Anyone Up For A Good Old-Fashioned *Mixer?*

[jdr0918]

Well, I wasn't going to get into this as I seem to have made a few 
enemies, but what the hey, you guys deserve a clear target:

Name: Last name is classified, but the "jd" stands for "Jayne 
Delores" (like the villainous Ms Umbridge, Dolores Jane) 

Also known as: Auntie, Sergeant Majorette
 
Age/Sex: 54/female
 
Birthplace/Livingplace and feelings about same: New Yorker by birth 
and by nature. 
 
Family Life: Unregenerate spinster lady, watching (with a sigh of 
relief) as life passes her by.  
 
Personality: schizoid, cranky, unpleasant

Words friends have used to describe you: intelligent, witty, free-
spirited(??), bitchy

Words you have used to describe you: repressed, impatient, socially 
phobic
 
Things you do when not staring at the computer: make my grandniece 
giggle, watch TV
 
Comfort foods: tea
 
Education/Work: 12 years in the US Army as a gas mask lady;
Couple of years as a computer science major, worked as a desktop 
publisher in investment banking until that whole collapsing towers 
thing pulled the rug out from under the industry

Language skills: English, a bit of Spanish, phrasebook level German 
and French, can wordprocess in Portuguese and sing in Bulgarian and 
Croatian. 
 
Technical know-how: I'm the systems person for the old ladies in my 
family. My mother's VCR does *not* flash 12:00 and my three-year old 
grandniece can correctly boot up and shut down the computer I built 
her.

Favourite HP book: Gotta say SS. It sucked me into the world. 

Favourite HP character(s): McGonagall. She's me! Hermione, too: I 
used to be her.

Favourite HP line: "Still in the shower. We think he's trying to 
drown himself."

Watching/Avoiding the HP movies?: Watching... 

Into HP fanfiction?: Oh, yeah! I got into it waiting for OotP. Some 
of it is so good I've decided it's ok if JKR doesn't want to write 
the characters past Hogwarts; some of it is so bad that I've been 
encouraged to write my own on the grounds that it can't be any worse.
 
Books you'd recommend to just about anyone: I was raised to believe 
that everybody should own a Strunk & White stylebook.

Favorite TV shows: Queer Eye, of course; anything on forensic 
science; home makeover shows; practically every cutting-edge comedy 
that was ever cancelled after a season or less; Hey Arnold, Blue's 
Clues (with Steve) and (sigh. oh, ok:) Spongebob Squarepants.
 
Favorite Movies: Windwalker, Tom Jones 

Favorite Musical Artists: Valya Balkanska, Pece Atanasovski, Rolling 
Stones

One thing about your life you'd change if you could (sorry, but you 
may not say "lose weight"): I wouldn't change a thing, but that's 
because it gave me a headache thinking about all the things I 
*should* change.

One thing about your life you wouldn't change even for an advance 
copy of Book 7: my grandniece.

Philosophy for an easy life: philosophy for a what?

How you found HPfGU: the Lexicon

Active at other HP sites: Fictionalley

Your most rock solid Book 6 or Book 7 prediction: Dumbledore dies. 
Out on a limb? Book 6.

Take a moment to wave to members of the fandom you have personally 
met: hi there, none of the above.

ADD A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN AND ANSWER IT: Q: What's wrong with you?
A: Ma, leave me alone or you'll never be able to read your e-mail 
again.