So I figured I should give you a quick rundown on who you're dealing with :)
Female, 40(!) and in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (for my new UK friends, I'm about an hour's drive northeast of Washington DC). I'm a klutz who keeps breaking bones and tearing ligaments, and presently I'm finishing up therapy for a shoulder injury. I'm an administrative assistant for a very laid-back debt collection law firm (we wear shorts, bring our dogs and get paid very little), and I live with my mother, who needs someone looking after her as she has Alzheimer's and is steadily declining. Her older brother had a serious stroke in March and will never leave the nursing home, so this isn't helping her state of mind. I also have two cute, awesome nephews who I don't get to see much unless their father wants free babysitting. Our other residents are my mother's dog, Roxie, a beagle mix and my mutt, CJ, who both the love of my life and on occasion the bane of my existence. They're both lovely dogs, but they hate each other's guts. So half my home time is devoted to keeping the dogs away from each other. Spiffy. Roxie on the left, CJ on the right.
I am, at least nominally, an artist/crafter and make some extra money from it, but between stress, the economy and a very arthritic drawing hand, I've done very little art in the past year. I have a web site with most of my art on it, but the web host changed their interface last year and I absolutely cannot figure it out, hence it hasn't been updated in over a year. I love dogs, the Baltimore Ravens, good television and playing board games. I worship the ground Joss Whedon walks on and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are the alltime best films on this Earth, but after that there's no knowing where my taste might run. My musical tastes are all over the board, I can't stand gangsta rap or really over-commericalized gunk but I'll at least try just about anything else. If the radio is on, it's on local public station WTMD, whose tastes largely match mine. Unless I'm listening to NPR, whose politics largely match mine. I gladly voted for Obama and I'd do it again, though I'd prefer him left of centrist pragmatism instead of right of it.
That should cover the important stuff. Proceed at your own risk :)
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My preferred radio station, WTMD (streaming at http://www.wtmd.org) is pledge-driving. That part isn’t pleasant. The good part is that to promote it, they’re asking listeners to create 3 song ‘mixtapes’ and they’re playing the ones they like. I tossed one in yesterday – ‘Songs I Heard for the First Time on Homicide’. Apparently, the announcers fought over who got to play it! The morning guy won, but I didn’t get the e-mail about it playing until after the fact. Still managed to hear the back half of my mixtape by accident. It was:
Barenaked Ladies, ‘What A Good Boy’
Morphine, ‘Buena’
The Iguanas, ‘Boom Boom Boom’
They announced my name and my Homicide-love on the air. So an excellent musical morning commute for me.