There've already been a few posts about this. It's interesting. There were already two about RinkChat, under different names. One was ended by a post with a link to the first. I just read Hesse's _Siddhartha_-- time is a circle. Wierd.

Well, here's my info:

Current surprise: Mom walking in as I write this with about a foot less hair.

Obsessions: Ireland, going to Ireland, Irish music, touring Ireland [definitely south, waiting to see about the north] listening to Irish music, playing Irish music, learning Irish music, learning Irish music technique, jamming with two of my friends when we're supposed to be practicing [even though they know about a total of two songs], learning Irish songs by ear, music in general, finding out is if really is Kissykittykellykielbasakewpiekewlkerriepook.

gender: female

[Real] Nickname: Chris

Real name: Elyse [NOT Elsie, I am not a cow-- uh-LEESE]

Middle name: Christine

hair: blond

eyes: green

complexion: pale

weight: average

reisdence for now: 'bout an hour's drive south of Anchorage, Alaska. [Nobody but Raven would recognize the name]

residence at birth: see above

birthplace: nearest hospital [Anchorage]

likes: my home town, everything listed in 'obsessions,' music, fiddling, playing the violin, writing music, writing, music, RinkWorks, writing intentionally bad stuff, animals, saying aminals to people it annoys, music, staplers, getting stuff done before it's due, babysitting, laughing, music, saying 'shtuff,' art [visual, as in paintings and such, excluding sculpture], learning, school [yeah, yeah], music, science, Honors teachers, being obsessive, music, repeating stuff in lists, music, Gaelic, and a whole lot of stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Pets: b/w cat, three yo named Bagheera [Baggy for short], 21 yo [?] tortoishell cat named Serena, 8 yo [7?] husky/black lab/german shepard dog named Dena'ina [a native group, for those of you who didn't know] and a brother.

Ethnic background: 3/4 German, 1/4 most everything else

Cool stuff I'm doing: fiddle, play violin [classical], play Irish music, learning German [the Gaelic's been put on hold] use brackets rather than parenthesis, a project for Hon. US Hist. on Colonial American art, listening to music [as in, this moment], being *me*

Fav. movie: Saving Ned Divine :-)

Other stuff: writing more than people care about