Not quite what you would call refined. Not quite what you would call unrefined.

Oh, fuck it. I'll write a real bio. Damn procrastination's siren call. I'm a Bryn Mawr alum, class of '03 (raise the green lantern high!) bachelor's in Linguistics, since I like being able to justify the grammar of my sentences that would be considered incorrect if analyzed prescriptively instead of descriptively. If you call me on my grammar, be prepared to face my linguistic wrath if you're being anally prescriptive about it (I moonlight as The Mysterious Masked Linguist). I write something like I talk here; formal writing is for papers, not for gossiping with friends. I prefer to be mostly on target with my spelling, but some words give me issues, especially words where the root ends in 'e' and then suffixes are added. Somehow, despite 16+ years of education, I still screw up when I'm supposed to drop the damned 'e'. But, the first person subject pronoun should always be capitalized and the word is spelled 'cool' not (shudders) "kewl". That kind of crap just rubs me the wrong way. That being said, my senior thesis was on l33t.

I also seem to have a short attention span as I can and often do change subjects in a blink of an eye, and both follow AND participate in disjointed conversations (topic A to topic B to topic C and then back to topic A with no segue). Thankfully, most of my friends are the same way. Particularly

danceswithbeans, although, since we've known each other since Kindergarten, this may be a shared developmental trait.

I am a fandom junkie. My most active fandoms are currently most anime, Stargate SG1 and West Wing, but I also have deep fondness for Trek, anything by Whedon, and Harry Potter.
I'm slash friendly. I occasionally write fic (check my memories for fanfic I've posted on LJ), and I love making icons.

I waste a LOT of time on City of Heroes/City of Villains. And I'm an altoholic so you can find me on ~~Virtue, Champion, Triumph, and Infinity~~ a variety of servers. Full documentation of my altitis is here on The CoX Alt Spreadsheet of Doom.
Global Chat @Winged Murasaki

- providing I remembered to sign into Glycerin.

Origins of my username are here, BTW. And for those of you who don't want to look at that, I give a quick summary: It's not from Lloth, it's not from various legends of spiderwomen, it's not from comics, it's not from video games. It's because I think spiders are cool. And I'm not much of a Goth either. I have nothing against them, I have many friends who are, I just don't like that when people see the color scheme of my journal they think "Ooo, Goth." WRONG.

When I redid this, I was going to take the quote out, but I don't want to. I like it too much.
"Pancakes is the better part of valor"
"That's not right. It's discretion. Discretion is the better part of valor"
"Which do you like better? Discretion or Pancakes?"
"Ooh. Pancakes. I like pancakes."
"Well, there you go."
(from Goats)

And my default spyder icon is MINE. I made it (the design and everything), and so help me Vantara if I catch someone else using it.

All other icons are free to take. Almost all of my icons are made by me, I've got this policy about mostly using the ones I make just because I make so many. My Icons are all found at my personal link. If you want to use on, just leave me a message and tell me which you're taking and credit me in the keywords. Some are off limits (for example, the spyder icon). The offlimits ones are clarified in the keywords.

I am owned by a 12 yr old Mitred Conure named Woody and a 6 yr old African Grey named Gabbie.

- Cherry-Head, Sun, Golden, Green-Cheek, Blue-Crowned, Dusky -
Conures Are Squeaky, Screechy Love

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