Walking that thing line between eccentricity and normalcy

If you haven't noticed, I do my best to advertise my strangeness to the outside world. I'm not sure why I started doing this. I may have been under the impression I would some day live off the fruits of my strangeness, like maybe people would pay to have their photo taken with me in my Cookie Cat outfit, or would buy t-shirts with the Snake Foot on them, or actually pay to hear the story of the time I got into a flame war with Virgin Mobile. 

I could at least be famous for my eccentric qualities, like Salvador Dali or Gertrude Stein*. But I haven't yet figured out how to grow a luxurious mustache and I am not in a long-term relationship with the inventor of pot brownies, so I'm not sure if the road of eccentricity is really open to me yet.

I feel like a lot of people have no choice but to make a living off of appearing to be normal. This seems exhausting, but I figure some day, one of those people will be me. I've been left under the impression that most employers out there require a certain amount of normalcy from their employees (which is why many of the most interesting people are unemployed). Like you have to wear a suit to work, or not come to work with purple hair and cupcakes on your fingernails**, and you definitely shouldn't have a blog filled with letters addressed to your house-cat, no matter how well-received those letters were.

Generally, meeting these sorts of standards takes an extensive amount of effort. But every once in a while, I accidentally do something too normal to put on the blog, like buying clothing from big box stores, or sleeping past 8 a.m., or reading Eat, Pray, Love. So then I've got to wonder, if you can be normal by accident, am I slowly becoming increasingly more and more normal over time? Is there a median of (outward) normalcy we all generally gravitate towards? And how will I know when I've reached it?



*I know I know, they were also famous for their artistic abilities, not just their mustaches and romances.

**This is why it's best to pick a job where the majority of customers walk through the door hoping to find a scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on the other side.