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I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois.



At the age of eighteen, directly after graduating high school, I ran off to Ireland where I stayed for six years (minus the two I spent in England). While overseas I also traveled to France, Switzerland, Scotland, and Wales. When I returned to the U.S. I ended up in a small Virginia town by the name of Berryville, where I volunteered at the library and the local archives and worked as the activity director at the town's assisted living facility. Everyone in Berryville knew my name, and for a recluse this was often jarring. More than once I crossed the street or sneaked out the back door of a shop in order to avoid socializing.

While in Ireland I worked as a collections assistant at the Natural History Museum in Dublin. I was responsible for cataloging the museum's massive collection of dead birds. All day long I sat in a large room filled with Victorian furniture and musty specimens, my desk peppered with seagull wings, cassowary bones, and mutant chicken skulls. It was the strangest job I have ever had.

Right now I am studying Psychology and working as an applied behavior therapist for two teenagers with autism. My family history undoubtedly had something to do with the decision to follow this path: autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and adhd are some of the diagnoses floating around in our gene pool. My own diagnoses are obsessive-compulsive disorder and tourette's. When we all get together it's a carnival of crazy!

I live with my beloved cat. We host regular public tea parties and sporadic private pillow fights. Both of these activities keep us sane for different reasons. We also collaborate on the following projects:

Machinebook: an internet "zine" that we distribute via floppy disk, with extras not found on the website.

BETRAYED! Zine: a traditional cut-paste-and-copy zine. You can find us at Baltimore's DIY Fest on May 9th, 2009. :)

If you feel like we would get along swimmingly, please add me. Despite my reclusive personality I love getting to know people, and many of today's closest friends were yesterday's internet acquaintances.