As requested by mellofellow13
Nooooo! I thought my whole claim to fame was that I always made up a story about it and when people would say, "Wow, really?" I'd say, "No" and walk away. *sigh* Here goes. It's not very glamorous.
I studied creative writing in high school. And in high school, some poetry can be pissily angsty (see teeenangstpoetry.com). I got tired of it. And the poetry assignment was to write a poem that began with the line, "I've decided to end my life disguised as a... [insert noun here]." Knowing that most of the poetry would be pretty dark, I inserted the word "Shoe" and wrote about how being a shoe would make me totally awesome or some other nonsense. The poem, for the record, was horrific.
However, the point got across. And my teacher went to the registrar's office and had them change my name to "Shoe". So, now all the mail I get from Interlochen is addressed to "Shoe Harris". I've been Shoe ever since. And really, I prefer to go by Shoe in most situations. It's certainly an essence at this point. Hmmm... to bump up my own already inflated ego, mayhaps I should institute the verbing of "Shoe." Like, "Wow... you totally Shoed that drink," or "You can't Shoe that essay! It's due tomorrow!" Because, like, you can verb anything if you just wordify it.
So, those are all the requests for post topics I've gotten. Any others? I've rather enjoyed NOT talking about work. ;)
I studied creative writing in high school. And in high school, some poetry can be pissily angsty (see teeenangstpoetry.com). I got tired of it. And the poetry assignment was to write a poem that began with the line, "I've decided to end my life disguised as a... [insert noun here]." Knowing that most of the poetry would be pretty dark, I inserted the word "Shoe" and wrote about how being a shoe would make me totally awesome or some other nonsense. The poem, for the record, was horrific.
However, the point got across. And my teacher went to the registrar's office and had them change my name to "Shoe". So, now all the mail I get from Interlochen is addressed to "Shoe Harris". I've been Shoe ever since. And really, I prefer to go by Shoe in most situations. It's certainly an essence at this point. Hmmm... to bump up my own already inflated ego, mayhaps I should institute the verbing of "Shoe." Like, "Wow... you totally Shoed that drink," or "You can't Shoe that essay! It's due tomorrow!" Because, like, you can verb anything if you just wordify it.
So, those are all the requests for post topics I've gotten. Any others? I've rather enjoyed NOT talking about work. ;)