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Ayn

The things that would seem to be the most negative were the most important in forming me as a writer

About Me


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with MySpace) Married (8 years), High School English Teacher, No kids, No pets, Getting my Masters at UHD in Curriculum and Instruction I'm involved in a LOT of organizations including: Houston Women Writers Co-Op, Meetin.org (I'm the subgroup leader for the diet fitness program--not because I'm fit--because I need to be), No Kidding (a social group for adults who don't plan to have children), and a professional organization (NCTE).


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My Interests

meetin.org- I love this site! You can do all KINDS of interesting things in Houston and meet great people besides! diet/fitness- I might as well make my greatest need a hobby:) writing- Currently working on a YA series. reading- When I can... cultural exploration- I do as many cultural things as I can--ethnic foods and festivals, plays, museums, you name it! organic foods, massage, aromatherapy, travel, bed + breakfasts, spiritual exploration, the list goes on:)

I'd like to meet:

Other teachers, People who love to read, People who love to write (especially YA Novels and Chick Lit), Organic Foodies, Cutural Explorers,

Music:

80s Music. Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, Sheryl Crow, Matchbox Twenty. Evanescence...Whatever I hear on the radio that has GOOD lyrics sung with a unique, hard-hitting voice.

Movies:

Favorite Inspirational Teacher Movie: Renaissance Man. Favorite Foreign Film with a Twist: Life is Beautiful. Favorite Foreign Film that made me laugh: Shall We Dance? Favorite Film Based on Truth: Hotel Rwanda. Film I've seen the most and STILL love: Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Favorite Films Written by People who became big time celebrities AFTER their release: Good Will Hunting and Sling Blade. Favorite Actress: Jodi Foster. Favorite Actor: Probably Jim Carrey.

Television:

Law N Order (all of them, especially SVU); Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Medium, American Idol, Beauty and the Geek. I watch entirely too much TV!

Books:

The Bible (esp Proverbs), To Kill a Mockingbird, Shakespearean works (esp. Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, and Julius Caesar), Feeling Sorry for Celia, Ellen Foster, Words by Heart, She's Come Undone, Where the Heart Is, Most of Dean Koontz's books

Heroes:

Personal Life: My Mother (recently passed away after a perseverent, resilient life) and Patti Conti (friend of the family who died of a terminal illness), My Career: Annie Sullivan, Marva Collins, Jaime Escalante, In History: Mother Theresa, Nelson Mendela, Ghandi

My Blog

Done:)

With the rough draft of my novel.  Not the one I did in November.  This is the one I nanoed in December (wrote 50,000+ words in a month) and vowed to finish by January 30th. I finished yeste...
Posted by Ayn on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:03:00 PST

My Politics

You are a   Social Moderate (55% permissive)and an...   Economic Liberal (23% permissive)You are best described as a:  Democrat      -->this width sets social ...
Posted by Ayn on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:32:00 PST

I won Nanowrimo!

I managed to get to 60,000 words of the rough draft of my novel with 9 days to spare  In the Houston forum of Nanowrimo (the other Houston writers trying to write a novel during the month of Nove...
Posted by Ayn on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:32:00 PST

My Novel

The organization that dares people to write a rough draft of a novel during the month of November (National Novel Writing Month) requires that participants must write 50,000 words (about 150 pages) du...
Posted by Ayn on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:21:00 PST

survey again

1. Do you still talk with the person you LAST kissed?haha, I sure hope so:)2. Have you ever seen your best friend cry?definitely.  We're big criers, and because I'm a crier, criers cry in front o...
Posted by Ayn on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 09:16:00 PST

Mystery Dinner 2

  Okay, so I promised folks at NoKidding that I would facilitate a mystery dinner w them when they found out that I do them w my students.  I was originally going to do the script w NoKiddi...
Posted by Ayn on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:27:00 PST

Mystery Dinner

Thinks that Rocked: 1.  My costume--heehee, it was so much fun to wear it And kudos also go to Ms. Coggins' emo costume, Alexa's peekachu (sp?), Jennifer's M&M, Meaghan's lady bug, Whate...
Posted by Ayn on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:26:00 PST

This Week's Highlights

Well, this week has been interesting.  Let's do a top ten: 10.  I got a second opinion.  After going to the psychic a few weeks ago, I thought why not go to another one to see if the re...
Posted by Ayn on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:56:00 PST

The Most Endearing Thing...

that happened this week was when I asked one of my students where her Scarlet Ibis story was and she said, "I took it home."  Then, I asked her why and she said, "I read it to my mom.  She l...
Posted by Ayn on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:48:00 PST

Another survey

This one from Gretchen .. type=text/javascript>if(top != self){top.location.replace(self.location.href);}..>   MySpace.com | Help | SignOut  Web | MySpace | People | Music...
Posted by Ayn on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:45:00 PST