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burning like matchsticks in the face of the darkness
when faced with my demons I clothe them and feed them
Created on 2002-04-01 17:23:50 (#513957), last updated 2009-12-23
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Basic Info| Name: | Elizabeth Scripturient (the delinquent, ecumenical |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1983-07-09 |
| Location: | Medford, Massachusetts, United States |
| Website: | Me and the Text |
Contact:
hermionesviolin@livejournal.com BioIf I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
-1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (NIV)
Gather the people, break bread, and tell stories.
-on Christianity (source unknown to me)
Test everything. Hold on to the good.
-1 Thessalonians 5:21 (NIV)
I'm a twentysomething queer vegetarian Protestant female (libertarian?) currently living in
I'm not sure What I Want To Do With My Life TM but am currently fairly happy at my job and spend most of the rest of my time in fandom* and church (assorted Protestant spaces). I'm also developing an interest in economics/negotiation/etc. (though I'm totally not cut out for business school).
*The open canon series I followed during the 2007-2008 season were (in alphabetical order): Astonishing X-Men, Buffy: Season 8 comic, CSI (original - Las Vegas), Heroes, How I Met Your Mother. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Without a Trace
Fandom and church stuff is mostly unlocked, but work stuff (and yeah, a lot of what I post is just mundane anecdotes) is mostly locked (including retroactively) as of April 16, 2008.
Anyone is welcome to friend me and/or comment on any entry. I make no promises about friending you back (I often fall behind in reading my current flist, even filtered to people only) but I am likely to respond to your comment. I welcome disagreement so long as it's not positioned as an attack.
[image stolen from Boston Pride 2007]
frequently referenced stuff:
"Why you should fall to your knees and worship a librarian"
"The Mixed-Race Queer Girl Manifesto" by Lauren Martin
my essays:
* "Does the Bible Condemn Homosexuality?" (1999?)
* "The Case for Same-Sex Marriage" (2001)
Why is the possibility of "passing" so insistently viewed as a great privilege ... and not understood as a terrible degradation and denial?
-Evelyn Torton Beck, Nice Jewish Girls
i've not learned
the acceptable way of saying
you fascinate me
i've not even learned
how to say i like you
without frightening people
away
sometimes i see things
that aren't really there
like warmth and kindness
when people are mean
but sometimes i see things
like fear and want to soothe it
or fatigue and want to share it
or love and want to receive it
-from "Poem (for EMA)" by Nikki Giovanni
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accurate spelling, ani difranco, apples to apples, artists despite their politics, auditing classes, being a pretentious brat, boston, carousels, chocolate, christianity, comfortable physical affection, communicating, consistency, correcting people, creating value, cuddling, dewey decimal classification, editing, educating, fairy tales, fanfic, frida kahlo, giving casual massages, giving gifts of love, greek mythology, having a plan, hugs, interests.too.complex.to.fit.here, interlibrary loan, interrelating, learning, libraries, linking, maximizing positive utility, meaning what i say, mix tapes/cds, negotiation genius, not elsewhere classified, obsessively citing, pet research projects, pooh bear, potato products, problematizing everything, public transportation, queynte, quoting, rain, rainbows, reading, referencing, research, researching, saying what i mean, seasons, sexing up/queering everything, simple food, snow, the blue faience hippopotamus, the term "queer", themed music mixes, thinking, thunderstorms, truth, umass oxford summer seminar, unique livejournal interests, unusual cultural references, vampire mythos, veg(etari)anism, walking, winter, witnessing with my life, working in a library, writing, zines, zining
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Schools:
Frederick A. Cleveland Elementary School - Norwood, MA (1988 - 1994)Norwood High School - Norwood, MA (1997 - 2001)
Smith College - Northampton, MA (2001 - 2005)
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