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| User: | koyotesdaughter (7338197) 
Frankly, My Dear
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| Name: | koyotesdaughter |
| Bio: | I can't tell you who I am; I keep changing as I go. I can tell you who I was and some of who I hope to be. You'll have to draw your own conclusions. A teacher once called me, "Terse to a fault," and the Chinese zodiac insists I am, "Selfish and eccentric." These things are not untrue.
For many years I was a student. Most of us were. I excelled at such quantified learning, despite being quite a shameful scholar. I was an actress for a while, but I was frightened off by the uncertainty at a low point in my life. I was a teacher, too, of swing and samba and tango and waltz. Before that, I was a dancer myself. All this while I was still a student.
I tried my hand at the myth of the real world for a while, writing software in the financial industry and courting a normal life. I spent three years in Chicago and another in London trying to believe in this dream, before I accepted that it was not for me.
Through it all, I've travelled. I've been a backpacker and a jet-setter. I've seen twenty countries on five continents, but none of them nearly well enough. I speak English natively, French fluently, Spanish passably and German laughably. I don't understand the concept of "home," and I've always been better at making friends than keeping them. I have a forty-eight page passport, because the last one ran out of space too soon.
I'm currently on my way to the fringe. I've given up the well-salaried place in the real world, and I'm headed to the Rockies, hoping someone will hire me as a ski instructor. My grand plans don't extend beyond the season; I'm just taking some time to see what the universe brings me.
latest obsession: flickr.
also find me here: The Looking Glass Life: A Commitmentphobe's Guide To Running Away From Your Problems |
| Memories:: | 7 entries |
| Interests: | 19: ballet, ballroom dancing, bohemia, books, buffy, flickr, grrm, lindy hop, linguistics, london, maxence fermine, messing about in boats, salsa, shakespeare, shamanic mystics, sherman alexie, skiing, tom robbins, travel |
| Schools: | Randolph Elemetary School - Lincoln, NE (1989 - 1992)
Lamar Middle School - Lewisville, TX (1992 - 1993)
Glencoe Central School - Glencoe, IL (1993 - 1994)
Western Reserve Academy - Hudson, OH (1995 - 1999)
National High School Institute at Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (1998)
Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (1999 - 2003)
University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia (2001)
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| Friends: |  | 99: | 2pumps, after_nightfall, afterthesunrise, alanashinean, alkhobarspecial, anothersunrises, atatamanukah, babylibra7, balefont, bazzlebane, blanchemains, blondealert, catrionamacnair, cersei_caress, claireellen, cswallow, cureless, dajamieson, dallawithchild, daremo, davidwolkind, eefster, etrangere, evenfall_writer, flouritephoenix, fromtheblonde, furriebarry, generalblossom, gillianm, grrm, guppyur, harrytheheir, hereward77, hippoiathanatoi, icemannorth, innenwelt, isis_newton, j_away, jmdorfman, johnny_cope, kalbear, kama_police, katherinevalet, kingfisher1, korosz, lacyintx, linkabird, lodengarl, lonerhino, maltaran, mandyly1977, matociquala, metzhead, michnessiest, misunderstruck, mrsquidward, muddyslush, niamhotoole, novaspud, odiedragon, osl, parrismcb, philsphilms, pinkbananasplit, puppybane, queenofthorns, racebannon42, recoveredweasel, regina_of_york, rockstarwookie, sermelt, silanah, silvertistel, sivestrit, skip_chieftain, skylarkthered, slickmongoose, sodzilla, songsofautumn, sorceressn, stegoking, sunlitdays, teebes, tenalpia, tenar, tenminutetimer, terraprime, thatames, the_corbie, thebadlady, thesagebean, tom_foster, uberneedle, werthead, williamjm, xraytheenforcer, ydub, zakalwe7, zollo_the_fat |  | 13: | anti_rans, book_icons, coloradosnow, diamondfields, eels, galactica_icons, ljtravel, paidmembers, snowsports, travel_writers, travel_writing, tree_haven, world_travel |  | 9: | bunnycomic, businessofgreen, cd_lookingglass, flickrblog, janeespenson, onion_sag, paleoguy_blog, westeros_feed, xkcd_rss |
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| Mutual Friends: | 90: 2pumps, after_nightfall, anothersunrises, atatamanukah, babylibra7, balefont, bazzlebane, blanchemains, blondealert, catrionamacnair, cersei_caress, claireellen, cswallow, cureless, dajamieson, dallawithchild, daremo, davidwolkind, eefster, etrangere, evenfall_writer, flouritephoenix, fromtheblonde, furriebarry, generalblossom, gillianm, grrm, guppyur, harrytheheir, hereward77, hippoiathanatoi, icemannorth, innenwelt, isis_newton, jmdorfman, johnny_cope, kama_police, katherinevalet, kingfisher1, korosz, lacyintx, linkabird, lodengarl, lonerhino, maltaran, mandyly1977, metzhead, michnessiest, misunderstruck, mrsquidward, muddyslush, niamhotoole, novaspud, odiedragon, osl, parrismcb, philsphilms, pinkbananasplit, puppybane, queenofthorns, racebannon42, recoveredweasel, regina_of_york, rockstarwookie, sermelt, silanah, silvertistel, sivestrit, skip_chieftain, skylarkthered, slickmongoose, sodzilla, songsofautumn, sorceressn, stegoking, tenalpia, tenar, tenminutetimer, terraprime, thatames, the_corbie, thesagebean, tom_foster, uberneedle, werthead, williamjm, xraytheenforcer, ydub, zakalwe7, zollo_the_fat |
| Member of: | 3: anti_rans, eels, paidmembers |
| Account type: | Paid Account |
