Funny pseudo-fame moment

[serene]

I've been on the Atheist Coalition email list for a long time, maybe a year or more. I've not made it to any meetings before last night, and there's been a running joke on the list that I'm not real.

Anyway, last night they asked new people to introduce themselves. Person 1 introduced zirself. Then Person 2. Then I said "I'm serene" and everyone gasped and applauded. It was so funny! I got all these recognition points just for being the girl who has never bothered to attend a meeting. ;-)

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

You should be applauded wherever you go. After all, it is all about you, you, you, right? ;)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*grin* That's what I keep trying to tell people!

(In seriousness, though, I have had moments of chagrin over starting that at the womboink. It really wasn't about me for me, and I felt kind of bad that the focus turned to me when people found out it was my birthday. I didn't think of it as a birthday gathering for me, but as a chance to meet all y'all, and the "All about me me me" was my way of defusing my embarrassment over being the center of attention. I think it was funny, but I've had occasional self-doubt over it.)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh, silly, we wanted it to be all about you :)

Don't have self-doubt over it, because anyone who knows you knows that it's done in jest. You're not self-centered enough for it to be serious ;)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Oh, but I *am*, Blanche, I *am*! :-) Truly, it's making me chuckle to see how I can be self-involved about being self-involved. It's okay, really, but it's funny. (There's a line in one of my poems that makes our friend Robt snort coke through his nose: "Am I as self-involved as I think I am?")

*smooch* You're the best. Thanks.