The State Of The Wendy
Jan. 22nd, 2008 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzskiI know I've picked a couple of new readers lately - most of whom I have never actually met. So in an efforts to show them what they are in for and that it's not the All Cloverfield All The Time Blog (Obsessive wendy is Obsessing), here is some stuff about me.
I'm 41, single, short and loud.
I'm usually some variety of redhead, depending on what brand is on sale this week. I think my hair was originally brown, but since I've not seen it since high school I'm not entirely sure. I am originally from northern NJ but came to college in the Chicago area (Northwestern - theatre) and just never left. Now I live in a 1BR on the north side of Chicago, and the primary decor in my living room is framed One-Sheets (Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Godzilla 85 and soon Cloverfield), reproduction ukiyo-e prints, and books.
I've been working at Renaissance Faires since age 14 - booths, street theatre, swordwork, storytelling, and now music. I was with Minstrosity for 9 seasons and 3 CDs, and am now 1/3 of Merry Measure.
We are preparing for our 2nd touring season and working on our 1st CD - a source of much complaining in these pages. I am primarily a vocalist, although I also play pennywhistle, bodhran, and bowed psaltery. I'm also de-facto business manager and artistic director, mainly because no one else wants to do it.
Another source of much complaint is my dayjob. I am the admin assistant at a real estate/property management firm on Michigan Avenue. I work for an elderly Greek man who shouts a lot and a manager whose brains have been replaced by an HR manual. I have therefor been discreetly interviewing for "other opportunities" since mid-December.
Most of my local friends are part of Galaxy Rangers,
which was once the science fiction club at NU and now with many years and assorted life changes some have left and we've aquired some new hangers-on. We usually have casual drop-in gaming every Friday night, go in clusters to movies and stuff, and often go to science fiction conventions. The undisputed center and social planner of the group was always Janet, my best friend for more than 20 years. She died of cancer in July, and we're all still trying to find a new balance around the hole she left.
I share my apartment with a lop-eared rabbit named Pepper.
. I adopted her from a shelter a year ago last September - she was found in a park, probably a cute baby easter bunny who was dumped once she stopped being baby-cute. She apparently missed the memo about being a "timid little woodland creature" - she's spunky, sassy, and gets into everything. She loves people, particularly the sloppy kind who drop food on the floor. She once climbed a ladder to get at yummies on a table, and she has defeated three different fasteners I used to block my bedroom/sewing room off with a gate. She is littertrained and aside from the bedroom she has free run of my apartment 24-7 - I've covered the electrical cords and as for anything else - well, I'm the one wit the big brain and opposable thimbs - if I leave it on the floor and she chews it, it's pretty much my fault for leaving it there. I am active in a lot of online bunny communities as well, mostly because so much of the info out there on rabbit care is either outdated or just plain wrong.
Since you can't exactly run out to WalMart to find Elizabethan clothing, I also design and sew my own.
. Most of the stuff is more casual, but that's the prettiest of the current batch. I have a deep interest in historical clothing, and keep up with current research. Some of the people on my F-list are also costumers, researchers, or both.
I'm a voracious reader - mostly Fantasy and SF but a fair amount of Non-Fiction as well. I'm a nut for social history - I don't want to know who won what battle, I want to know what they had for breakfast! most of my expertise is in Tudor and Elizabethan England, but there are other subjects I've researched in detail just because - geisha/geiko, historical homes, victorian crime, the history of prostitution, the Mallory-Irvine expedition to Everest, and I was into pirates before pirates were cool.
As I've mentioned, 'Monster Week on the 4:30 Movie" was a formative part of my childhood. It started with "The Deadly Mantis" at age 6, and I still have a fairly decent shelf of daikaiju tapes and dvds. A side-interest of that is US B-movies of the 50s and 60s. I programmed the 24-hr B-fest for 3 years in college and own copies of both 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' AND 'Night Of The Lepus'.
I have one brother in California - he works in aquisitions for Intel and his wife is expecting their first child next month. My mother lives in Florida near her brother, her best friend from grade school, and her "um...friend". ( he's in his 70's, so "boyfriend" isn't the right word....). My parents divorced about 20 years ago and neither my brother nor I are in touch with my Dad. Frankly, while I love my family, there is enough geographical and emotional distance that my friends are really my family.
