momebie | LJ Idol: Exhibit A, Post #0 - I have frequently not been on boats.

Hello out there, old and new Idol friends. My name is KL, nice to meet you. I am a lot of things-30, ginger, late for everything, still mentally lazing in bed-but there are more things that I'm not. The things that I'm not are way more interesting than the things that I am, so I suppose I'll start out this mini-season by disabusing you of any notions that I might be a cool or somehow useful human being. So a few things that I'm not, to get us started.

1. I am not a librarian.
I do work in a library, surrounded by books. I've always wanted to be left alone in the room with the books and now here I am, though not quite alone. It isn't what I thought it would be, but then, it's not quite the way I'd intended to get here either. That's the way with most of life, I find. In my current position I work in the library at a publishing company and spend a lot of time faffing about with spreadsheets and very little time actually helping editorial look for books. I would like to eventually go back to school and get my masters in library science so people will hire me to research things properly (or perhaps some sort of curating thing, I haven't decided yet), but for now I merely muck about in databases and try to convince other publishers to give us free books. Weirdly, that second thing is easier than the first most days.

2. I am not a superhero.
Though I spend a whole lot of time thinking about them. And reading comics about them. And writing poems about them. And pretending to dress like girly, teenage versions of them, because if there's one thing Bucky Barnes would approve of as a character it's me getting my nutella all up in his peanut butter.

I'm actually not a hero at all. What I am is a villain, and my name is KaiLor. Which sometimes leads to hilarity when baristas call me so I can pick up my hot chocolate-with extra darkside-or my friends inform me that I am also a planet from the Star Wars universe. I don't wear spandex, but I do wear masks.

3. I am not an poet.
And how. The two things I would very much like to be regardless of money or fame acquired, are a poet or a philosopher. The first because I have a great respect for poets, even though I'm just recently learning to truly admire their work. I wish I could be as bald as they are. Sometimes I think in a poetic manner, but getting it out of my head in a pleasing form is really hard. And I'd like to be the second because, hell, I already spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about what it means to be alive, or to be awake, or to be free, or to be wearing green sweaters. Might as well get some use out of it. I'll never really be either of those things, but I'm no stranger to dress up, so sometimes it's nice to pretend.

4. I am not a giraffe.
I don't care what my friends tell you. I'm also not Gerard Way, Jessica HAS seen us in the same place at the same time before. She will lie about that, you have to be careful.

5. I am not with the band.
Except for when I am. Some of my friends and I did help a band we have friends in shoot a music video last summer. But mostly I'm just skulking around dive bars in my cardigans waiting for something to strike me. Preferably a chord or a line, but there have been stray beer bottles and feet. It's a hard knock life for southern hipsters with questionable music taste. I'd explain more, but Deadmau5 just dropped the beat and I think he needs some help picking it up.

Wait here, I'll go do that.