What I wanted to be when I grew up

As noted in a comment to rollick's post:

As a child, I wanted to grow up to be _______________.

me:
Mr. Roger's television neighbor.

I mean, I wanted to play a neighbor of his on TV.

The other notorious one was 'bookwriter'. Which led me to tell my soon-to-be math major mother that I didn't need math because of my career choice. She quickly dissuaded me from this line of thinking.

Now, I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

Tell me, what did you want to do when you grew up when you were a kid? And what do you want to be when you grow up now?

[Edit 12:20 pm]. Related to this, shadesong asked: If you could get paid for doing what you're best at... what would you be doing? What's your calling?

and I said:
Writing and doing research. I still want to be a professor, I just don't think I'll ever be allowed into a Ph.D track at the rate I'm going.

If I can't be a prof, I wanna be a writer.

So I guess that sorta answers the 'what I want to do when I grow up' question.

une composition

More french, this one about my life in Berkeley. Enjoy.

( Les temps du Berkeley )

It's pretty boring. C'est très ennuyeux.

That name meme...

If you call me Katrina, you're probably my family or knew me before I went to college.

If you call me Kat, you've probably met me in real life or otherwise enough to know that's my preferred name.

If you call me katster, you know me from the Redding BBS community circa 1995-1996 or in other venues online.

If you call me Kats, you're probably part of the contengent on #spork.

If you call me Katze, I kindly remind you that I'm not my character.

If you call me Sissy, you're jillcaligirl and you know I hate that name.

If you call me gherkta or use the possessive "my" in front of my name, you're zibblsnrt and I love you.

If you call me katling, you're aiobheil :)

If you call me Ms. Templeton, you're a store clerk or a telemarketer and I don't want any.

If you call me "hey you", you don't know me. :)