Distinctions
A few clarifications about me and my work are in order.
How I am not like Lara Croft
- I’m a paleontologist, not an archaeologist or anthropologist. Mixing these up is like thinking all engineers drive trains. Thank you.
- American, not British
- (eventual) Dr/Professor, not Lady
- I do my own library research
- I have a degree
- I work within the academic system
- My boobs aren’t the highlight of my work
- Nor do they need CGI
- Less fire power
- More intellectual power
- Less money
- But I earn it all
- I deal in ideas, not artifacts
- I don’t have a stunt double
- And I don’t get multiple takes
- I’m less likely to get shot at
- I have a cooler dad
- When I get a telescope, it won’t be quite that big
- I like a 1911 Colt .45 to her Magnum .44s
- I’m right handed
- I don’t have a butler. Yet.
That said, I’ll grant a few similarities in acknowledgement of the initial parallel drawn
- My work can potentially take me anywhere in the world
- I collect old things in the field
- I know history
- My interests and work are highly multidisciplinary
- I’m a woman of action
- In a traditionally male job
- I aim to be my best
- I have a statistically unpredictable collection of friends and associates
- I mainly work alone
- And to the beat of my own drum
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I would probably have very different list, other than the obvious no butler, no riches, no artifacts, no stunt double stuff. *grin* Like that my boobs are non-existent (almost), but my lips kinda make up for it; I can’t tell one gun from another, but I like sniper guns and machine guns just on power and sneakiness. Can’t say my dad’s cooler though. My dad’s never even *heard* of the Illuminati. Hehe.
Comment by Jenna — February 19, 2006 @ 7:37 am
Ah see, the Illuminati don’t make you cool. It’s what you do about what you do know that makes you cool. And my dad’s tops. I gotta tell you about the magazine photo.
Comment by Katie — February 19, 2006 @ 6:42 pm
Wait… you’re not Lara Croft?! Then why am I friends with you?
Comment by Dave Zornek — March 11, 2006 @ 12:12 am
Drat! Foiled again!
Comment by praxical — March 11, 2006 @ 1:20 am