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| User: | elthionesse (745103) T. L. Beck
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| Name: | T.L. Beck | |||||
| Location: | Kelso, Washington, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1975-11-24 | |||||
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| Bio: | Some stats about me I had time to fill out one day at work when I had nothing better to do: Name: Terri Sex: Female Age: 30 Marital Status: Married Occupation: High school English teechur Education: Masters (Teaching, Secondary), Bachelors (English, Writing) Hair: Blond Eyes: One green, one blue Pets: Two cats, Spike and Stiletto, one dog, Dargo Living Arrangements: House Kids: None Parents: Divorced Siblings: Sisters, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} h1s_songb1rd and magic_creekHusband: Jonathan, particledreamsOnline real-life friends: true_crime, rtshellyFave flowers: clematis, calla lily, rhododendron Writes: Fantasy, science fiction Books written: The Greatest of Gifts, The Mystic's Dream, and The Snare of the Soul (all part of The Valley of Mystics trilogy Other livejournal blogs: ynirethron and courinLikes: food Political party: Independent, generally moderate In: debt Born: Kodiak, AK Raised: Reardan, WA (outside of Spokane) and Boise, ID Religion: grew up Kingdom-Now Christian, not really anything now Sign: Sagittarius, Capricorn rising Criminal record: One speeding ticket, school zone Drugs: don't do 'em Alcohol: socially Cigarettes: Gross. Medications: Birth control only Health: Good Surgeries: Some plastic surgery, nothing major Weight: could stand to lose a few Personality: INTP or INFP (Myers-Briggs), 9w1 (Enneagram), Choleric-Phlegmatic IQ: 126-158 (never taken an official test) Emotionally: Stable Sex Life: Married, what can I say? It's okay. Anniversary: August 18, 1995 Stalkers: One, committed to mental institution (I'm totally serious); recently I was in the jury pool on a case to commit him AGAIN. Mistaken for a hooker: Off and on Stranger attempting to enter car: Once Attacked: no. Bitch-fights: Outside of growing up with a sister close to my age, twice. One-night stands: no Men I've kissed: Only 7? (hard to remember now) Women I've kissed: none Deceased pets: Gumdrops (cat, died at 10 of diabetes-related illness), Frisky (cat, died at 18, wandered off while ill), Sir George Remington Peavey III (cat, had been a foster pet a couple years ago, died of infection this summer) Other pets: Brandy (cat, foster pet with George, still living) Vehicles I've owned: (least to most recent) 1985 Buick Skylark, 1973 Honda CB750, 1992 Geo Storm, 1990 Lincoln Continental, 1997 Oldsmobile Achieva, 1995 Chevy 1500 4x4 Favorite places to visit: Valdez, AK, NYC, Oregon Coast, Big Hank Campground (ID) Place I've been to a million times and didn't know there was anything interesting there until just recently: Pendleton, OR Credit card debt: None. Mortgage: Absolutely. Student Loans: Endless. Credit Rating: Fabulous. Ever been fired: No. Ever been published: No. Ever been on disciplinary status at a job: Yes. Ever received awards on the job: Yes. Most expensive thing I've ever won: $500 toward airline tickets Cheapest thing I've ever won: coffee mug Ever shoplifted: Only inadvertently. Piercings: Only ears--I'm allergic. Tattoos: none Deliberate scars: one Collects: white teddy bears (I wish people would quit getting them for me), books Largest fish caught: Halibut (80 lbs...father got him on the gaff hook and then accidentally dropped him back in the ocean) Fired a gun: no Fired a bow and arrow: yes Am a good shot: somewhat Vision: rather fuzzy Strangely strong sense: smell (can detect a hotdog at two blocks) Best job ever had: manager at slow storage facility...or the teaching job I have now, which I like. Worst job ever had: telephone bill collector Statistically (based on family background), will die of: heart disease or car accident Statistically, children will suffer from: mental illness Favorite board game: Pictionary Favorite console game: Legacy of Kain: Defiance Favorite bored-at-work game: Free Cell Favorite colors: black, green, blue Favorite shoes: black heeled boots Former handles: The Boot Woman, The Raven Lady, Primordial Dance, SplitSky...there's been more but I forget Favorite decorating colors: sage, cream Exercise programs owned: Veena and Neena's Bellydancing Fitness stuff, Tai-bo, Denise Austin's step fitness, WWF Chyna Workout, a no-name step video Most common physical complaint as result of exercise: shin splints, shoulder tendonitis Food I eat most often: ham and cheese Hot Pockets Beverage I drink most often: Diet Cherry Coke Snack item I snack on most often: Hershey Kisses Healthy habits I have: ... Most