Loving Cassiopeia

Chapter One: On Cheesy Introductions

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Chapter One: On Cheesy Introductions

I sighed in irritation. I hate talking in front of a crowd. This is the reason why I became a journalist and a writer, so I didn't have to talk. I just wanted to write. It all felt like juvenile to me. Introductions? Oh come on!

The instructions were to tell the entire staff and employees about yourself, using the origin of your name and relating it to your personality. So I copied a part of the Wikipedia page for my name's mythological background.  

The Queen Cassiopeia, wife of king Cepheus of Æthiopia, was beautiful but also arrogant and vain; these latter two characteristics led to her downfall. In some sources she was the daughter of Coronus and Zeuxo.

Her name in Greek Kassiope; other variants of the name in Greek Kassiepeia.

The boast of Cassiopeia was that both she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful than all the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus. This brought the wrath of Poseidon, ruling god of the sea, upon the kingdom of Ethiopia.

Accounts differ as to whether Poseidon decided to flood the whole country or direct the sea monster Cetusto destroy it. In either case, trying to save their kingdom, Cepheus and Cassiopeia consulted a wise oracle, who told them that the only way to appease the sea gods was to sacrifice their daughter.

Accordingly, Andromeda was chained to a rock at the sea's edge and left there to helplessly await her fate at the hands of the sea monster Cetus. But the hero Perseus arrived in time, killed Cetus, saved Andromeda and ultimately became her husband.

Since Poseidon thought that Cassiopeia should not escape punishment, he placed her in the heavens tied to a chair in such a position that, as she circles the celestial pole in her throne, she is upside-down half the time. The constellation resembles the chair that originally represented an instrument of torture. Cassiopeia is not always represented tied to the chair in torment, in some later drawings she is holding a mirror, symbol of her vanity, while in others she holds a palm leaf, a symbolism that is not clear.

As it is near the pole star, the constellation Cassiopeia can be seen the whole year from the northern hemisphere, although sometimes upside down.

 As for it's relation to my personality, I am a young woman who lives a determined and focused life, but feels she is in constant torment thanks to the stick up her ass. I smiled at my own self castigation. I have to think of something less offensive, for these children I am working with. 

 I hated this kind of common introduction exercise, but I had no choice because the owner and CEO Mrs. Meredith Jenkins and editor Mr. Kurt Shoal, agreed that we should start by building a friendly working environment, unlike in other women's magazines where the employees are scared shitless of their editor and CEO.