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[tiggersong]

***Name:
Song, or Tiggersong

***Nicknames/IDs:
Tiggersong, SongBird, The Knitting Guru, Mommy, Stasia
Tiggersong on YM

***Age:
34

***Family:
I have an 11 year old daughter, about to enter 6th grade.  My 
husband and I are amazed that she's gotten so old so quickly.  The 
food bills are killing us!  We have two cats (Butterbeer is the 
tradtional tortoiseshell, and Sugarquill is the muted 
tortoiseshell... fans?  Nah!) and a Guinea Pig named Cappucino.  
My uncle lives in Manhattan, and that's nicely far enough away, 
thank you.  My mother in law lives just across the Bay, but she 
doesn't drive, for which we thank every god ever created.  (She 
*can* phone, though.  Hmph.)

***Home
A small apartment in Oakland, California.  Just across the Bay from 
San Francisco.  Land of Fruits, Nuts and Flakes.

***Birthday, Place of Birth:
June 17, in Doctor's Hospital in New York.  

***Education/Job/Role in Life etc:
Um.  No college - I tried 3 times and never finished.  I've been an 
auto-didact since I discovered that books *taught* me things.  I'm a 
professional knitwear designer, knitting pattern designer and 
knitting teacher.  My role in life?  Uhhhhm...?  To foment goof-ball-
ness?

***Other things we might want to know about you:
I'm obsessive about fiber.  I love to knit, and spin and crochet 
and ... bead and work in polymer clay and cook and ... I'm arts and 
crafts oriented.

I'm very short.  I'm 4 feet 9 inches (in cms thats ... 142.5cm)  and 
have mainly tall friends.  Don't know why.  Opposites attract?

***First contact with Harry Potter:
My daughter's school librarian kept telling me there was this great 
series I should read and that my daughter would love.  Being the 
stick-in-the-mud I am, I figured that something "everyone" loved 
would be trash.  My husband got bored in the bookstore while our 
daughter read (and read and read and read), and idly picked up the 
hardback of CoS.  He read the first chapter and told me that we were 
getting the series as soon as they came out in paperback.  Oddly 
enough, now I'm HP obsessed and he's only interested.

***Favourite Potter things (books, characters, ships, fics, objets
d'Art, general enthusing):
My favorite book is PoA, but that might be because I find the adults 
much more interesting.  My favorite fics are The Lodger by Mad 
Martha and Icarus' Beg Me For It saga.

***Extent of Potter obsession:
Um.  Medium?  I'm a new elf over at Harry Potter for Grown Ups, and 
working hard at being good.  I can have an intelligent conversation 
about non-HP stuff, but find that there's a constant running 
monologue in my head about HP stuff in the middle of every 
conversation.  (Like: "You know, that reminds me of this fic I just 
read...")

***Other interests/activities:
*heh* Knitting.  Yarn, kids, comics, my husband, kitties, drawing, 
sunny days in the park...

***Current/recent reading:
I'm re-reading my Connie Willis books (they're all wonderful, by the 
way), and working on a book about the Civil War.

***Current/recent listening:
Gretchen Wilson, BareNakedLadies, Broadway soundtracks (Wicked was, 
forgive me, wicked).

***Current/recent viewing:
The Olympics (but they're over), Rescue Me, Queer Eye, Iron Chef....

Tiggersong