Business card briefings

so another of our many somewhat random topics of conversation this afternoon was about making business cards for our personal use, and what would be on them to be representative of ourselves. So of course I thought of putting a penguin on mine, because that would be something that would represent me, and when people think of me and my favorite animal, they think of penguins. (Plus I think it would be so cool to go to Antarctica sometime! and it would help me round out my goal of traveling to every continent in my lifetime.) BUT, giving out my business card with a penguin on it doesn't seem very...professional, or businesslike, or whatever a business card is supposed to represent. So there's this dichotomy between who I am and my interests and what I like and what people expect me to present myself as, or what they think an aspiring professional, educated, straight-laced graduate student should be! And that's precisely what I hate! Having to represent myself as something other than who I want to be just to satisfy the conventions or stereotypes of society. We even discussed that this afternoon, how I don't want to be "pegged" as anything and I'm continually trying to do things that will totally surprise people, and they would never imagine in a million years that Kelly would do something like that. So I don't know what to do with that. A lot of times I feel like I should just accept that - it's the way society is. And then I feel like I shouldn't have to accept it, because it just feels wrong.