Being a normal validation seeking individual, I attempt to spread my ability to be validated across a very wide spectrum of activities and relationships. This has stood me in good stead. I opt for the jack of all instead of the master, and that has made me quite well. Because, very little of my validation comes from how people perceive me. It comes from how well I interact with them, but not how they think I am. This bars the long term relationships as far as working definitions go. I supply that caveat because those that love thee well, know thee well. Or whatever that saying is. Those people that know me well, know that I am more interested in the interstitial work niches that are created by emerging readers/ learners/ technologists /insert-word-here-that-captures-the-large-swathe-of-the-population-that-is "in between" new-and-old-things/generations. And my satisfaction, as far as approaching any mastery is considered, is fairly satisfied in this arena. I have 15+ years of projects that have taught me great things and introduced me to great people. I am fairly adept -or at least can successfully manage- skills spanning butchering to digital repository architecture. Given the world as it stands, the *making my own yoghurt and knowing how to impersonate Julia Childs with a live bird and a stock pot* end of the spectrum is "purdy nahhs" to have. As they say in my family.