From: Nuitfaerie@aol.com
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:56:17 EDT
Subject: intro intro intro. (three is a magical number)
To: NYCgoth-L@necronomi.com




here we go...
i'm megan, distinguished from every other skinny-redhead-in-a-corset by my 
height (5'10") and waist-length hair. also, of course, by my incredible wit 
and my ability to fall down the stairs at downtime, drunk or sober.

as july meanders toward august, i'm nearing the two-year mark of living in 
new york, though much of that time was spent living in westchester, which is 
really a universe unto itself. "westchester?" you say, "like where the 
clintons bought an overpriced barn?". why yes! actually, i'm in the midst of 
getting a liberal arts degree with a concentration in medieval studies at 
sarah lawrence college. what i'm going to do with -that- is anyone's guess. 
currently, i work for an internet start-up in manhattan, primarily doing web 
design. i also do a lot of web stuff for the college, including the design 
and maintenance of a literary journal called "campbell corner" after joseph 
campbell. my loves, however, (see, even my hobbies are polyamorous!) are 
writing (mainly poetry) and theatre (acting and costume design), especially 
shakespeare and recent absurdist plays. i've studied modern, tap, jazz, 
swing, and irish dance in the last 5 years of my life. ballet for 10 years. i 
feel as though i lived the first 18 years of my life like i was going to die 
at 21, and now that i'm older and wiser at all of 20, i'm being forced to 
calm down and narrow everything down. i just don't know what to choose. 

i'm an aries (gemini moon, pisces ascendant, willow tree in celtic 
astrology), and though i used to think i was a water sign, now i know i'm an 
aries. i'm also classified as an infp according to the keirsey personality 
types, which makes me a "healer". i think the two combine to create amazing 
delusions of grandeur... or maybe just a very caring, yet still self-involved 
individual. ::grin::

i've been online since 1992 (yay for unix and lynx!). my first social 
interactions were on a mud called "realmsmud", hosted at dorsai.org... which 
soon became a full-blown obsession. later, that time-leech was replaced by my 
webpage (now located at www.dainty.net and languishing a bit beyond the 
opening pages).

when it comes to music, art, and literature, i find myself drawn to things 
which show some kind of honest passion, and the theme of memory. i love 
jeanette winterson because her novels encompass both of those. i'm horrible 
at picking favorites because i always want to pick 12. musically, i play the 
harp and listen to a huge variety of musicians. recently, i've been listening 
to a lot of synthpop and industrial (ebm? i'm bad with these distinctions) at 
work (apoptygma berzerk, vnv nation, beborn beton, covenant) and 
medieval/renaissance music at home (anuna, medieval baebes, dcd, various 
chamber groups and consorts). i love the cure, depeche mode, and the smiths 
(and have since the 80s). i also adore ani difranco, bjork, delerium, velvet 
underground, patti smith, beth orton, the indigo girls, sleater-kinney, the 
need, kathleen hanna in her various musical guises, and other things which 
are classified as punk, rockabilly, swing, and "world music".  for big scene 
cross-over points, i'm an official groupie for a local swing/rockabilly band 
called the camaros. my official title is "dangergirl". i love the fla cover 
of 'justify my love'. it's absolutely delicious.

about 4 months ago i read a book called "the reflection of light in water", 
which is a memoir by samuel delany (the sci-fi author). i think everyone 
should read it, especially anyone who lives in new york, but anyone in 
general, because it's an extremely lucid meditation on the nature of time, 
memory, emotion, and lust. if you ever want to get into an exciting 
pseudo-intellectual conversation with me, bring up quantum physics and/or 
religion. you'll never be able to shut me up. hmm, sort of like now. 

"some days the line i walk turns out to be straight, other days the line 
tends to deviate."

yes yes yes.

-megan

strawberrylust
www.dainty.net