From: "Heather" To: Subject: who am I... Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:56:10 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Following the stated instructions, I felt it would be best if I sent this out ASAP. A little about me... My name is Heather, but I used to go by Lacrima when I first joined the list, something like 6 years ago. Since then, I have seen the list through just about everything that has happened since its inception. I have been in this fair den of iniquity that I call my home for almost 10 years. I moved here from the state of mind, Oregon, to go to NYU. Being 18 and living in the Village was a bit of a culture shock: unlike home where I stuck out like a sore thumb, here, I was almost, GASP!, normal! I did the clubbing thing, the school thing, the travel thing. And then I graduated and went to grad school. Admittedly, I haven't finished my Master's degree (blast that thesis), but I learned a lot a lot about American material culture and can talk circles around just about everyone on 19th century American furniture and other cultural detritus. During this time I also began an internship at the Met working in the Costume Institute Library. After that, I ended up working for Art Index (you can find it in just about any reference library) for a few years. Boring as all hell, but it was rather fun to be able to read magazines for a living. Recently I changed jobs and now work for Corbis. Heh, Alexia, you may work in advertising, but I am now officially a Microsoft employee. And if having Bill Gates in one's work address book isn't evil, then I don't know what is! My interests are varied. I admit that I am really not a part of the 'goth' scene any more, but this is a loaded statement since the scene has fractured and splinterred like so many lovely shards of glass from a broken pane. I used to go to clubs all the time (in my youth, the Building, Limelight, the old Batcave, the Bank, etc.; more recently Click&Drag was my second home) but now find that a nice evening out to dinner and perhaps a bar with friends is a lot more satisfying. Then again, I do need to get all tarted up on occassion and a club is the place to do it. As for music, I listen to just about anything (Bauhaus to Patsy Cline) and have come to appreciate the newish electronic music that has hit the airwaves of late. Literature, hmmm. I read too much and too often. I cannot even name all of my fave authors, but Milan Kundera and Agatha Christie are way up there. My favorite flick is Betty Blue, a rather dark French movie with a killer sound track. In my spare time, I do lots of crafty things. Ask anyone who knows me and you will either see their eyes roll due to my dragging projects around or glisten excitedly from having projects turn into gifts. I used to post a lot, but these days I don't have much time to respond due to work and whatnot. I am usually around, and at the picnics later this summer if you see a tall chick in a big black hat with some sort of strange knitting project, come over and introduce yourself. I promise I won't bite. : ) hb