Name:
Elvie
E-mail:
true_elven@lycos.com
Location: Indiana
Birthday: 9 September, 1979
Bio: As of August 2007 I officially joined the ranks of the adult world - I finally finished school and took a "real" job! I have a PhD in English and I'm a university professor. I teach writing and rhetoric at a small state university in the Midwest.
I've been married, as of this month, for just over one year. My husband and I met in graduate school when he still thought he wanted to be an English professor, too. Now, he is a lawyer - bit of a career change but it worked out well for us in the end! We don't have any children or pets, so we're basically devoted to one another. (Feel free to gag from the ickiness of how sentimental and romantic we are. We're ridiculously happy together.)
Other than that, I guess I can say about myself that I'm a small-town Midwestern farm kid at heart, that I'm very close to my family (especially my parents), and that I'm a long-time practitioner of Wicca, a beautiful nature religion which, for you skeptics out there, has very little to do with spell-casting and absolutely nothing to do with the devil. I consider my life beautiful and blessed, and I'm looking forward to exploring a lot about it on here!
Interests: My main interest is writing: teaching it, doing it, researching it. I also love a good horror movie - and by "good" I mean one with an actual plot and characterization, not just buckets of blood and hours of torture. My all-time favorite actress is Audrey Hepburn and I am a devotee of the character actor Aaron Stanford, probably best known as Pyro from X-Men, the best comic in the world. I'm addicted to crime shows on TV like CSI:Miami (a friend is just getting me into these, and I'm about to start catching up on CSI:NY), Cold Case, Without a Trace, etc. I also like spy shows. I was a huge Alias fan (before it went all wonky in its fourth season, that is) and I really wanted the short-lived ABC show Traveler to fill my spy void, but alas, the studio gods have no taste.
I am very interested in online writing communities like bloggers, fanfiction authors, wikis, and so on. I think the digital age has ushered in new ways of thinking about authorship and readership, new ways of understanding how texts "mean" and who - writer or reader - determines what that meaning is. This is my first-ever blog, but I have written a lot of fanfiction, which I take pretty seriously because even though the characters were created by someone else, I feel like fanfiction is a truly original and creative endeavor when done with time and care.
I also really enjoy working out. I try to walk and ride my stationary bike everyday, and I do a little bit of weight-lifting, yoga and body-sculpting when I can. I struggle with body image issues; I've been very thin and am putting on weight to help myself be healthier, and it's difficult to let myself do so without feeling fat, so working out helps me feel strong and athletic instead of, well, chubby. But I'm interested, since this is the "interests" section, in not worrying about fat or thin and just being happy with myself and with being healthy.
Blog Created: Saturday, 10 November 2007
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