Mara Jen, SL-7047 - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm a perpetual tomboy and a huge geek. When I was young, I was tall and goofy-looking, and tried my best to blend into the wallpaper. Went off to college and had a revelation--the guys were taller than I was! Woo hoo! Also figured out that being smart is, for some men, very sexy. Now I'm a lawyer--yes, apparently the law gene runs in the family.I was all settled in, married with two gorgeous babies, ready to have a perfectly normal life, and then I met the 501st . . . Seriously, it's unbelievably gratifying to be with a group of people who go out of their way regularly to support a charity organization, and whose only motivation to dress up like goofballs and run around in public is to visit sick kids in hospitals and make them smile. Work can be depressing, and raising a family can be exhausting. Taking time out can be difficult. But it's all worthwhile when I hear one little hushed voice out of the crowd say to her mom, "Wow, she's really pretty."Anyone who's unfamiliar with the fabulous charity costuming group that dresses up like all the "bad guys" from "Star Wars" . . . dig it-----www.501st.com----- www.duneseagarrison.com-----I wasn't originally a Star Wars geek. My natural overabundance of that quality just naturally drew me to them . . . What Classic Pin-Up Are You?
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My Interests

I costume now, as a variety of different characters from different areas of entertainment. It's like perpetually working at Disneyland as Cinderella--kids rush up to you and want to talk to you, and people want to take their pictures with you, particularly if you're a Stormtrooper. No one can tell me that's not cool.I read a lot, in a wide variety of areas. I like to tinker on the computer, although it occasionally gives me the finger, purely for its own enjoyment. I've recently found a new passion for costuming, particularly when it involves making children smile.

I'd like to meet:

1.Other members of the 501st Stormtrooper Legion, Vader's Fist.2.Other Star Wars geeks of any size, shape, or hue.3.Just about anyone who's not trying to sell me something. My real blog: MARAJEN.BLOGSPOT.COMYour results:
You are Mystique Mystique 87% Dr. Doom 77% Lex Luthor 75% Poison Ivy 74% Apocalypse 73% Catwoman 70% Venom 69% The Joker 65% Magneto 64% Dark Phoenix 63% Kingpin 63% Green Goblin 59% Mr. Freeze 57% Juggernaut 51% Two-Face 51% Riddler 47% Sometimes motherly, sometimes a beautiful companion, but most of the time a deceiving vixen.
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Music:

70's rock (Boston, Kansas, Steve Miller), 80's hair metal, 90's "alternative" (which by that time was a total misnomer). Oh, and a guy you might know by the name of ELVIS. Burning love, indeed. :)

Movies:

Have been consumed by the Star Wars universe. Other favorites are Smokey and the Bandit, Pillow Talk, Super Troopers, Dazed and Confused, Zorro the Gay Blade. . . yes, my tastes are somewhat eclectic.

Television:

I can't watch anything regularly, so I pick up bits and pieces of stuff like C.S.I., Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe (hot!), and the late-night shows on the History Channel and Travel Channel about (1) haunted places and (2) aliens. That kind of thing lightens my load a bit.

Books:

I tend to read somewhat light stuff that I can crank through fairly quickly . . . I have so much other reading to do in great depth that relaxation time means chick lit or cheesy romance novels or the newspaper. You know, entertaining fiction. Also becoming interested in dark fantasy fiction.

Heroes:

My mom, my dad, my mentor Bill, and TD-0013.---------------Some words of wisdom, passed along via a friend wiser than I: "I have found, too, that it is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed than to be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally. This is to endorse empathy, not naivetÃ©. . . The finest of friends must sometimes be stern sentinels, who will insist that we become what we have the power to become. The "no" of such stern sentinels is more to be prized than a "yes" of others. God's seeming sternness is actually a sweetness beyond our comprehension."

My Blog

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Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:49:00 PST

Weirdness this week.

Okay, so here it is. I have a lot more free time on my hands all of a sudden. This is good news in a way, because I have a lot of crap that I have to catch up on. P.R.O. stuff. I.S.O...
Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:41:00 PST

my sick scrappy head

"I GET ALL THE RANDOM DISEASES.'"
Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:26:00 PST

Stay on target! Stay on target!

Focus, people. Eyes on the prize. All that cheesy shit that they throw at you when you're doing stuff like taking the Bar exam. Getting shelled from outside? Shake it off. Would rather s...
Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:48:00 PST

New Years weirdness.

Two hours to New Year's. My little brotherman just celebrated it on the East coast. I MISS YOU, BROTHERMAN. I NEED TO GOLF. The last couple of weeks have seemed to be a parade ...
Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 09:38:00 PST

Foggy brain.

I use this font in honor of my friend Adam, and the endless array of shit that's he's forced to deal with at work. It's what we get for being bureaucrats (and the Keeper of the Bureauc...
Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:38:00 PST

Chaos.

That time of year again . . . kids, birthdays, holidays, Christmas cards, the filthy savages, the house, costuming, P.R.O.-ness, I.S.O.-ness, pictures!, my new 1/2 admin, working out, staying san...
Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:53:00 PST

I am fire.

..> ..http://quizfarm.com//images/1159568850CAMF4DQJ.jpg" > You scored as You Represent the Dark Element of Fire!, You represent Fire! You are one of the best leaders of your school and you ar...
Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:54:00 PST

The Big Blog Question.

My real blog is here: http://marajen.blogspot.com/ Part of me is tempted to start blogging here, though. The disadvantage to that is that then my brothers will be subjected to all my Star Wars c...
Posted by Mara Jen, SL-7047 on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:41:00 PST