Bemusing...

[liralen]

Folks at work have been spreading the meme about my being interviewed for Real Genius. I'm not sure exactly who it was that found out to start, but it's now going everywhere, and it's bemusing.

Especially when one lady asked me, "Were you really that... hyper?"

*sigh*

I still remember the head swivel everyone did when the Horde watched the movie with me present at the first scene with Jordan.

Now I feel slow and old. Ah well.

I'm realizing that I've gone a very long ways from where I was... I feel my older and slower and politically cautious and more tired, now. Maybe it's good for me to stop and rest and revisit and recapture who and what I really want to be as myself again. Maybe the costs of success were higher than I'd originally counted. It is a good thing to know.

Comments

[niherlas.livejournal.com]

You do know that the actress who played Jordan has entirely dropped out of acting and lives with her family as a Zen Buddhist, yes?

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*falls over*

She married a John, too.

Woo.

I had no idea! How very, very cool! thank you for the link as well. I really think that's very, very cool. *laughter*

[marith.livejournal.com]

So that's why I haven't seen her in anything else! How very cool. (And yes, I did notice she married a John. Heh.)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[kjc007.livejournal.com]

I don't think people believe me when I tell them about this.

"No, really, the character is based largely on her. Really. Except she's a six-foot tall Chinese woman. Wait, where are you going??"

I'm glad it's helping you ponder things, though. Pondering is good.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

But I *had* that straight across the forehead bang cut! And while I am of Chinese ethnic origins, I'm really American, born in Ohio and all that. *grin*

Though, yeah. It's funny to see the twist.

Pondering is very useful.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

pondering is good.

also, sometimes it's good to be a given way, and some other times it's good to *have been* a given way. and sometimes, one is lucky to have both be true.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grin* so true.

[a-machine.livejournal.com]

Slower is totally better. I speak as one who has been there.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Hmmm... slower alone can be a good thing. The caution, though and the... hmmm. fear? Are the things I could do without. The being stuck in a corporate silo of not wanting to rock the boat, can, sometimes, be not so good.

I think that being balanced might be better than being both "fast" and "slow" and applying the forces needed for the situation presented has always been my ultimate goal. At Caltech, drinking from a firehose required a type of speed I don't need at the moment. *grin* So perhaps it is better than I not be exactly what I was, but recapturing some of that bright, more cheerful me, would be a way to a balance I like better, I think. *grin*

When slow and creaky equate with dour and cautious, I'm not as happy as I might want to be. :-)