Recently, while participating in yet another internet meme, I displayed this picture for all the world to see. It is, after all, the most popular photo I’ve uploaded to my Flickr account to date. Hey, Trek nerds need something to spank to! They’re people too!
Yo! Commander Hicks, reporting for duty...
Unfortunately the problem this has created is that a number of people have expressed their opinions on how fantastic they think I look and a few suggestions were even made that I dig my Starfleet uniform out of my garage storage and pull that puppy back on post haste. Which is fine and all except this photo? Is from 1994, when I weighed a scant 135lbs and was cute as hell. Neither of which would be an accurate description of me today. So then another person spoke up and said they too had this uniform but wasn’t prepared to fit into it at this time. We bantered back and forth, someone suggested a challenge, and bam! Now I’ve got a weight loss goal. Get back down to my old weight AND fit into my Starfleet uniform at the end of it all.
 It’s a noble goal. One I can actually get behind because do you know how much I paid for that jumpsuit? It’s not a cheap polyester Halloween costume, folks. I picked it up at the Star Trek Federation Science exhibit that year, and holy jeez did I drop a wad at that thing. I tell you, there was a time when I would have spent anything for a piece of Trekdom. Sadly most of that stuff is no longer in my possession, as I gave things away and pared down my belongings over the years. I KNOW. WTF indeed. When I think about that, I get the same pangs as I frequently get when I think about all the Batman shit I collected in high school that I ended up getting rid of before I moved to my first apartment, or all the original Power Rangers junk I’d built up that I gave away to Goodwill about ten years ago.
OK, so I collect weird stuff. Shut up. Pop culture is my baseball card collection.
(And did I ever mention that I used to have an awesome baseball card collection until I THREW THEM AWAY in high school?! You have my full permission to smack me around)
At any rate…I’m hoping to work up the gumption to post monthly…perhaps even weekly…photos of my progress towards the geek in the jumpsuit. I know it’s not really helping my single-gal cause any, but I find that it’s an acceptable trade-off. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a scifi nerd to the extreme. Well. Yes, there is. But I promise you, I will not be wearing this thing to work, nor will I be changing my name to anything clever like Amanda T. Kirk.
No. My fingers aren’t crossed behind my back……………
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