A New Identity

Hey, so maybe what I need is this new cool, Kung-Fu, on-the-down-low, secret identity, an identity where I'm much cooler than I am in real life. Like wouldn't it be cool if, instead of being a potentially stodgy old-maid English teacher, I were a private eye? That would be kick-ass! And I could follow people around, I don't know, Santa Barbara or wherever, posing as a crocheting whatever, because that's what I do too. And I pick Santa Barbara because that's where Sue Grafton's Kenzie what's-her-name lives.

Or maybe I could be, I don't know, a performance artist of some sort. Becuase I have all these ideas for what I think would make for interesting performance art, and most of them involve inactments of the Grimm's fairy tales, with the intention of removing the pink-Disney-sugar coating of what we call fairy tales. That would be like a cool, underground, alternate life to have.

I found out recently that T., a friend and co-worker of mine, happened to interview at the same small, liberal arts college in Virginia that I interviewed at a couple of years ago. I believe that there's this weird, alternate universe where T. and I are friends but both work at the college in Virginia. Only we're much less happy than we are now at C.

And then, there's this really weird alternate reality, Bizarro World, really, where I used to be married to Huell Howser. But that would be weird enough to warrant its own post.