I'm fairly antisocial. In fact, I'd like to be a sort of Jeffersonian yeoman farmer and only see people infrequently when I have to go into town to purchase flour at the mill, or fabric for sewing up a new dress and apron once a year.
... that's unlikely to happen, alas.
"Impoverished gentility": that's us! We ARE in a beautiful setting out here with our tumbledown little cottage, and I expect we'll have eggs and jam to eat this winter, if nothing else. Interestingly, I'm much happier living this way than I would be if I were crowded amongst people in some city, spending money to try to distract myself from the misery of urban or suburban life...
However, since a *little* more money wouldn't hurt in keeping the tumbledown cottage from, er, tumbling all the way down:
Buy my book!
Here's my official "About the Author" statement:
"Llysse Smith Wylle is the author of The Art of Magic Words. She has been Pagan for many years and Wiccan for seven. She is a member of the Third Circle of the Tradition of Universal Eclectic Wicca; she also teaches and coordinates its First Circle degree via the Coven of the Far Flung Net. For a number of years, she has studied Chaos and other magical techniques privately, as well as with a small esoteric study society called the Order of the Golden Breath.
"In addition to teaching online, Ms. Wylle has also been a teacher of English at an elite private school in China. Her experiences as a writer are wide-ranging, as well: she's worked professionally as a journalist, an editor, a communications director, a PR manager and an online communications manager. Plus, for nearly as long as she could hold a pencil, Ms. Wylle has written poetry. That passion continues today, even if she has exchanged the worn pencil for a shiny laptop.
"Ms. Wylle lives in a ridge top cottage with her husband and a menagerie of chickens, cats, goats, fish and budgies, as well as a rotating cast of sick and injured wild creatures that she directs to the care of animal rehabilitation specialists."
Plus, here are 20 additional, random things you should know:
1. I can't seem to collect enough pretty chicken feathers. I have no idea what I'll do with them all.
2. I love stormy, rainy weather.
3. I like to do things in proper order, but I hate to do them a certain way just because it's the way they've always been done before. The "proper order" may change as the situation changes.
4. I think you should read my blog (link below).
5. I hate it when I can't find the right pan in my cabinets.
6. I'm generous, but it will hurt my feelings if my generosity is not appreciated or is being taken advantage of... or for that matter, if anyone else's is. I'll lose respect for you rather quickly that way.
7. I don't often watch TV; I prefer READING.
8. I don't trust or forgive easily.
9. I have an especial loathing for drunken apologies. Have the courtesy to talk to me when you're sober, can formulate logical, coherent thoughts and will remember what's been said from moment to moment.
10. I try hard to hold my tongue when people confuse the terms "less" and "fewer."
11. I don't care for people whose minds are closed... or for that matter, for people whose minds are Way Too Open. Show me a little evidence, or a least a little plausibility. If not, feel free to believe it yourself, but please don't expect me to join you.
12. I notice little things. For instance, I usually notice when you're upset, even if I may not immediately be able to determine why. In fact, sometimes I will notice you're upset or frustrated even when you didn't want me to.
13. I don't care for chocolate.
14. I think flavored coffees are for people with no taste whatsoever.
15. I am a morning person.
16. I am a geek: I like MST3K, Star Trek, roleplaying games, anime and other geeks. You may not at first know it to look at me, but you'll pick it up pretty quickly once you start speaking with me.
17. I am a good cook; I don't measure anything exactly unless I'm baking, and I usually season to taste--recipes be damned!
18. I'm most likely to argue with you when there is a pile of things on my kitchen table. It makes me irritable. Sorry about that.
19. Ever since I started cutting my own hair, I've gotten a zillion compliments on it. Go figure. Maybe people are at a loss for what else to say on the state of it.
20. I generally try to be polite--and I generally try to tell the truth. Sometimes these forces are at odds. Usually the truth wins out. I should add I don't really try to be polite when someone has just done or said something very rude (or very dishonest). Then I regard the social contract as having been broken, and I have no compunction in sharing my honesty around very bluntly indeed.
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