Introductions

Introductions are a curious thing. Summarizing all the bits and bobbles you're made out of is daunting. Take for instance the opening questions regarding interests. Questions like, "What are you into?" and "What do you enjoy?" in particular are like a booby trap! Unless you're an international spy, the leader of a successful free love revolution, or an especially articulate octopus with internet access, you're destined for failure upon answering. "Reading, writing, cooking, eating, spending time with family and friends..." Yea, you and every other non-octopus.

So here I am wondering how best to go about introducing myself to you without pigeonholing myself. Lying was an option. ("I'm a professional hang-glider. I've bottle-fed a grizzly bear cub who is now my closest friend. My Scrabble skills are legendary, and a frequent topic of conversation as far south as Paraguay!) But that breaks an unspoken blogging vow of honesty meant to exist between the writer and the reader.

Truth is I wouldn't know my ass from someone else's elbow on a hang glider. I've never even encountered a bear that wasn't stuffed or part of a zoo exhibit. Worst of all, my Scrabble skills are barely known past Venezuela. I hope you'll still accept me for who I am.

I'm sure there's got to be a better way to go about introducing oneself. In fact, let's pioneer a whole new way of assessing someone newly met! Try this. Upon meeting someone simply assume, without any evidence to suggest as much, that they are wicked awesome (or for those readers not located in New England "super awesome"). Actually, let's start using this revolutionary new method slowly. And by slowly I mean just in regards to me.

What's that, you say?
I'm wicked and/or super awesome?
How delightful!