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About Me

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According to this very accurate quiz:
You Should Be A Poet
You craft words well, in creative and unexpected ways.
And you have a great talent for evoking beautiful imagery...
Or describing the most intense heartbreak ever.
You're already naturally a poet, even if you've never written a poem. What Type of Writer Should You Be?...And apparently I sit around in front of a window in my underwear. Because that's what poets do, according to this.

I'm also:
You are Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 95% Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 85% River (Stowaway) 75% Wash (Ship Pilot) 70% Inara Serra (Companion) 70% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 65% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 65% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 60% Alliance 30% A Reaver (Cannibal) 10% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 5% 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
I'm completing my MFA in poetry in 2 weeks! I teach English at Davenport University, among my many talents and jobs, and enjoy it immensely. We're in the process of finding a home to call our own and eventually have a family to fill it. Life is sweet!

My Interests

Poetry and literature, theater/acting, dance, music, current events/politics, quilting, crafts, art and creativity, the Sims....(whoops, I didn't want to tell anyone about that! ;) ) drum corps, sleeping in, yadda yadda yadda....

I'd like to meet:

People who are open-minded and fun, who love poetry and music and dance as much as I do! Having respectful and enlightening conversations about big issues is a must.

Also anyone associated with the following: The Office, Serenity/Firefly, and various musicians.

Music:

Maroon 5, Sarah McLachlan, Dido, Simon & Garfunkel, Queen, Natalie Merchant, Kelly Clarkson, U2, James Taylor

Movies:

Love Actually, Center Stage, Shag: the Movie, Bridget Jones' Diary, Dodgeball, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spiderman and Spiderman 2, X-Men and X-Men 2, Forrest Gump, Serenity

Television:

Don't watch it much, but I enjoy The Office and Lost.

Books:

Conversations With God Book 1, The Lovely Bones, White Oleander, Succulent Wild Woman and everything else by SARK, The Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter, Pride and Prejudice, Dave Barry's Guide to Guys, Rosie, Crooked Little Heart, High Fidelity

Heroes:

Rosa Parks, Ghandi, my mom and dad, Joan d'Arc...yeah, there's a lot of these.

My Blog

I'm Done

Love to the Betts who so kindly posted about me on her blog (I will repost that later, as it is written I should), but her words lit a fire under me. Or in me. One of the two. I know that ...
Posted by Issa on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:18:00 PST

NaNoWriMo

Welcome to November! November is National Novel Writing Month, a time of year in which we are all encouraged to write that novel that resides in all of us--whether it be the next great American novel,...
Posted by Issa on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:01:00 PST

And just so's y'all know....

The master's thesis is DONE--maybe a couple small revisions when I get comments back from my faculty mentory, but DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE!! 22 pages.....long and complicated title....yeah, it's a mas...
Posted by Issa on Mon, 15 May 2006 06:59:00 PST

If you want to read my blog.....

click here, because I'm not going to type it all out twice! LOL http://dancingviolet1010.blogspot.com
Posted by Issa on Thu, 04 May 2006 10:47:00 PST