The Grand Theatre of Freaks

[Sinister]

Celtic! You're qualified. I've seen your qualifications in action j/k. Actually I was hoping you would join. To be the way that I know you are, you are unique. And it is welcome. Remember that one time you, Fishie and I...*sigh* but that was a while back anyways.

Welcome to the Theatre, Celtic.

[Govinda]

Why do you think you are unique?

Because I'm Heather, and there's only one of me. Simplistic, yes. But that's the way it works. Besides which, everyone tells me so all the time; oddball status is something I enjoy.

Here's the way I like to think of it. Life, the straight and narrow, is a busy road cutting in a direct line through the countryside. Most find themselves on the road, concentrating; no time to think, contemplate, stare, analyse. You'll find me milling around in the field by the road, hanging out with the cows, and staring at the sky. How I love the sky. It'd be even better if I thought there was a God hanging out up there.

What talents separate you from others? Be advised that I'm only looking for unique talents.

I wouldn't say talents, not for me at least. I smoke profously and play saxophone when I'm alone, and I'm in love with a long line of dead or near dead musicians.

What I think makes me different is the way I see things. The way I think. My analyses often bring me into conflict, because half of the world doesn't get it. But at the same time as being bolshy, tolerance is at the centre of my way of thinking.

And Halie, I play the ocarina too! My party peice is the whole Jurassic Park film score, played one two recorders, one per nostril. I can even do it with a sopranino (a wee baby recorder) and a tenor (a huge bastard of a thing) at the same time. I can impersonate Eric Cartman perfectly.



Has anyone ever referred to you as different/strange/weird/freak/insane?

95% of all the people I've ever met, yes. I'm different online; I'm a lot livelier in reality. But the walking paradox that I am can still be seen online.

How do you deal with the rest of the world, being so absurdly different as you are?

I talk to it nicely.

What title would you select to describe yourself, which we may refer to you openly?(NOTE: Please be unique)

You can call me Heather if you like.


And regarding the discussion, I find generally everything weird. Especially belief mechanisms, cats, and boring people.

[Sinister]

Govinda is, of course, more than welcome here. It's already become a very interesting club. It's well-known and admired by me, her powers of tolerance and open-mindedness. She's an excellent scholarly person with some interesting opinions.

Welcome to the Theatre, Heather.

[Joe]

Discussion 1 Being strange, what does weird mean to you?

Strange for me include the idea that society feels the need to conform everyone to certain standards (I.E. the status quo). It just seems so strange for society at large to shun others simply because they don't fit the typical image of what a person "should be" instead of what they are.

What I also find strange is that I'm currently enrolled in a college chemistry course, in place of High School Chem, yet I'm required to take the High School Chemistry standardized test, in order to "Prove my proficiency" as if being able to place into a college chem course didn't qualify me as proficient in high school.

Discussion 2 what's the weirdest thing that's happened to me or that I've ever seen?

Besides managing to find a date for junior prom, I'd have to say that one of the weirdest things I've ever seen was me about three years ago. I had worked for a feline-rescue mission, on a volunteer basis, and had contracted cat-scratch fever. during the course of the disease, a lymph node in my neck swelled to the size of a large egg. it also radiated heat. after about two and a half weeks of this, it ruptured, and I had to undergo surgery to drain the node. That was also the most painful experience of my life, since the anesthetic quit working almost ten minutes into the thirty minute procedure.