So Who the Heck Am I, Anyway?

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In addition to poetry and literature, I’m wild about all sorts of music. Just don’t make me listen to Michael Bolton, Mariah Carey, or the Spice Girls! To paraphrase Weird Al Yankovich, I’d rather clean every toilet in Grand Central Station with my tongue. Other main interests in my life are hiking, jogging, and weight lifting. Although I’m not terribly gifted at sports, I live a very athletic life and absolutely love physical activity; I was a swimmer in high school. I especially love the outdoors, which is why I love travel, whether it is by foot, bike, or motor vehicle... any chance to experience the wonders of nature! Of course, I’m also a people person, and love to explore new cultures. You can see pictures of my trips to France and Greece here. I’ve been learning to cook a little bit of Greek food since returning, and I also cook a pretty wicked stir-fry (yes, list cooking as a hobby, but don’t think I’m going to be somebody’s househusband... I don’t cook every day). And speaking of Greece, while in Greece I made extra money on the side by putting another of my hobbies to professional use; I performed massage on the other American students and our faculty supervisor ($15 for half an hour, $25 for a full hour), who were all sore from all of the walking we did in that city, up and down steep hills; I’m pretty darned good at it if I don’t say so. I’d consider doing that now, but the only paying offers I’ve received were from people who want more than their money’s worth.


I originally signed up on 09/08/97 12:01:26. For a while, I was working on an extremely primitive laptop with a black and white screen. Every time I wrote something even remotely relevant, my modem disconnected and everything would be lost. So fun. Then I got a UMax C500 SuperMac clone and started to learn about Photoshop, Quark and HTML. Then I moved to Philly and quit everything for two years. Now I'm back online again. At the moment I'm working from the UMax, recharged with an additional 64 Megs of RAM (and I've finally rid myself of that awful RAM doubler that slowed my machine down to a snail's pace!)and hope to get another 64 before the end of the year so that this can last me another year before I have to upgrade to something truly fabulous. I also have a Compaq Presario, but at the moment the modem is not working, and I don't have any good software for design on there. Yes, I do want to eventually change the style of this page, but first I'm just interested in getting it up and running again (and up-to-date) and incorporating all of the items from my Penn State website before they realize I haven't been employed there for two years and shut the thing down. As I relearn Photoshop and Quark and teach myself Illustrator and get some web extensions for Quark, I hope to improve the aesthetic of this site. So check back periodically.

To quickly update you on my life, I'm now living in South Philadelphia and working as office manager for Warkulwiz Design Associates at 2218 Race Street. We have clients all over the (New York, California, Connecticut, Boston), although most of our clients are local. I actually love working there. I'm an office manager, which means I'm doing the books, answering the phones and keeping track of projects. In addition to that, I have recently been given the repsonsibility of seeking out and bringing in new clients, so I am looking forward to that new facet to my job. If you're looking for great design, talk to them (no, they didn't design this website... they'd probably laught at how terribly this is thrown together). I'm also still writing a little bit on the side, although not in the creative sense for the most part. I'll try to get some more writing samples posted on this site soon as well as links to articles I have posted elsewhere.

I live in a cute, albeit Antedeluvian, neighborhood in South Philadelphia. It's safe and comfortable, although not terribly exciting. Saint Monica's church & school are right across the street from the house where I live, so in the morning the air rings with school children's voices as well as the voices of their hysterical mothers. However, the neighborhood is, on the whole, somewhat elderly as the younger generations of Italian Americans flee to the suburbs, leaving in their wakes septuagenarian gossips sitting on the stoops of their little brick rowhouses. I'd love to see the neighborhood repopulated with younger, educated people with an interest in more than who's wearing what or who has forgotten to put blinds in their windows (please!). I don't care if the new people are gay or straight so long as they are interesting and open-minded. Following is a list of houses and contact numbers, the first four of which are on my street (in fact, all within five doors of my house on either side of the street!), in my neighborhood which have recently gone on market. The four on my street are all older people who died, so the relatives will most likely be selling low. As I've said, it's a safe neighborhood, fairly friendly, and a great starter home for someone in their twenties or early thirties!

These are just numbers I jotted while walking home from the subway which, incidentally, is a short, safe six blocks away (we're three blocks from Broad Street, and once on Broad it's three blocks to either Snyder or Oregon, either of which has a Broad Street subway station that takes you directly into town). I will try to collect more other evenings. Come on, young people! There must be hundreds of you biding time in sleepy little towns like my own, or dull suburban numbness, dying to live in the city! (The neighborhood, incidentally, is 17th & Ritner vicinity, which is roughly two miles from Center City, but, as I've already said, is immediately accessible by subway.)







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