Hey get your mind out of the gutter, I totally don’t mean that way! Nope, you see it’s Monday, so I’m once again copying inspired by Anna over at abdpbt, which lucky for you means yay a list!
May I present the top 5 reasons I’m totally a fake…
- I was an English major in college, but the truth is I hate Shakespeare, detest Dickens, don’t care for Hemingway, and loathed the pretentious bullshit of most of the other undergrads in my program. Please don’t take away my diploma! I just liked to read, and thought 4 years of that would be cool. I actually ended up specializing in what my program called Minority and Outsider lit, and I loved every single solitary class about a thousand times more than the 4 semesters of Shakespeare I had to take, or the 2 of Milton.
- I’m a marketing professional who never took a marketing class in my life (see English major, above). All on the job training baby. And often without supervision.
- I’m a music geek who can’t read music. Never could–when I took piano, followed by flute, I’d memorize music. Part of why I never advanced very far…stupid sight reading tests.
- I’m married to, and hang out with a lot of creative folk. I even manage to make myself sound like I know what I’m talking about a lot of the time that I’m with them. But I, I am not creative. I’m actually pretty cut and dry boring square by the book. I tend to look at the world with an analytical not creative eye. And I tend to filter my world through the realist, the by the rules, the plain-jane lens. I like to pretend otherwise though (see here.)
- Despite my fears of joining in on already established blog relationships (see here), I’m pretty much still inserting myself wherever I think it will benefit me looks interesting. As evidenced by this post.
Thanks Anna, for once again providing me with a foolproof idea for my Monday!
Great list! I like that title “minority and outsider lit.” LOL. They might as well call it “insignificant and irrelevant lit,” that’s what it sounds like when you say “outsider.”
I’m not a huge fan of Shakespeare or Milton, either, but I like having read them, if that makes sense. Like I’m in on the joke or something, I guess.
Dude I got all my communications training on the job too. All my friends who focused on school and not internships had such a hassle getting a job out of college where I at least got interviews.
OMG! If I have to read Steinbeck again I’ll slit my wrists.
I’m a librarian. People think we read this sh*t all the time. Personally, I’m a romance novel fan myself. How shallow of me.
I am so an artist wanna be.
Oh, I forgot Steinbeck. I liked parts of some of his books…but that’s about it.
You had me laughing at your number 1!! Do you know the major with the most basket cases are in Psychology. *Raises hand* Yup, that’s me!
I loved your list and wanted to say I admire your ability to put a list like this out there for all to see. As someone who is very new to blogging and still figuring it all out I struggle sometimes with whether I want to write certain things that I wouldn’t normally want family, friends or coworkers to know. Maybe I shouldn’t have told them about my blog. 🙂
And also wanted to say I’m in love with your banner image! Did you design that yourself?
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