Gifted

This is my family:

• My grandmother and grandfather both have Master’s degrees in English.
• My cousin is a performer with the Cirque de Soleil.
• My aunt is an opera singer.
• My uncle is a Pulitzer-prize winning poet and author.
• My other uncle is a marathoner and triathelete.
• My mother is a chef.
• My other aunt has her Doctorate in history, is a college professor and author.
• Yet another aunt is a museum curator.
• My great-grandfather was an engineer; he designed the Hoover Dam, among many other structures.
• Another cousin is a successful restauranteur.
• Another cousin has seven Master’s degrees and works for NASA (yes, seven).

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I am… What? A human resources analyst? A sometimes blogger? A failed graduate student who has resigned herself to working in corporate America? A piece of plain white bread soaked in 2% milk? Not living up to the expectations set by my family or myself?

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I am… Not looking forward to our next family reunion. That’s what I am.

Sorry for the lack of more explicit details, but…I don’t know most of you. Tough titties.