10 things you already know

[resonant]

I like cereta's "10 Things" meme. It's like I get to do a FAQ on myself.



10 Things You Probably Already Know About Me

1. Slasher. Smut-writer. Here there be adult content. Duh.

2. Female. 41. Married. One child (in first grade). Note: "Monogamously involved with a male person" does not equal "heterosexual."

3. American. White. Southern. I've lived in the Midwest for twenty years, but I'm Southern on corpuscle level.

4. Don't have cable. Mostly don't watch TV. Actually not very fannish. Just here for the porn and the friendship.

5. On dial-up. Hence, not looking at a lot of art or downloading a lot of trailers or watching a lot of vids.

6. Former journalist and technical writer. Attempting to become a pro fiction writer. Currently unemployed, or to put that another way, enjoying a spouse-sponsored arts grant.

7. Wildly introverted. Possibly this translates to "socially inept." I wouldn't know, would I?

8. Like cereta, I consider anything I say online to be a publicly published text. If I didn't want it quoted, discussed, etc., I wouldn't post it. This also means that if you wanted to, say, play Sunday Coneskey in a role-playing game, you wouldn't need to ask my permission (any more than you'd ask Rowling's permission to play Draco Malfoy), though I (unlike Rowling) would get a nice warm feeling if you sent me an e-mail and told me about it.

9. Depending on how much free time I have, how much your interests and mine are overlapping at the moment, and how much I feel like being involved with other people, I friend and unfriend freely. Go thou and do likewise. If you really can't bear to read one more post about Christmas music, you can unfriend me for the season, or forever, without hurting my feelings one bit.

10. I'm an Episcopalian. I live in a horribly conservative diocese where ordaining women is still controversial, so I'm a member of a Presbyterian church, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm Episcopalian. However, I also believe that anything humans say about the Divine is necessarily partial, provisional, and metaphorical. Which means that I don't believe my religion is any more correct than yours -- the most I can say is that it's probably incorrect in different ways.

Comments

[tex.livejournal.com]

Yes, another over 40 chick! I didn't know there were so many of us.

[kymbr.livejournal.com]

Presbyterian Power Girl!!! *clears throat* Glory be the the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning...

Tis the first thing I ever memorized! I wanted to be like all the other people and just sing it instead of have to read it out of the hymnal :) It's the Doxology, Dude

---is dork

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I am 43!!!!

*beams*

[neery.livejournal.com]

Wildly introverted.

Did you possibly once upon a time say something along the lines of "...when I say I need to be alone I don't mean it like I need chocolate, I mean it like I need air?" Because I've been looking for that exact quote for forever, and digging through the last five months of the journals of a lot of people, but now that I think about it, it might have been from you.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

I spent most of last week thinking I was 43, and then woke up yesterday thinking, "Duh! I'm 41!" 'Twas bizarre.

(I really am 41, if that wasn't clear. Don't know where I got "43" from.)

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

Note: "Monogamously involved with a male person" does not equal "heterosexual."

::CHEERS::

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

"Monogamously involved with a male person" does not equal "heterosexual."

...

I also believe that anything humans say about the Divine is necessarily partial, provisional, and metaphorical.

Sing it, sister!


:-)

[hlglne.livejournal.com]

Nice to further meet you. I feel similar about posts. And the founder of the Druidism I espouse, Reformed Druids of North America, became an Episcopalian priest. Did not cease being a Druid, I don't think, and some present elders of RDNA are also practising Episcopals.

Not me though. I married into the Native American Church. But if you want to know more, I'd better bite the meme. oh--age 48

[cereta.livejournal.com]

:Echoes:

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Jeepers, all you old gals. Well, buck up. I'm older than all of you.

I'm gonna start the Gray Dyed Red Panthers!

[tingler.livejournal.com]

Heh, after 40, it just all starts to blur together. I have to keep doing the math to keep it straight.)

[meri-oddities.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't that be the Dyed Red Pornographers? I'll join. :-) And if I recall, you're not *that* much older than any of us.

[alizarin-nyc.livejournal.com]

You seem a wonderful, insightful, smart, funny, level-headed person. I friended for the smut writing and it's nice to get to know you further. Christmas music and all. *g*

[crysothemis.livejournal.com]

Wildly introverted.

Oh, that's a beautiful turn of phrase. Mind if I borrow it? 'Cause it describes me perfectly, too.

anything humans say about the Divine is necessarily partial, provisional, and metaphorical

Wow. Yes. Wow.

And I have cable, but I still don't watch TV . . .

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Greatness -- The DRP. Join today!

not relevant to the over-40 discussion, but to the number confusion...

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking for months that I'm 28. I actually have to stop myself when I'm asked my age and make sure I say the right number.

I think brains just get all confused sometimes and think, well, I must be such-and-such an age, for that is how it feels to me! Calendars? Pshaw! Fiddly human things!

Re: not relevant to the over-40 discussion, but to the number confusion...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Definitely. People keep thinking I'm lying because I always have to calculate it. I try to say "born in" instead.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I see your new icon focusses on the essentials now *lopsided grin*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It is a cool age.

I find that after about 36 I began to lose track of my exact age.

[bonspiel.livejournal.com]

enjoying a spouse-sponsored arts grant
Hee, I like that. I'm currently enjoying a spouse-sponsored graduate degree grant myself.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I wonder if you're older than I am... I keep a list. A very short list. With two names, AFAIK. I'd join the Panthers, though.

[crysothemis.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, I found it an entertaining way to crop that drawing.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm not dyed, though I probably will be come spring. So count me in.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I remember when I was a kid, I could not understand how my mother would have to say, "Well, I was born in 1936, so that makes me ..."

I mean, when you're six-and-three-quarters, you always know how old you are.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

well, I must be such-and-such an age, for that is how it feels to me!

One of my co-workers once came in in the morning and said, "I feel young! I feel twenty-seven!"