December 12
Realizations
Funny how long it takes people to realize certain things.
It's taken me 12 years to realize I didn't want to become a musician, 3 years to realize I didn't want to become an engineer, and 2 years to realize I can never become a mad mathematician. I've spent the past 6 years trying not to be put into categories, and I thought with my background it shouldn't be hard to stay away from any category. This past Sunday though, Nic's father's passing comment brilliantly put me into one I didn't even know existed.
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you Anita, a typical TCK.
Here's what Wiki's got to say - Third Culture Kids (abbreviated TCKs or 3CKs or Global Nomad) "refers to someone who [as a child] has spent a significant period of time in one or more culture(s) other than his or her own, thus integrating elements of those cultures and their own birth culture, into a third culture.
What the hell? They even have a category for that?
Alright, that isn't that bad of a category... and it wasn't that shocking of a self-realization, compared to what Nic had to go through.
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you Nic, who is 1/4 Jewish.
Nic turned 29 last week. On saturday he had a somewhat questionable haircut. This is what happened when he examined his side profile:
nic: "do I have an aquiline nose?"
me: "you mean that can be something other than an aquiline nose?"
nic: "have I always had it?"
me: "yup..."
nic: "Damn! I always thought my nose is straight."
I was at a lost, not knowing whether I should comfort him or give him a whack in the head. Then I started examining my own nose:
me: "I'll still love you, you know?"
nic: "..."
me: "My nose isn't straight either anyway."
nic: "I know."
me: "What do you mean you know. Is my snub nose that obvious?"
nic: "No."
me: "Good."
nic: "No it's obvious you don't have a snub nose. You have a snubby nose that isn't upturned."
me: "So it turns up or down?"
nic: "It's like a little S curve, you know? Turns up near the top, and turns down on the snub."
me: "... yeah, with a zero in between, huh?"
Great. Nic realized he has aquiline nose after 29 years. I realized I have an S-curve-snubby nose after 24 years. Oh and we're both TCKs.
It's taken me 12 years to realize I didn't want to become a musician, 3 years to realize I didn't want to become an engineer, and 2 years to realize I can never become a mad mathematician. I've spent the past 6 years trying not to be put into categories, and I thought with my background it shouldn't be hard to stay away from any category. This past Sunday though, Nic's father's passing comment brilliantly put me into one I didn't even know existed.
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you Anita, a typical TCK.
Here's what Wiki's got to say - Third Culture Kids (abbreviated TCKs or 3CKs or Global Nomad) "refers to someone who [as a child] has spent a significant period of time in one or more culture(s) other than his or her own, thus integrating elements of those cultures and their own birth culture, into a third culture.
What the hell? They even have a category for that?
Alright, that isn't that bad of a category... and it wasn't that shocking of a self-realization, compared to what Nic had to go through.
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you Nic, who is 1/4 Jewish.
Nic turned 29 last week. On saturday he had a somewhat questionable haircut. This is what happened when he examined his side profile:
nic: "do I have an aquiline nose?"
me: "you mean that can be something other than an aquiline nose?"
nic: "have I always had it?"
me: "yup..."
nic: "Damn! I always thought my nose is straight."
I was at a lost, not knowing whether I should comfort him or give him a whack in the head. Then I started examining my own nose:
me: "I'll still love you, you know?"
nic: "..."
me: "My nose isn't straight either anyway."
nic: "I know."
me: "What do you mean you know. Is my snub nose that obvious?"
nic: "No."
me: "Good."
nic: "No it's obvious you don't have a snub nose. You have a snubby nose that isn't upturned."
me: "So it turns up or down?"
nic: "It's like a little S curve, you know? Turns up near the top, and turns down on the snub."
me: "... yeah, with a zero in between, huh?"
Great. Nic realized he has aquiline nose after 29 years. I realized I have an S-curve-snubby nose after 24 years. Oh and we're both TCKs.
December 04
morning!
Wow, this is about as bad as you can start a day.
- Sore shoulder from sleeping funny.
- Sore ankles from a whole weekend of walking.
- Cold tea.
- No breakfast.
- Knocked over and broke the bottle of tabasco sauce that I've used only once.
- Got the tabasco sauce all over the pair of pants that I put on for the first time after I bought them.
and you think your Monday sucks, huh?
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