Just to be clear, I don't actually identify with shellfish on regular basis. The Zen Clam comes from a blog post I wrote years ago on my 'industry/personal' blog about making a typo. I kind of liked the way it sounded, so when I decided to create a new blog where I could just do what I wanted to do and not spend a lot of time worrying about how fans of my writing would perceive my posts, I went with The Zen Clam.
I suppose being an introvert whose class quote senior year of high school was "..." [yes, just an ellipsis], sort of makes me a bit of a clam. I prefer to be quiet, and that's often been mistaken for me either being upset or snooty. I never understood why not jabbering all the time meant I was stuck up...but that's what I had to deal with in high school. Thank goodness I'm LONG past high school. Now it's mostly, "Are you okay? You're so quiet." Truth is, I'm thinking. I like to think. I enjoy tooling around inside my own head, and I sometimes enjoy being inside my shell, so for that reason, I suppose a clam does suit me as an icon.
Of course, I come here, so I can chat away unfettered by my clamminess. Or, more accurately, to think in print.
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