exitstrategy

I am well aware of the rules of maintaining an alter-ego.  First, you start with your run of the mill nerd.  Second, you add a super power.  Third, and finally, you add a super sneaky disguise such that the world never suspects the run of the mill nerd is in fact the super hero in possession of the super power.Take for example Clark Kent.  He was a bookish reporter who wore, gasp, glasses.  But, he took off the glasses and became Superman.   No one suspected they were the same person.Or, better yet, take Steve Urkel, everyone’s favorite nerd from Family Matters.  He wears glasses and short pants.  But then he walks into the “cool machine” (I am really getting old because I used to know the name of the machine), and out walks Stephan Ur-kel, the smooth operator and amor to Laura Winslow.  This may be a faulty analogy because people might have known the true identity of Steve and Stephan, but I am not sure.  Either way you get the point, and can probably see where this is going.You take one super smart, super successful, super motivated legal genius.  And then you give her a computer and voila out pops Fat Spinsta.  I never use proper names and I sometimes dramatize (although, in my defense, I view the world in hyperbole so what may be technically exaggeration feels like my truth - ugh I was BORN to be a lawyer) so you would think that these two identities would remain forever apart.Well the first crack in my armor came a month ago when the rents found the blog.  Ugh I am still hearing about it.  Oh and before that, I was selling stuff on craigslist and one of the potential purchasers of my desk became on of my contacts on the g-list and he found the blog.  I mean he didn’t know who I was before so the alter-ego thing is kind of lost on him, but it shows just how hard it is to remain two people.  (Hopefully you are still reading Craig - name changed to protect ME).And then a few days ago I was yet again unmasked.  A guy I was to go on a date with on Saturday night became a g-list contact and saw the blog (Note: I advertise for the blog on g-chat, which is a somewhat imperfect advertising strategy since my g-chat buddies already read the blog so don’t really get new readers but whatev).  So when we were setting up the date he asked about the blog.  I decided to maintain my alter-ego “No that is a blog from my anonymous friend.”  Clearly I could not keep up that clever ruse forever, so I admitted to being two people.  But on the plus side, during the date, he referred to me as “Carrie Bradshaw” which was a real coup since these blog reads a lot more like Cathy than Sex in the City.  AACK!!I just don’t understand how Peter, Steve, Bruce (Wayne) and Clark keep it up.  I mean yeah they are fictional characters but still.  I don’t know how to maintain this double life.  I think the answer is pretty clear, but there is no way I could do what must be done:  wear glasses.  As the saying goes, boys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses.

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