My LJ is set to "adult concepts" because I'm an adult, and sometimes I talk about adult stuff and I don't want to worry about some self-appointed LJ police getting their panties in a know because I said "fuck".
I'm 41, single, short and loud.
I'm usually some variety of redhead, depending on what brand is on sale this week. I think my hair was originally brown, but since I've not seen it since high school I'm not entirely sure. I am originally from northern NJ but came to college in the Chicago area (Northwestern - theatre) and just never left. Now I live in a 1BR on the north side of Chicago, and the primary decor in my living room is framed One-Sheets (Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Godzilla 85 and soon Cloverfield), reproduction ukiyo-e prints, and books.I've been working at Renaissance Faires since age 14 - booths, street theatre, swordwork, storytelling, and now music. I was with Minstrosity for 9 seasons and 3 CDs, and am now 1/3 of Merry Measure.
We are preparing for our 2nd touring season and working on our 1st CD - a source of much complaining in these pages. I am primarily a vocalist, although I also play pennywhistle, bodhran, and bowed psaltery. I'm also de-facto business manager and artistic director, mainly because no one else wants to do it.Another source of much complaint is my dayjob. I am the admin assistant at a real estate/property management firm on Michigan Avenue. I work for an elderly Greek man who shouts a lot and a manager whose brains have been replaced by an HR manual. I have therefor been discreetly interviewing for "other opportunities" since mid-December.
Most of my local friends are part of Galaxy Rangers,
which was once the science fiction club at NU and now with many years and assorted life changes some have left and we've aquired some new hangers-on. We usually have casual drop-in gaming every Friday night, go in clusters to movies and stuff, and often go to science fiction conventions. The undisputed center and social planner of the group was always Janet, my best friend for more than 20 years. She died of cancer in July, and we're all still trying to find a new balance around the hole she left.I share my apartment with a lop-eared rabbit named Pepper.
. I adopted her from a shelter a year ago last September - she was found in a park, probably a cute baby easter bunny who was dumped once she stopped being baby-cute. She apparently missed the memo about being a "timid little woodland creature" - she's spunky, sassy, and gets into everything. She loves people, particularly the sloppy kind who drop food on the floor. She once climbed a ladder to get at yummies on a table, and she has defeated three different fasteners I used to block my bedroom/sewing room off with a gate. She is littertrained and aside from the bedroom she has free run of my apartment 24-7 - I've covered the electrical cords and as for anything else - well, I'm the one wit the big brain and opposable thimbs - if I leave it on the floor and she chews it, it's pretty much my fault for leaving it there. I am active in a lot of online bunny communities as well, mostly because so much of the info out there on rabbit care is either outdated or just plain wrong. Since you can't exactly run out to WalMart to find Elizabethan clothing, I also design and sew my own.
. Most of the stuff is more casual, but that's the prettiest of the current batch. I have a deep interest in historical clothing, and keep up with current research. Some of the people on my F-list are also costumers, researchers, or both.I'm a voracious reader - mostly Fantasy and SF but a fair amount of Non-Fiction as well. I'm a nut for social history - I don't want to know who won what battle, I want to know what they had for breakfast! most of my expertise is in Tudor and Elizabethan England, but there are other subjects I've researched in detail just because - geisha/geiko, historical homes, victorian crime, the history of prostitution, the Mallory-Irvine expedition to Everest, and I was into pirates before pirates were cool.
As I've mentioned, 'Monster Week on the 4:30 Movie" was a formative part of my childhood. It started with "The Deadly Mantis" at age 6, and I still have a fairly decent shelf of daikaiju tapes and dvds. A side-interest of that is US B-movies of the 50s and 60s. I programmed the 24-hr B-fest for 3 years in college and own copies of both 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' AND 'Night Of The Lepus'.
I have one brother in California - he works in aquisitions for Intel and his wife is expecting their first child next month. My mother lives in Florida near her brother, her best friend from grade school, and her "um...friend". ( he's in his 70's, so "boyfriend" isn't the right word....). My parents divorced about 20 years ago and neither my brother nor I are in touch with my Dad. Frankly, while I love my family, there is enough geographical and emotional distance that my friends are really my family.
My LJ is set to "adult concepts" because I'm an adult, and sometimes I talk about adult stuff and I don't want to worry about some self-appointed LJ police getting their panties in a know because I said "fuck".
