User Profile

Hmm... Seems a little narcissistic to actually sit down and type a carefully compartmentalized, mini-biography of yourself for anyone to see. But then again, that's the whole point of this journal, n'est-ce pas?

So, here goes...

I love to write. I don't have the time for it that I wish I had, but I know that when I don't purge the stories in my head on paper, I get this strange creative buildup and end up frustrated. Before I began to write in earnest, I spent a lot of time daydreaming and wishing I could paint, wishing I was the actress I knew I could be, with training, wishing I was a better creative writer -- all so that I could express myself. Now all I have to do is sit at my computer and let it all flow. Good, bad or ugly, at least it makes me happy.

I've just recently gotten married, literally in the middle of a hurricane. THAT was fun. I'm a complete X-Files dork and Harry Potter fanatic. It's difficult choosing my favorite HP characters because I love most of them, but I have a hard to explain devotion to Severus Snape. (Don't ask -- it would take all day to justify it.) I feel I relate most to Hermione, but I'm sure most female readers would tell you the same.

I've been active in the XF community for three years now, and have been the recipient of some awards and honorable mentions. I lurk in the HP community, and plan to keep quiet there so that I have SOME sort of life outside the Internet. LOL.

I am: a server, mother of a five year-old girl, wife of my high school sweetheart, 27 years old, brunette, dark brown-eyed, dissatisfied with my current life's path, constant dreamer, sister of three, aunt of three, generally happy, user of too many adverbs, fanatical editor, bookworm and my harshest critic. I overshare when I'm drunk, I overshare sometimes in this journal. I never catch my own mistakes when I proofread. I take pride in my extensive vocabulary, but don't consider myself to be overly smart. I'm a member of the St. Augustine Community Chorus. I have never managed to get through Wuthering Heights. I'm most inspired when I'm browsing the library or bookstore. Something about the smell of books. I love Jane Austen, Anita Blake, the Vampire Chronicles, Phantom of the Opera and singing. I dislike most country music and all light jazz, but love almost every other genre in between. I'm interested in learning all I can about Wicca, yet I doubt I'll stray far from my slightly New Agey, very loose Christian upbringing. My ideal religion would be a combination of the two.

I'm deathly afraid of heights, confined spaces, and of waking up one day, old, and realizing I've wasted my life. There isn't much I don't want to try in this life, and fervently wish I had several lives to live, each one completely different from the last, until I'm so full of experience that I'm choking on it. That's some of the appeal of writing, though I suppose it's sort of escapist as well. I'm taking singing lessons soon and am now in college to become a rad tech.

Amazing how long a person can blather on about themselves, huh? LOL.

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