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A Fishdragon's Ramblings
(Pisces born in the year of the dragon. Creative and unstable on BOTH scales!)
This journal may contain adult concepts.
Created on 2001-06-07 12:18:03 (#170021), last updated 2009-11-13
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Basic Info| Name: | El. Almeda Mason |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1976-03-09 |
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
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almeda@livejournal.com Bio"Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?" My interests are pretty eclectic, as you can see; my diary may make more sense taken chronologically from the first entry (early June, 2001).
To paraphrase from the (better) introduction in my first post, this journal is both a place for me to get stuff off my chest - to vent - and a venue to practice my writing skills through mini-essays on opinions and current events.
I'm an opinionated sort of gal, and some folks think I'm entertaining. I do know that I do better if I can get certain thoughts and ramblings down in black and white and look at them later (I always forget what I figured out, if I don't). This diary is, ultimately, for me, not for y'all. But I don't mind if you read it. It's personal, and bit surreal in spots, but I wouldn't be doing it in public if I weren't a bit of an exhibitionist - and you wouldn't be reading this if you weren't a little bit of a voyeur. :-> Drop me a comment if I say something that resonates with you, or makes you think - or makes you mad! I always know I've succeeded in being truly frank when it sparks emotions in others.
Don't be offended that I didn't list a website, or a non-lj email. This isn't precisely an anonymous diary (since if you already know me RL, you'll recognize me pretty damn fast from what's in here), but I would like to make sure that people looking for my Real Name don't turn up here randomly. Y'know, boss, insane uncle, stalker-of-choice ...
To paraphrase from the (better) introduction in my first post, this journal is both a place for me to get stuff off my chest - to vent - and a venue to practice my writing skills through mini-essays on opinions and current events.
I'm an opinionated sort of gal, and some folks think I'm entertaining. I do know that I do better if I can get certain thoughts and ramblings down in black and white and look at them later (I always forget what I figured out, if I don't). This diary is, ultimately, for me, not for y'all. But I don't mind if you read it. It's personal, and bit surreal in spots, but I wouldn't be doing it in public if I weren't a bit of an exhibitionist - and you wouldn't be reading this if you weren't a little bit of a voyeur. :-> Drop me a comment if I say something that resonates with you, or makes you think - or makes you mad! I always know I've succeeded in being truly frank when it sparks emotions in others.
Don't be offended that I didn't list a website, or a non-lj email. This isn't precisely an anonymous diary (since if you already know me RL, you'll recognize me pretty damn fast from what's in here), but I would like to make sure that people looking for my Real Name don't turn up here randomly. Y'know, boss, insane uncle, stalker-of-choice ...
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80's music, absolut ads, alison bechdel, alternative families, arranger porn, barenaked ladies, being musewhipped, board games, cheapass games, chicago, comic books, cooking, corrupting young minds, courtship rite, cryptozoology, dark angel, david bowie, doonesbury, dr. who, duran duran, eldering, etymology, fairy tales, fandom, fanzines, filk, filk music, filkhaven, filking, finder, first contact scenarios, flanders and swann, folklore, frank hayes, games, gaming, gearworld, gelflings, gender studies, genderqueer, girl genius, grammar, graphic novels, gretchen helfrich, grocery store french, guitar, guitars, healy mice, heinlein, hentai, hilary knight, history, honesty, ignatius, ikea, interesting garbage, japanese animation, jo walton, jonatha brooke, kodt, legends, les barker, leslie fish, letterboxing, liz phair, lois mcmaster bujold, lyrics, making people up, medieval, meetups, middle ages, molly ivins, monty python, multiracial, muppets, museums, mushing, music, myth, mythology, n'early music consort, neal stephenson, neil gaiman, neopets, nintendo 64, nonfiction, npr, ookla the mok, origami, ose bunnies, phil foglio, pillowfort, playing guitar, pratchett, puzzlebox, ranting, rasff, rasseff, reading, retro music, role-playing, roleplaying, rpgs, sapiosexual, sapiosexuality, sca, science fiction, scifi, serial killers, sewing, sexuality, sf cons, shakespeare, shelfari, shinies, silliness, simulating normal adult behavior, singable music, singing, sky captain, sluggy, society for creative anachronism, spinning, star trek, stealth geekery, stephen jay gould, superfluous technology, suzanne vega, talis kimberley, tanya huff, tavis smiley, telepathic redheads, temperance brennan, terry pratchett, the scorpions, they might be giants, timebinding, toesocks, tom lehrer, tom smith, tree-girt-sea, trilobites, unreliable narrators, video games, weaving, white wolf, women's studies, writing, xenobiology, xxxenophile
Schools:
Xavier Institute for Higher Learning - North Salem, NY (1983 - 1991)St. Ignatius College Prep - Chicago, IL (1989 - 1993)
University of Illinois at Chicago - Chicago, IL (1993 - 1997)
Transylvania Polygnostic University - Beetleburg, Transylvania, Romania (2005 - present)
Harold Washington College - Chicago, IL (2007 - present)
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