An explanation as introduction

As one of a group of theater nerds in high school, my friends and I loved the musical You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, which is all about the characters and situations from Charles Schultz's Peanuts comic strip. When my friends and I found out it was playing in Cedar City (a three hour drive away) over Labor Day, we decided it was a good time for a road trip. During one of the scenes, Lucy intrudes on Linus as he is watching TV and announces to him that she's decided that when she grows up, she's going to be a queen:

LUCY:
Linus, do you know what I intend. I intend to be a queen. When I grow up I'm going to be the biggest queen there ever was. And I'll live in a big palace with a big front lawn and have lots of beautiful dresses to wear. And, when I go out in my coach all the people...

LINUS:
Lucy!

LUCY:
All the people will wave, and I will shout at them. And...

LINUS:
Lucy, I believe queen is an inherited title. Yes, I am quite sure a person can only be queen by being born into a royal family of the correct lineage so that she can assume the throne after the death of the reining monarch. I can't think of any possible way that you could ever become a queen. I'm sorry Lucy, but it's true.

LUCY:
And in the summer time, I will go to my summer palace and I will wear my crown in swimming and everything. And all the people will cheer and I will shout at them...WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T BE QUEEN?!?!

And for reasons unknown, my kind friends decided that was a perfect summary of me and it stuck. Really, I don't think I'm quite so overdramatic or power-hungry or aggressive as Lucy, but I have to admit, "queen" does have a nice ring to it....