Hi, I'm Putt-Putt Face

I am currently reading the book Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Eat, Pray, Love is a non-fictional account of a New York City author who suddenly decides in hear early-30's that her life doesn't look exactly like what she had in mind. She picks up one day and sets out to travel the world, eating in Italy, praying in India, and (I can only assume, but I'm not there yet) loving in Indonesia.

There are a lot of fascinating insights and stories in this narrative, but my favorite passage so far is the author talking about herself and her travel skills. I read the following paragraph and immediately thought, "OMG, she's writing about me!", so much so that I copied and pasted it into my "About Me" on Facebook...the first update in about two years:

"I have a shortage of personal coolness. I have never learned how to arrange my face into that blank expression of competent invisibility...You know - that super-relaxed, totally-in-charge expression which makes you look like you belong there, anywhere, everywhere...Oh, no. When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I'm lost, which is frequently, I look lost. My face is a transparent transmitter of every thought. As David once put it, 'You have the opposite of a poker face. You have, like...miniature golf face.'"

I've always known that I wasn't good at poker because of my inability to lie and/or mask my every emotion. Now I just know that I'm not alone!
:)