that they want the answers to the question that they ask. Every one of them has been told that there are choices that they can make to avoid the outcomes of the readings. None of them have ever taken me seriously, and all have later regretted it.
I know the secret to reading other people's minds.
I can sing in Gaelic, although I have yet to learn to speak the language.
I count meeting Stan Lee among the happiest moments of my life He was the nicest man you could ever hope to meet. He reminded me alot of my great grandfather.
I think about things that most people never dream of.
I know all the words to the song "Yakko's World" from Animaniacs.
I believe that imagination and not fact is the foundation for reality.
I think that all facts are really possibilities. Possibly the most likely of possibilities, but possibilities nonetheless.
The second that I realized that what I looked like had nothing to do with the person that I really was, that what made me attractive to people was who I was, I lost over thirty pounds and three dress sizes.
I believe that what separates humans from lesser animals is laughter.
I memorize books and movies. Not intentionally.
I watch Cartoons, Emeril Live, The Naked Chef/Oliver's Twist, Law and Order reruns and the Discovery Channel/Learning Channel/Animal Planet almost exclusively.
I have arrived at a theory of the nature of the universe and how it works.
I speak in quotes and movie scenes.
I think that I have found the key principles to constructing the Unified Theory.
I like the movie "Dune" directed by David Lynch to the point of creating callbacks.
I am steadfastly resisting buying a DVD player simply because I don't like the idea of my video collection becoming obsolete.
I like my glasses better than I like contact lenses.
I despised physics in High School, but I have recently come to believe that Netwon's Theory of Gravity is wrong.
I want to be a Powerpuff Girl.
I have precognitive dreams, I can do psychic readings of people without tarot cards, runes, I-Ching, horoscopes or any other instruments of divination.
My favorite toys are stuffed animals.
I think that the greatest things ever written are "Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach, "The Tao Te Ching" by Lao Tzu, "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White, "The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice, "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe and "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak.
I think that as long as people cling to concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, order and chaos they will be forever blind to the wonders of the Universe.
I work in Administrative Support because being in theater in High School taught me that it is better to be behind the scenes.
There is no one true god, nor one true religion, there are only expressions of a larger idea.
I think that Eminem is a genius.
I download MP3's, but I still buy the CD's. I have a personal ethical objection, however, to downloading movies off of the internet that are still in the theaters.
I think that Self-destruction is an attempt to destroy the ego self in order to foster personal growth. Unfortunately, most people fail to realize that any attempts to stop destruction before it runs its course will only impede the cycle and creation will never be realized.
I believe that Space, time and distance are all illusions.
I believe that everything that was, is and will be exists simultaneously. It is our minds that force events into the perception of a chronological order.
Cheesecake, not chocolate, is the food of the gods.
I might actually be mildly insane.
I believe that divinity exists in the mind of man.
I believe that the ability to love is the greatest power in the world. The ability to love oneself doubly so.
Everything that I believe may be wrong.
I take nothing seriously, least of all myself.

Off to the Left of the Hot Chick

You probably don't even notice me - I'm easy to overlook. I am usually the one sitting off to the left of the Hot Chick the guys have been ogling since she walked through the door. Not that I am ugly - maybe carrying a few more pounds than I'd like to, but I have a pretty face, a smile tinged in equal measure with sweetness and mystery, and a strange sense of humour that often accompanies the eccentricities that those of us off to the left of the hot chick tend to be given to. If you are comparing me to her however, I might as well be wall board. After all, I tend to be the one clinging to the lower rungs of the social ladder. I was the smart one in high school, the shy, awkward one in the glasses who watched sci-fi movies, was always counted as one of the guys and played D & D on the weekends. I was the one who woke up every morning wishing that I were someone else...why would you see me?

The funny thing is, somewhere along the way I stopped waking up wanting to be someone else. I mean, really, I sort of had fun being one of the guys - I got to see a side of them that the Hot Chick never did. I got to see them in their moments of insecurity bandaged by false bravado. I learned how most guys aren't all NASCAR and football - although I learned enough about those things from the guys who were - Some are poets and artists and writers and musicians and dads and computer nerds and everything else lacking overt machismo. Some guys are dark and mysterious Lestat types who talk existentialism and philosophy and physics or they skateboard and can kick ass at Metal Gear Solid. Some guys like girls who do those things, too. Or, at the very least won't think that they are silly because they do them.

Some guys want someone who can teach them things, or who they can teach new things to - whether it be playing the guitar, or how to get your feet under you in a pair of rollerblades, or how to give stellar oral sex. Others may want a girl with a wild side that pops out at the oddest times - a girl who won't get squeamish at the sight of toys and handcuffs. A girl who might even enjoy them.

Or, maybe some guys just want a girl who can be herself.

Of course, such a girl tends to be difficult to find...or, at the very least difficult to see.

Why?

Because we're usually off to the left of the Hot Chick.