Tanning and Hipsterism

[mayamaia]

So if I'm not careful, I'm going to BURN this spring. I just did a tan check - I looked at my arms to see how easily I'll burn when it comes time to go to tank tops and swimsuits. Even the backs of my wrists have gone almost as white as my stomach. I mean, at least my arms have *something* (most portuguese bit of me), but the rest is looking very Swedish and I fear it'll show the celtic if I'm not very careful about slowly tanning.

Cause the thing is, I never seem to remember suntan lotion or spread it effectively. Not ever, not even in Costa Rica when I didn't want my family to realize I'd gone out of the country in winter. (I was lucky enough that time that the burn happened on my back where I could cover up any evidence.)

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I was giggling my way through Hipster Doctor sites this morning. Just gotta say, though, one of the sites could be a bit more picky about its evidence. If having interests that you're confident that the vast majority of the world won't understand, not only is every Doctor a hipster, but so am I.

Booting Obnoxious Hipster Franny...

Music: Classical, please. What, Mozart? No, he's too mainstream, I like the Russians. Not the Nutcracker, so much, but the Marche Slav or the Lieutenant Kije Suite. I'd describe it, but you probably wouldn't understand.

Major: Physics. One of my favorite seminars was on Bose-Einstein condensates, but the best part was on the superconducting properties of Helium-3, it was amazingly complex....

Art: Oh, modern art is too mainstream. I like Albert Bierstadt. Not only is it gorgeously retro, he's totally ironic because he painted modern buildings out of his seemingly totally realistic images. He even painted Puget Sound before he ever saw it, what a STATEMENT.

TV: I don't watch tv, I use the internet, but I usually don't watch American shows at all. British, of course, they're so much better than what normal people like. Of COURSE I watch Doctor Who, but I watch the old series, it's much more complex than the new stuff. Who's my favorite Doctor? Patrick Troughton of course, there's not much of him but there's so much more TO him, if you know what I mean but you probably don't.

End Obnoxious Hipster Franny

...I could go on, but the fact remains that most of the things I like that aren't mainstream are things that make me NERDY. We have a word for that. It is NERDY. It is a good word, and one of which I'm proud. I wouldn't mind being a hipster too, but really, we need to use a better definition, people.

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[animate-mush.livejournal.com]

I remember when the Dispatch ran an article on my shape note group. They described us as people from all walks of life, from very very traditional (bonnet wearing) to "urban hipsters." We all sort of stared at each other, trying to figure out which of us was the urban hipster. We decided it was Steve, because he'd been wearing a leather jacket that day.