I'm not from 'round here. Neither are you, really.

[caramida]

Note: I had originally intended this for the [acad] filter, but it seems to have grown a life of it's own, refusing to fit within the filter, or within any filter. Oh well, so it goes.

The following quote comes from The Concept of the Foreign: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue edited by Rebecca Saunders. This comes from Saunders' introduction.

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Auslander!

[name_redacted]

Rudolph and Herbie sang it best:

We're a couple of misfits!
We're a couple of misfits!
What's the matter with misfits?
That's where we fit in!

I've always had a knack for marginalizing/enforeignating myself. People don't believe I'm a native Californian, particularly that I'm from SoCal. Maybe because many of my friends growing up were Jews or Asians; maybe because I've made a conscious effort to distance myself from there as much as possible. Plus, you know - weird hobbies, weird major, weird wife.

On the other hand, I've always sort of been my own pole. But it's only been in maybe the last 10-15 years, heck maybe even the last 5, that I've been able to integrate that and be comfortable with myself and others.

Anyway, nice ta meecha!