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Wen

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About Me

I'm an overweight middle-aged white woman with more baggage than the Titanic. I live and work in the Washington DC area. I am single, but not by choice, but because the alternative is intolerable to me. Until March 18th I shared my life with my cat Dmitri, who died that day and is greatly missed. I also have hundreds of books and a lesser number of CD's and DVDs. I am the aunt of a lovely 2 year old niece that I adore also the aunt of 4 adult nieces and nephew. I am also a great-aunt. I am particuarly proud of having been "The Offical Volunteer Staff Photographer for the Kennedy Center" about 10 years ago. Great Gig...

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My Interests

Art, Music, History, Literature, Crafts, England.... At the moment I'm acquiring an interest in Irish poetry. I'm taking a hiatus from school, I can't seem to figure out what I was doing it for.

I'd like to meet:

For Real: Michael McGlynn "Irish Composer" and Fantasy: Yoshua ben Yosef du Nazarene

Music:

I love all music, but right at the moment: John & Michael McGlynn, Anuna, I Really Love the Blues, Darren Holden, Simon Keenlyside, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Anuna, Renaissance, Chris Daughtry, Marty Casey, Jordis Unga, Brandon Calhoon, Anonymous 4, Clannad, Evanescence, Kate Bush, Stan Rogers, Delbert McClinton (30+ Years and still going strong), etc etc etc

Movies:

Many Many movies...The last one I saw was "The Band's Visit" very, very good.

Television:

Your results:
You are Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 90% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 60% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 60% River (Stowaway) 60% Wash (Ship Pilot) 45% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 45% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 40% Inara Serra (Companion) 20% A Reaver (Cannibal) 10% Alliance 10% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 0% You are good at fixing things.
You are usually cheerful.
You appreciate being treated
with delicacy and specialness.
Click here to take the Serenity Firefly Personality Test

Books:

Homer, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Spenser, Byron, Jane Austin, Anthony Trollope, Henry James, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Carl Sandburg, JD Robb, James McDevitt, "The Girl With The Pearl Earring" "Devinci Code", Biographies, histories (I'm really not that interested in anything that happened after 1800A.D. (All though I am a current politics junkie and watch or read whatever I have time for) and the occasional Robert B. Parker. Love Spenser, Hawk & Jesse Stone!

Heroes:

Shakespeare, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Sanger, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael McGlynn (Irish Composer) & Diane Rehm. Not necessarily in that order :) Diane Rehm is a Internationaly syndicated talk show host. She is a most brilliant and knowledgable lady.

My Blog

Review December 5, 2007

Anuna's Last ConcertI don't mean the Final Final concert, but tthe final concert in America for 2007. You could definitely tell that it was the final of 41 city tour. Exhaustion, fatique and homesickn...
Posted by Wen on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:47:00 PST

Bullying

After hearing a program on NPR this morning I realized that the reason why I'm still so angry about someone's treatment of me last year is that I was bullied.  I never realize it till now.  ...
Posted by Wen on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST

Ad for Cordless Screwdrive

I just saw this sentence in an ad: "Anything that has to be screwed, driven or tightened can be done with this amazng 6-inch ultra light device."Well it doesn't impress me. :DW...
Posted by Wen on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:53:00 PST

The Nine Aspects of Life

The 9 Aspects of Life   The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. T...
Posted by Wen on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:11:00 PST

An Old Essay

Echoes of Terror ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  I don't remember a time when I wasn't afraid growing up.  Screams ripped through the night like a ...
Posted by Wen on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:06:00 PST

November 2, 2007

One of the things I've always liked best about myself is that I don't feel particularly sorry for myself.  And trust me on this, I have cause to be.  But the last 6 months or so I've been wa...
Posted by Wen on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:06:00 PST

I'm Off-line for Awhile.

I'm off-line for awhile I have some things to think about.   W
Posted by Wen on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:19:00 PST

Things that Bug Me.

"Have you eaten?." is not a propostion, Guys. Friends who don't return your phone calls or e-mails Having to practically empty my bank account to attend two concerts. A 15lb cat who wants to use your ...
Posted by Wen on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:48:00 PST

Anuna DVD

Hey, Just got the "Official DVD" from MPT and I love it.  The sound is excellent!  The picture is fantastic.  You can even see every line, wrinkle & bag on Everyone's face!!!! ...
Posted by Wen on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:33:00 PST

QUOTES, SAYINGS APHORISMS SAGE WISDOM ETC

Hello, I have managed, totally without intention to really tick off some people that I really care about by my blogs, but since I really feel compelled to do something here, so I've decided to do...
Posted by Wen on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:08:00 PST