At my office (and mind you I work with a fairly conservative marketing department) I leaked my unusual hobbies slowly.
Theater was first. I called the shows local, amateur productions and that was all right by most people. Luckily, the shows were Shakespeare and that can be seen as faily impressive. Might I suggest showing off how beautiful you looked in A Midsummer's Night Dream as one possible introduction? It's hard to say, "Eek, weird!" when presented with beauty.
Then I slowly leaked Pennsic. I had to. I first called it a camping trip and afterwards called it a big amateur rennfaire and provided pictures and postcards - things people can grasp like entertainers and battle scenes and some of the encampment pictures. Calling Pennsic a rennfaire is misleading, but my coworkers wouldn't know the difference.
Other than that, I've never even had to explain my interest in dance. A lot of people accept dance as a normal hobby (and insert their own images of two-step, ballroom or clubbing as appropriate)
You have a active social group that many people would envy if they understood. I don't think you should worry about it being too weird. In the end most of my coworkers say that I'm busy and that I do a lot of crazy things, but it isn't with the slowly back away voice, they say it with a touch of longing.
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2005-02-10 05:05 pm (UTC)Theater was first. I called the shows local, amateur productions and that was all right by most people. Luckily, the shows were Shakespeare and that can be seen as faily impressive. Might I suggest showing off how beautiful you looked in A Midsummer's Night Dream as one possible introduction? It's hard to say, "Eek, weird!" when presented with beauty.
Then I slowly leaked Pennsic. I had to. I first called it a camping trip and afterwards called it a big amateur rennfaire and provided pictures and postcards - things people can grasp like entertainers and battle scenes and some of the encampment pictures. Calling Pennsic a rennfaire is misleading, but my coworkers wouldn't know the difference.
Other than that, I've never even had to explain my interest in dance. A lot of people accept dance as a normal hobby (and insert their own images of two-step, ballroom or clubbing as appropriate)
You have a active social group that many people would envy if they understood. I don't think you should worry about it being too weird. In the end most of my coworkers say that I'm busy and that I do a lot of crazy things, but it isn't with the slowly back away voice, they say it with a touch of longing.