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[iniswitryn]

Sometimes, I really boggle at how my brain works - how the subconscious links that it finds between past and present, fiction and real-life experience so often yield startling, if not terribly life-altering, discoveries I don't believe a more logical, fully-conscious thought sequence ever would lead me to.

I've been reading Ender's Game by Orson

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[iniswitryn]

Really, I'm just so pleased for him. He has made a career out of doing what he was really good at and interested in even back then, and (especially given the politics in this township, and an Air Force family background) it's good to see he's a voice for the "good guys", a reasoning influence in assessing our international involvements.

Part of me is also thrilled to see that a former shy, geeky little kid, who at least in 7th grade was picked on a good bit by the anti-intellectuals and the "cool kids", became an apparently charismatic player in the alpha-personality-driven political sphere. Revenge of the nerds, indeed. :)

And I've pretty much made my peace with my slacker-tude. It has its benefits and compensations, and the adults who were projecting the Big Things for me back then only had the raw scores - not the entire picture. There's a parallel-dimension me out there somewhere, and it looks a lot like Steven, but that's ok with the this-dimension me. It's just funny that I found this out about him, when of all the kids in that class he was one of the few I really identified with (and wasn't terrified of), even though I was too shy - and probably so was he - to let us really get to know each other.