Sorry I'm late to the mixer

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

  . . . but I brought cookies!  *sheepishly proffers brownies with 
pecans and dried cherries to all and sundry*

At 7:30 PM +0000 9/15/03, Cindy C. wrote:
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>Name:

Jennifer Carolyn Boggess Ramon

>Also known as:

Jen, Boggles (old play on my maiden name I got stuck with in eighth grade)

>Age/Sex:

29, female

>Birthplace/Livingplace and feelings about same:

Birthplace: Urbana IL, a place I inhabited only because my parents 
had the ill grace to be getting their doctorates at at the time

Hometown: Columbus, MS, where both my parents grew up and still 
reside; a small, claustrophobic town of 20,000 with the two redeeming 
characteristics of being in the middle of a fairly intact mixed pine 
and hickory forest and having fairly clean air.

Livingplace: Houston, TX, which is in the middle of a swamp and has 
very dirty air.  It also has way too many people.  Unfortunately, I 
am sufficiently freakish that I have to have over 2 million people to 
choose from to get a decent cluster of friends.  (And then half of 
them move to California.  *sigh*)

>Family Life:

Parents still living, one retired.  Three siblings, one brother three 
years my junior and a brother and a sister ten and eleven years 
younger.  Parents and both younger sibs sill live in Hometown, above; 
middle brother lives in Indiana.

Married, one spouse (male).  Polyamorous, with one secondary partner 
who does not share our living quarters and probably won't ever.  No 
kids yet, and probably never will have them, due to medical problems 
on both my part and the spouse's.

>Personality:

INXX on the Meyers-Briggs.  Introverted, very serious, with a very 
dry sense of humor.  Warm-hearted with a rather cold prickly outer 
shell.

>Words friends have used to describe you:

Intelligent, creative, imaginative, loyal, trustworthy, bitchy, 
picky, perfectionistic, shy

>Words you have used to describe you:

Um, I don't very often, but I agree with most of my friends.  I don't 
really think of myself as shy so much as introverted, but the 
distinction is perhaps minimal.

>Things you do when not staring at the computer:

Cook, read, crochet, knit, read tarot, watch shojo anime, play RPGs 
(both tabletop and LARP), follow local bands/musicians

>Comfort foods:

Chicken and broccoli with lemon-garlic sauce, butterscotch blondies, 
anything greasy that has beans and sausage but no shrimp in it

>Education/Work:

High school diploma from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and 
Science; bachelor of arts in English from Rice University (if Rice 
did minors I'd have a minor in math and a minor in linguistics); 
teacher's certification from the University of Houston, where I am 
slowly putting together an M.Ed. in gifted education.

I teach AP Statistics and Precalculus to high school kids.

>Language skills:

I can mostly read Spanish, and can read Latin and Ancient Greek with 
the help of a dictionary.  I can't speak or understand any spoken 
languages other than English, unfortunately.

I know a little bit of ASL, but not enough to carry on a conversation.

>Technical know-how:

I am conversant in geekspeak, but I'm just an average luser as far as 
doing much with the tech myself.

That's assuming you meant computers.  I can use a spinning wheel and 
a hand loom reasonably well . . .

>Favourite HP book:

_Prisoner of Azkaban_, with _Goblet of Fire_ a close second.

>Favourite HP character(s):

Hermione, McGonnagall, Neville, Snape

>Favourite HP line

"Just because you've got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't 
mean we all have . . ."

>Watching/Avoiding the HP movies?:

Watched them, although I found the second somewhat disappointing.

>Into HP fanfiction?

I've read some, haven't written any, and don't consider myself 
seriously into it.

>Books you'd recommend to just about anyone:

Fiction:  Pratchett and Gaiman's _Good Omens_, Madeline l'Engle's 
Murray-O'Keefe books, most everything by Ursula LeGuin, Steven 
Brust's Taltos series, and the Cuck Godot series by Phil Foglio.

Non-Fiction: _Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman_ and _What Do You 
Care What Other People Think_ by Richard Feynman, pretty much 
anything by Oliver Sacks

>Favorite TV shows:

Um, I don't watch TV.  The last series I watched with any regularity 
was Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

>Favorite Movies:

The extended version of _Fellowship of the Ring_, _Pleasantville_, 
_But I'm a Cheerleader_, _October Sky_

>Favorite Musical Artists:

I have too many I enjoy to pick a favorite.  Leaving out the local 
ones that no one else would recognize, I listen to a lot of Enya, 
Peter Gabriel, XTC, Marshall Crenshaw, They Might Be Giants, Voice of 
the Beehive, and Weird Al.

>One thing about your life you'd change if you could (sorry, but you
>may not say "lose weight"):

I would have completely rewritten the script for my freshman year in 
college.  My sophomore year was terrible and it directly due to my 
having made a long series of really bad choices that first year.

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

My friends.  I don't make friends easily, and I treasure the ones I can keep.

>Philosophy for an easy life:

Oh, goodness, I wouldn't know.  Why would one want an easy life?  I 
certainly don't.

>How you found HPfGU:

I think I was nosing around on YahooGroups for HP-related stuff and 
stumbled across the group.

>Active at other HP sites:

Not often.  I have occasionally posted on FictionAlley in the past.

>Your most rock solid Book 6 or Book 7 prediction:

Someone other than Hermione will finally read _Hogwarts, A History_ 
and discover something fantastically useful.

>ADD A QUESTION OF YOUR OWN AND ANSWER IT:

Q: What's your favorite holiday?

A: Mabon/Harvestide.  It finally starts to cool down, there's cooking 
involved, what's not to enjoy?

-- 

  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles(at)earthlink.net
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the 
act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. "
	- Gauss, in a Letter to Bolyai, 1808.