Nathan Exposed » These Are My Confessions, Part 1

These Are My Confessions, Part 1

A lot of established blogs have a section about the author in a bullet format for easy reading. This is the beginning of mine. Let’s start with the lighter topics.

Personality Analysis

My astrological sign is Scorpio
My Chinese astrological sign is the Rooster
Myers-Briggs code is ISFJ (Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging)

Location

I currently live in Nashville, TN
I used to live in Raleigh, NC
My roots are in Illinois

Family

My husband is Rodney, we have been together 4.5 years
We have 2 cats, Purr Purr and Prissy
I have 2 brothers
I am very close to my parents now, but it wasn’t always that way
The first and only family member to fully accept me was my Grandma. She passed away on July 29, 2004. I miss her.
Rodney and I hope to start a family of our own someday.

Career

I am a graphic & web designer
I started my design career in 1998
My first job was mowing lawns when I was a teenager
I also used to pull weeds and do gardening for the elderly lady down the street. She bothered me sometimes, but now that I’ve grown up, I realize she taught a lot about a hard earned dollar.
I have also worked in retail, where I sold DVD’s, CD’s, and related items. It was a thankless job, but I was a good sales person and I inspired employees with my people skills.
My worst retail experience was when I carried a very heavy storage unit out to this man’s car. He did not even help me. After doing that, he made a comment about ‘queers’, I thought of all people, he would know something about discrimination since he was black. I made him very sorry for what he said.
I have also worked at a Domino’s Pizza. The smell of the ingredients was amazing every day. I love pizza.

Tue, Sep 27, 2005 @ 7:07 pm | Filed in Confessions | Permalink

7 Comments

Scorpio, eh? I’m a Sagio - Scorpio/Sagitarius cusper.

Posted by Vince on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 @ 8:34 pm

Really? When is your birthday? Mine is the 20th. I am also on the cusp.

Posted by Nathan on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 @ 9:10 pm

I went to school in Nashville! I miss Tennessee sooooo much…and after all this hurricane crap, I may be moving there within a few years. Mountain folk, here I come.

Posted by sugarfoot on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 @ 9:48 pm

Come on home, Sugarfoot! I’m sure our tornadoes are looking mighty good to you right now.

We’ve just lived here a few months, but I think autumn is going to be beautiful here.

Posted by Nathan on Tue, Sep 27, 2005 @ 10:06 pm

22nd of November here.

Posted by Vince on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 @ 9:41 am

I want to know what you did to the guy to make him “very sorry.”

Posted by purpletwinkie on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 @ 5:02 pm

Scott - It would be even cooler if I remembered my exact words to the guy. But it’s been awhile, and I don’t.

Do you know how someone might say “there are a lot of clouds out today” while making small talk with a stranger?

Well this guy said that, but remove the word “clouds” and insert “queers”. It was like regular conversation to him.

I stopped right in my tracks and looked at him, and said “Oh yeah, well I’m a queer.”

He looked shocked and had to compose himself.

I continued “You should really think about the things you just come up and say to a complete stranger. You have no idea who you’re talking to.”

He said “I’m sorry man, I had no idea. You had me fooled, you wear it well”.

I said “It doesn’t matter how I wear it. You shouldn’t talk that way to me.”

He apologized some more and tried to shake my hand. I was so pissed, I stormed off .

So I didn’t actually “do” anything to him, but I caught him so offguard with my honesty that he looked like he was going to crawl into a hole.

A couple of days later, he came back to the store when I wasn’t there. He talked to my Manager and told him how sorry he was for what he had said to me.

I think my body language and strong tone is what really made him feel shitty. So that’s why I say he was “very sorry”. Whatever I said or did must have bothered him for days because he made a point to come back and apologize some more.

I think if the same thing happened today, as I’m older and more confident, the results probably would have been more severe.

I don’t believe in harming people with violence. My secret weapon is words because those do not heal.

I think I would have said things that broke down every ounce of confidence he had. It would serve him right for talking about us like freaks of nature.

Posted by Nathan on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 @ 6:42 pm