Apr 29, 2006 23:44
*Locked to those who know about vampires*
First of all, I totally appreciate that we're supposed to talk about our current and and former childhood ambitions, because, of course, I'm totally in my second childhood. My first childhood was my human childhood, in Sunnydale, and I wanted to be Miss America, obviously. Miss America is totally the best pageant, because it's not all about having great tits and looking awesome in a bathing suit. It's about having a talent that is well-displayed when you are wearing a bathing suit. Plus, it's educational! The very first Miss America I remember was Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, Miss America 1988. She was the first registered nurse to win Miss America, and she called all kinds of attention to the plight of the health care professionals in America and until 1989? I totally wanted to be a nurse. And I thought about that when I was in high school and I had this really awesome boyfriend (he went to another school, you don't know him) who liked me to dress up like a nurse. With the hat and the sensible shoes and all! So it's almost like I did grow up to be a nurse. Or I would have, if I didn't get eaten at graduation!
And that totally brings up my second childhood, which started on graduation day -- almost seven years ago, oh my god! I mean, technically, I am only seven years old, the same age I was when Kaye Lani Rae won Miss America! Which is pretty awesome if you think about it. And of course, Miss America 2006, Jennifer Berry, is from Oklahoma and dances ballet, so if I was a human child still, I'd pretty much want to be a dancer. And dancers are cool, they wear lots of pink. Mostly I'm over that and my childhood ambition is pretty much the usual -- defying God and all his works, spreading chaos, taking blood vengeance on vampire slayers. (Except Kara, of course! Because she's my BFLJ -- hey Kara, do you want to come over this weekend for a Gilmore Girls marathon?) (Also except Buffy, because I feel sorry for her because she can't hold onto a man, and her porn career didn't even take off, so it's not like she needs a nemesis on top of all that!)