a little bit about me
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keriOkay so I should probably share a little more about me, since I am building a circle (Hello!)
I am in my mid-30s and live in Florida. I work in fundraising back-office for a university, which has an art museum, which is where I previously worked for a long time. (My favorite art is color field, I love abstract stuff that explores color and material.) I briefly went to library school, because archives and museums are my passion, but I sort of fell into fundraising database work and got promoted to the central university office. I'm lucky it worked out that I can still have my pink hair. I have it done in a balyage/dip-dye style, and I would be really sad to have to cut the pink off - I've been dyeing it like this since 2011!
I live about 5 miles from a national park/eco preserve, and when my mental health is good and the weather isn't too disgustingly humid, I love riding my bike up there to picnic and read. But I've done so less over the last year because I've picked up a new hobby: quilting! I've always loved the idea of quilting, and when my sister got pregnant a while back, I finally had an excuse to do it. I love crafting and doing art, but I dislike leaving half-finished paintings around, and i'm too slow at knitting. Quilts are a perfect artistic outlet.
My other interests are in old movies and books. I was pretty active in the VintageAds community on LJ, I'm a fan of Collectors Weekly, and basically really enjoy seeing how other people live. So old movies and books are tops. I tend to avoid anything too suspenseful or scary, and I really like B-list movies or young people's fiction. I like new books, too, and books that experiment with narrative structure. You can find me at Librarything (not Goodreads!) if you'd like to know more about my reading. I'll probably cross-post my post-book brain dumps here, as I did with Howl's Moving Castle the other day.
My all-time favorite movie is We're Rich Again from 1934. It's pretty ordinary, nothing special, but it really works for me. It's an early screwball, a comedy of money during the Depression - rich family is broke, tries to get rich again. It's got Edna May Oliver as a polo-playing aunt (she's carried around by a bevy of rugged polo players) and Billie Burke in one of her earlier ditzy-mom roles and whatshisface the actor who was formerly an Olympic swimmer, and he spends 99% of the movie in his swimsuit. So it's entertaining, but I love that older daughter character's happy ending is to go to New York to be an author, not to get married. It's special and fun. I also love that Marian Marsh's character is a backwoods Texas hick named Arabella, but in truth she's the cleverest person in the family, and she turns stereotypes and misogyny on their heads. It's got problems - it's a little racist, the family has a Japanese servant who is studying to be a lawyer, and that is played for laughs at parts (but I don't know that it's any more than the other characters are made jokes of) - and it really isn't particularly special filmography or sets or anything. But I love it so much! I recommend it for a lark, it's not very long and Edna May Oliver and Billie Burke are always worth your time.
I'm not sure what else is worth sharing about me for a quick who am I, but I was somewhat active in The Toast's comment section, and I played Kingdom of Loathing for years (I still would, but life has got busy).
I do not have Facebook but I am on Twitter. I started on LiveJournal in...2002? 2003? but had been online in various ways since 1997, when I joined Harper's Tale MOO (a Pern-theme rpg).
I am in my mid-30s and live in Florida. I work in fundraising back-office for a university, which has an art museum, which is where I previously worked for a long time. (My favorite art is color field, I love abstract stuff that explores color and material.) I briefly went to library school, because archives and museums are my passion, but I sort of fell into fundraising database work and got promoted to the central university office. I'm lucky it worked out that I can still have my pink hair. I have it done in a balyage/dip-dye style, and I would be really sad to have to cut the pink off - I've been dyeing it like this since 2011!
I live about 5 miles from a national park/eco preserve, and when my mental health is good and the weather isn't too disgustingly humid, I love riding my bike up there to picnic and read. But I've done so less over the last year because I've picked up a new hobby: quilting! I've always loved the idea of quilting, and when my sister got pregnant a while back, I finally had an excuse to do it. I love crafting and doing art, but I dislike leaving half-finished paintings around, and i'm too slow at knitting. Quilts are a perfect artistic outlet.
My other interests are in old movies and books. I was pretty active in the VintageAds community on LJ, I'm a fan of Collectors Weekly, and basically really enjoy seeing how other people live. So old movies and books are tops. I tend to avoid anything too suspenseful or scary, and I really like B-list movies or young people's fiction. I like new books, too, and books that experiment with narrative structure. You can find me at Librarything (not Goodreads!) if you'd like to know more about my reading. I'll probably cross-post my post-book brain dumps here, as I did with Howl's Moving Castle the other day.
My all-time favorite movie is We're Rich Again from 1934. It's pretty ordinary, nothing special, but it really works for me. It's an early screwball, a comedy of money during the Depression - rich family is broke, tries to get rich again. It's got Edna May Oliver as a polo-playing aunt (she's carried around by a bevy of rugged polo players) and Billie Burke in one of her earlier ditzy-mom roles and whatshisface the actor who was formerly an Olympic swimmer, and he spends 99% of the movie in his swimsuit. So it's entertaining, but I love that older daughter character's happy ending is to go to New York to be an author, not to get married. It's special and fun. I also love that Marian Marsh's character is a backwoods Texas hick named Arabella, but in truth she's the cleverest person in the family, and she turns stereotypes and misogyny on their heads. It's got problems - it's a little racist, the family has a Japanese servant who is studying to be a lawyer, and that is played for laughs at parts (but I don't know that it's any more than the other characters are made jokes of) - and it really isn't particularly special filmography or sets or anything. But I love it so much! I recommend it for a lark, it's not very long and Edna May Oliver and Billie Burke are always worth your time.
I'm not sure what else is worth sharing about me for a quick who am I, but I was somewhat active in The Toast's comment section, and I played Kingdom of Loathing for years (I still would, but life has got busy).
I do not have Facebook but I am on Twitter. I started on LiveJournal in...2002? 2003? but had been online in various ways since 1997, when I joined Harper's Tale MOO (a Pern-theme rpg).
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Date: 2018-12-06 05:52 am (UTC)Also, a MOO! I play on a MUSH these days. It's a dying breed, but I love it a lot.
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Date: 2018-12-07 01:38 am (UTC)I'm also allergic to wool or ultrasensitive to the prickliness, so I don't have as much fun with fibers as people who can handle wools without their hands going red and raw. Quilting gives me so many more colorful options! :D
I am a little bit surprised that MUSHes are still around! But I guess they're fancy telnet/chatrooms in the end, compared to other RPG options. I never could get into asynchronous bboard RPGs without the emote options and rooms and +finger and etc etc. I see RPGs on twitter and tumblr and can't figure out how anyone manages!
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Date: 2018-12-07 08:45 pm (UTC)But quilting is a really lovely hobby. I absolutely don't have the space in my house to take it up (every corner is overflowing with yarn), but I admire quilting greatly! And embroidery, oh gosh, I do kind of want to learn to embroider.
Yeah, MUSHes are a bit of a dying breed, but there's a certain generation that grew up with them and still enjoy them! And I think if anyone is a reader and likes writing, they're a fun time. I've made some good friends through mine! I did a lot of roleplay through LJ in Ye Olden Days though, too, and through AOL Instant Messenger (ow wow nostalgia), so I've run the gamut. They all have their strengths. :)