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30 Days of Meme - Day 1
Sep. 30th, 2010 09:44 pmOK so you know that meme I keep saying I will do? I also keep putting it off. So let's bite the bullet and start okay?
Here's Day 01 - Introduce Yourself
Most of y'all kinda know me by now! However, some of you are actually newish 'round these parts, so I'll tell you a little bit and then we can be done with this day. :)
I am GOING TO BE 29 ON SATURDAY, FOLKS. That is how old I am. LAST YEAR OF TWENTIES OLD. I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED. Okay, moving on! I am married to Ryan, who was my high school sweetheart if you can have one of those when you are homeschooled as a teenager, and we have a 14-month old daughter, Sophie. Somehow, she has come to be less shocking to me than my age is. I wonder when that happened?
I was a school librarian before we moved to Vermont. I taught in a K-8 school in the middle of nowhere, New Hampshire. I miss it, but a) there aren't many jobs to be had for me around here right now and b) as much as we really, really could use the money, I am happy to be home with Sophie while she is small, so I'm not really looking very hard. Sometime I would like to part-time librarian again, but we'll get there when we get there.
I have been around LJ since the dark ages, whenever those were, I don't remember anymore. I am a maintainer at [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], and that's very important to me even though I have far less time/energy for it than I used to due to having my hands full of toddler. VP developed and maintained my geekdom in the areas of feminism, women's health, and sexuality. I was also a peer sex educator in college.
Nowadays, I can be found in parenting communities on LJ too (mostly P101 and [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]), and now and then I still find time to dabble in fandom and graphics communities, though that is very rare.
Fandom, you say? Why, yes! I am a bit of a media junkie, though lately that's pretty TVcentric just because that's what I have time and energy for. I'm a Whedon fan, but I also watch like, half the things under the sun that are not reality TV. I value TV with plot, in much the same way I value books. Yes, me, a librarian! Knowledge should be smelly and all that, and books are kind of sacred...but what I mean is, plot is plot, and I definitely over-identify with fictional characters. Whether they are on screen or in books doesn't matter so much to me. I'm not saying the TV shows have to be *quality* or anything, I just like plot. :)
I also eat food. Like, I actually see that as part of who I am, to a degree, because I have the luxury of choosing my food with conscience and politics in mind. I'm not really a vegetarian in that I eat fish, but I eat no other meat, so...pesca-vegetarian is, I guess, the term? Anyway, so there's that. I've been a vegetarian all my life, but I don't see it as being as important as other dietary choices I make. I think it's more important to eat locally, seasonally, and organically when possible, etc. It's not possible for everyone to make an effort to do those things, but it's possible for me - and given that, I see how I eat (in a general sense) as being just as important as how I vote. It's important in a different way, and some overlapping ways actually. I won't go on about this, because this subject is totally it's own post at least - but I love food, and cooking, and I think about what I eat. It turns out I have tons of things to say about eating, actually, so...yeah, I'll come back to it sometime.
Other things I am interested in: BPAL (http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com), yoga (I used to do it every day! Now I go to toddler yoga once a week, and sometimes a mom class. But yeah, it's a goal for the future ;)), photography (I used to take pictures like an emo college kid, because I was more or less one of those), pop culture, music, and a zillion other things that I dabble around in via the vast reaches of the magical int0rnetz. I...am running out of ideas and it is bed time, so if you are someone who doesn't know me well and you have questions about things I left out, go ahead and ask. :)
To everyone who had to re-read this very basic primer on Sarah, forgive me, I feel totally like a navel-gazer right now. But I like this meme, in that I like reading about everybody else and a lot of the questions are fun in theory, so. Here we go!
( 30 Days of Meme - the list of subjects )
Here's Day 01 - Introduce Yourself
Most of y'all kinda know me by now! However, some of you are actually newish 'round these parts, so I'll tell you a little bit and then we can be done with this day. :)
I am GOING TO BE 29 ON SATURDAY, FOLKS. That is how old I am. LAST YEAR OF TWENTIES OLD. I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED. Okay, moving on! I am married to Ryan, who was my high school sweetheart if you can have one of those when you are homeschooled as a teenager, and we have a 14-month old daughter, Sophie. Somehow, she has come to be less shocking to me than my age is. I wonder when that happened?
I was a school librarian before we moved to Vermont. I taught in a K-8 school in the middle of nowhere, New Hampshire. I miss it, but a) there aren't many jobs to be had for me around here right now and b) as much as we really, really could use the money, I am happy to be home with Sophie while she is small, so I'm not really looking very hard. Sometime I would like to part-time librarian again, but we'll get there when we get there.
I have been around LJ since the dark ages, whenever those were, I don't remember anymore. I am a maintainer at [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], and that's very important to me even though I have far less time/energy for it than I used to due to having my hands full of toddler. VP developed and maintained my geekdom in the areas of feminism, women's health, and sexuality. I was also a peer sex educator in college.
Nowadays, I can be found in parenting communities on LJ too (mostly P101 and [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]), and now and then I still find time to dabble in fandom and graphics communities, though that is very rare.
Fandom, you say? Why, yes! I am a bit of a media junkie, though lately that's pretty TVcentric just because that's what I have time and energy for. I'm a Whedon fan, but I also watch like, half the things under the sun that are not reality TV. I value TV with plot, in much the same way I value books. Yes, me, a librarian! Knowledge should be smelly and all that, and books are kind of sacred...but what I mean is, plot is plot, and I definitely over-identify with fictional characters. Whether they are on screen or in books doesn't matter so much to me. I'm not saying the TV shows have to be *quality* or anything, I just like plot. :)
I also eat food. Like, I actually see that as part of who I am, to a degree, because I have the luxury of choosing my food with conscience and politics in mind. I'm not really a vegetarian in that I eat fish, but I eat no other meat, so...pesca-vegetarian is, I guess, the term? Anyway, so there's that. I've been a vegetarian all my life, but I don't see it as being as important as other dietary choices I make. I think it's more important to eat locally, seasonally, and organically when possible, etc. It's not possible for everyone to make an effort to do those things, but it's possible for me - and given that, I see how I eat (in a general sense) as being just as important as how I vote. It's important in a different way, and some overlapping ways actually. I won't go on about this, because this subject is totally it's own post at least - but I love food, and cooking, and I think about what I eat. It turns out I have tons of things to say about eating, actually, so...yeah, I'll come back to it sometime.
Other things I am interested in: BPAL (http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com), yoga (I used to do it every day! Now I go to toddler yoga once a week, and sometimes a mom class. But yeah, it's a goal for the future ;)), photography (I used to take pictures like an emo college kid, because I was more or less one of those), pop culture, music, and a zillion other things that I dabble around in via the vast reaches of the magical int0rnetz. I...am running out of ideas and it is bed time, so if you are someone who doesn't know me well and you have questions about things I left out, go ahead and ask. :)
To everyone who had to re-read this very basic primer on Sarah, forgive me, I feel totally like a navel-gazer right now. But I like this meme, in that I like reading about everybody else and a lot of the questions are fun in theory, so. Here we go!
( 30 Days of Meme - the list of subjects )
