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koyotesdaughter
Schools:
- Prairie Hill Learning Center - Roca, NE (1986 - 1989)
- Randolph Elemetary School - Lincoln, NE (1989 - 1992)
- Lamar Middle School - Lewisville, TX (1992 - 1993)
- Glencoe Central School - Glencoe, IL (1993 - 1994)
- Mountain View Middle School - Mendham, NJ (1994 - 1995)
- 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)
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
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
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
