You go about thinking, “Yeah, I’m pretty normal, as people go,” until someone asks you what you do for fun…
“Er, well, I shoot a longbow, because I’m training to be a Combat
Archer… er, in this Medieval Reenactment Society… Er, and I sculpt
articulated art dolls… Um, and I sew things- I’m working on an art
quilt for this Native American project I want to do for my tribe….
Why are you looking at me like that?”
Then they’re figuring, Oh, she has weird hobbies, but surely her JOB is normal rite?
“Well, a couple summers ago I was mostly making baskets, we needed
like a hundred baskets for a market scene and they found out I could
make them so I just sat and tied baskets for like two months, and after
that I’ve been mostly either sewing or carving styrene foam.”
..”Styrene…?”
“Yeah, you know, Styrofoam ™. We carve it. Then the other department
sculptors put cement over it and paint it and we have faux stone- we’ve
been doing this city set with a lot of stone, and I cannot get the foam
out of my hair or my set clothes…. You’re giving me that look again.”