Well, everyone always seems to want a page that tells them about the person who is writing the page. Here's me...
I am a 24 year old female. I have red hair, and sometimes green eyes. They're weird...they change color and have been green, brown, gray, hazel, my hair color, and even blue, though that's only happened once. I have freckles that have mostly disappeared since I don't spend much time (read, no time) outside. I'm actually just as glad, since I am also intsa-burn woman. I got married last August and am extremely happy!
I was born in Wellesley, MA, a long time ago. Well, I was actually born next door in Newton, since Wellesley isn't zoned for fast food, liquor stores, or hospitals. And I lived there for a while. I went to Honeywell Elementary, and then Wellesley Middle and High Schools. Well, I moved a lot in that time period. I spent 6 months each in Port St. Lucie, Florida; Victoria, British Columbia; Granville, Ohio; and Boulder, Colorado. And I spent a year in Boulder at another time at a slightly different address, same apartment building, different apartment. I went to school at (P)Uni Hill Elementary near CU. My parents are now retired astronomy professors. You wouldn't think that would let you move around a lot, but that never seemed to stop them.
In 1979, my parents bought land out near Glen Haven, Colorado, near Estes Park, if anyone knows where that is. The next year they built a house on that land. I don't remember much of that, since I was only 4, but I remember some of it...like living in a tent for the whole summer. We chased a lot of chipmunks. The house was just a summer cabin with several fairly small rooms. In 1988, we put an addition on the house. This included a nice master bedroom for my parents and a storage area, which we used for our washer and dryer, and all sorts of other stuff. We spent summers out in Colorado every year until just after my freshman year of high school.
That summer, 1990, we moved out to Colorado permanently. I was in Germany at the time, so I didn't have to worry about the move. Having made several since then, I'm just as glad. In any case, we ended up in the Retreat, and my parents still live there, when they're home at all. After living a few years in our cabin, which had been designed as a summer house, the addition not withstanding, my parents decided to build a new house, especially since the property they had been drooling over for 10 years went on the market.
So they built a new house on top of the hill, instead of in the bottom of a valley. And that's where I lived until I went to college.
My parents both used to teach at Wellesley College, where I used to live. Then my dad left, but my mom never did. She kept on taking leaves of absence instead. This was very useful when I went to college. I applied and was accepted to Wellesley, much to my surprise. I even got to go there, since we had a fair amount of tuition remitted since my mom worked there. I liked this idea. It meant that I ended up with only $1500 in loans instead of tens of thousands.
Anyway, I was in college. I didn't do a lot of the normal college things. I didn't go to frat parties. I didn't get drunk every weekend, though one of my RAs gave us things like Bacardi sours when we wanted them. I didn't learn to open beer bottles with my toes or anything useful like that, either. To put it bluntly, I was boring. Very, very boring. I spent most of my time in my room reading...and not reading text books. Most of my friends came from the Glee Club and Choir.
The next year I discovered the SCA on campus, Felding Medieval Society...very cool people. Well, I had a friend back home who had actually introduced me to them, so I wasn't a complete newbie, but I didn't really have too much to do with it. That year, I spent a bit of time with the SCAdians and a bit with my choir friends and the rest I still stayed in my room.
Anyway, I joined the SCA, and the following year, I started to actually do things, like make garb, mostly because Shawna moved in next to me. She was great, and we started doing everything together. She got me into Anime (Japanese animation), mostly a silly one called Sailor Moon. It's very cute, most of the time, though it does get serious.
I also started going to dance practice that year. I am very glad that I did. I had an absolute blast, and started meeting people who were at the events so I would have other people to talk to. And then I met Tim, my husband. No, he wasn't my husband, yet...:P
I started going to every event I could manage, so I could spend more time with him. And after I dropped several lead bricks on him, we started seeing each other when we weren't part of the SCA. And things just went from there.
Well, anyway, I left college in the middle of my final year at Wellesley. Don't ask, please. And I moved in with my ex-not-roommate Shawna and her now-apartment-mate David. I got a job and worked for a while. Then we all moved to a new apartment, and Tim moved in with us. And I lost that first job and got another job. Then Tim proposed to me...*BOUNCE* And then that company went away and I got another job...*sigh* I'm very happy where I'm working right now. I get to play on the internet for fun...*bounce* Last June, Tim and I moved into an apartment on our own, and we are very happy. We got married in August, and we're coming up on six months, right after Valentine's Day.
This page last updated 02/16/2000. If you have any questions/problems, please write me.