An egghead and her twinz
Here we are in the Cozy Room doing Virtual Oscar Tango with our friends of porterization. Look at my covid hair 
You can’t see the Porters because our free Zoom session had just timed out. I think we need to switch back to FaceTime but who am iiiii?
The UU called me an Egghead this afternoon. I cracked up. Yes, I am an egghead. When I was a teenager that’s just about the last thing I wanted to be called. All I wanted was to be cooooool and have a boyfriend, etc. Well, I did have a couple of boyfriends during those years but I was never really cooooool as a high school kid.
What I was, was an egghead. Like practicing flute/piano for hours on end. The flute (my major instrument) practicing started with tone exercises, then Taffanel-Gaubert Exercices (scales/arpeggios etc.), then some etudes, and then whatever repertoire I was working on or just playing through because I loved it all so much. Bach, Telemann, French virtuoso stuff, esoteric 20th century stuff, and whatever else.
I did math stuff too, like working through my dad’s ANCIENT analytical geometry book PLUS taking every math class I could my hands on. That stopped before calculus in my high school, which I longed to study. I did take Calc 1 in college. I aced it but at that point, spending time on both math and music was not compatible with getting enough sleep (and partying ).
I am a “retired” musician but I have spent my adult life in and out of the computer biz. During my boring Childhood Career, which began with me pulling people’s printouts off a “Data 100” printer, I taught myself Fortran… … … In my non-boring Adult Career I don’t hand people their printouts. In fact I rarely even use printers any more.
I wouldn’t call myself popular these days but there are probably people who might argue with me and I have had my moments. I hereby PROUDLY proclaim myself an egghead. It’s a badge of honor that I wish I could’ve embraced as a teenager. Women can do ALL kinds of jobs including techie type things. I am one of them. Let’s go girls. We are cooooool!
October 15th, 2022 at 11:09 am
I went into a traditional career for women so I can’t imagine the issues for those who didn’t. I was called a “brain” in high school which reduced me to my good grades and nerdy intellectualism. No one would call me that now!
October 17th, 2022 at 5:57 pm
It does look like there was a seat reorganization in this photo. The middle seat seems to be the same however. At least we can tell who’s who by the hat!