acute pain I've been in: nerve pain associated with headgear while having braces in junior high, possible bruised rib/torn rib cartelage after running into something on a 3-wheeler, sprained/possible slight dislocated elbow after falling on it while carrying something large. Ever been in love: just the once Biggest purchase ever made: the house Most money spent in the shortest time without using credit: Spent $18,500-ish in about four months, if you count living expenses during that time Music tastes: metal, rock, celtic new-age, piano, movie themes Celebrity I'd most like to meet: couldn't care less Heroes: ain't got none Role models: My mom. :-) Sense of humor: tends to the ironic Afraid of: moths, gallynippers, getting decapitated or disemboweled Favorite journals: zero_gravity, mrsbrewer, moonpies42Peeves: traffic jams, hypocrisy, muses, people who ask for constructive criticism when they really want a pat on the back Favorite TV show: Stargate SG1 Favorite dessert: Applebee's White Chocolate Blondie Weird food I'm crazy about right now: mushrooms (sauteed or stuffed or cooked on stuff, not raw) Food I will never like: black olives Diet I will never be on: Atkin's Oh: You touch my ta-la-la Oh: My ding-ding-dong Authors I was raised on: Stephen King, Victoria Holt, Anne McCaffery, Mary Stewart, Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Judy Blume, Beverly Clearly, whoever wrote The Girls of Canby Hall and whoever wrote Sweet Valley High, Dr. Seuss Authors I liked a little later on: J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Authors I buy now: C.J. Cherryh, Sean Russell, Jude Fisher, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan Authors I most respect: C.J. Cherryh, Sean Russell, Anne McCaffery Books that made me love to read: Where the Wild Things Are, The Chronicles of Narnia, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, April's Kittens, 10 Apples up on Top, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Books that are "literature" that I think are a complete waste of time: The Red Badge of Courage, Candide, No Exit, Great Expectations, Fahrenheit 451, The Damnation of Theron Ware, Absalom, Absalom! (that one was hideous), Seven Characters in Search of an Author Books that are "literature" that I actually like: Portrait of a Lady, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Crime and Punishment (my favorite), The Death of Ivan Ilych, Metamorphosis, A Separate Peace, Catcher in the Rye, Awakening, To Kill a Mockingbird Short story writer that rocks: Flannery O'Connor | |||||
| Memories:: | 33 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | over 30 public | |||||
| Interests: | 117: alaska, animals, architecture, art, bears, beauty, black, blankies, bodies, c.j. cherryh, cats, celtic music, chocolate, conflict, cooking, dancing, darkness, desire, digital art, drawing, dream interpretation, dreaming, dreams, environmentalism, erotica, exercise, faith, fantasies, fantasy, fate, fear, fire, flying, folklore, food, forests, freedom, friendship, gardening, heaven, hell, hiking, homeownership, intelligence, intrigue, isolation, joy, legends, life, life after death, life's paths, lightning, love, lucid dreaming, lust, mages, magic, men, mountains, movies, music, mythology, myths, nature, new york, night, obsession, oceans, painting, paranormal events, parlor-room politics, passion, photography, physics, plants, pleasure, power, predators, rainforests, reading, religions, rivers, romance, science fiction, sean russell, sensualism, sensuality, sex, sex fantasies, sexuality, softness, space, speculative fiction, spirit, spirituality, stars, stories, subtlety, teaching, the body, the pacific northwest, thinking, thunder, transcendentalism, travel, trees, violence, water, wilderness, wind, wisdom, women, words, worldmaking, worlds, worship, writing | |||||
| Schools: | Reardan Elementary School - Reardan, WA (1981 - 1987) Collister Elementary School - Boise, ID (1987 - 1988) Hillside Junior High School - Boise, ID (1988 - 1991) Capital High School - Boise, ID (1991 - 1994) Boise State University - Boise, ID (1994 - 1998) Whitworth College - Spokane, WA (2003 - 2004) Whitworth School of Education - Spokane, WA (2003 - 2004) | |||||
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| Also Friend of: | 5: celibatesquire, fantasyscribe, lana_mackay, magusknight999, starkravingfag | |||||
| Member of: | 19: _guildwars_, astro_imaging, astronomy, bad_feminists, calvinandhobbes, daily_writer, discuss_writing, fantasywriters, girlgamers, guildwars, literaryagents, marital_arts, micro_fiction, novelwriters, paidmembers, sfandf_writers, the1st100words, worldmaking, write_away | |||||
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