Hello!

[Judy]

I'm very pleased to be invited here!  I see many familiar faces -- or 
at least familiar names -- of people who used to hang out at HPfGU, 
but don't any more.  I'm sometimes not very good about sending emails 
(I can actually be rather shy about it), so a nice cozy list like 
this is just the thing for keeping in contact!  And, I'm looking 
forward to meeting new folks here, too.


OK, here's my biographical material:

***Name/IDs:
Judy, Judy Serenity; Yahoo ID is JudyS32


***Age:
41


***Family:
Married fto an extremely nice guy named Tom.  No kids 
(unfortunately.) I have four fluffy feline furballs.  I have several 
nieces and nephews (mostly from Tom's side of the family), but the 
only ones I see much of are my sister's two boys.  


***Home
I live in the college town of Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Tom and I have a 
big, rambling old house that we are slowly fixing up. From time to 
time, you may hear me vent about how unpleasant it is to, say, 
have raccoons falling through the rotting ceiling over the parlor. 


***Education/Job/Role in Life etc:
Went to University of Pennsylvania 1980-1984, then on to the 
University of Michigan, which is how I ended up in Ann Arbor. In 
1991, I got my PhD in Social Psychology, which is more like Sociology 
than Psychology.  Stuck in the "academic ghetto" of adjunct teaching, 
currently at a small Catholic college named Madonna University.  
Luckily, Tom is employed at the moment and doesn't seem to mind 
supporting me.  I'm also currently writing a book about a highly 
controversial person. 


***First contact with Harry Potter:
The first two books were included free with some toys that I ordered 
for my nephews.  My nephews already had the books, so I kept them. 
When the first movie came out, I thought, "Gee, I alread have the 
first book; I should read it before the movie spoils it for me." Next 
thing you know, I had to have *all* the books.  

At the time I finished the books (OoTP wasn't out yet), Tom was 
overseas for work, I was home alone on my birthday, the semester was 
over, and I was very bored.  So, I surfed the web looking for Harry 
Potter discussions. The next day, I sent Tom an email that said, "I 
found a great timewaster!  A Harry Potter discussion site with 
30,000+ posts on it!"  Well, that was an understatement -- I've 
probably spent thousands on hours on HPfGU since then. 



***Favourite Potter things (books, characters, ships, fics, objets
d'Art, general enthusing):
Love PoA.  Big SnapeFan.  Lupin is also great.  Really not into most 
shipping.


***Extent of Potter obsession:
My Potter obsession has dwindled, sadly.  I still volunteer at HPfGU, 
but it's mostly because I'm afraid that if I quit, I'll lose contact 
with all the great fans I've met.


***Other interests/activities:
I love to travel. I'm hoping sometime to do a major trip where I 
visit lots of people I know from HP fandom! 

Big time Disney World Fan.  About two months ago, Tom bought me a 
great 10th anniversary gift -- membership in the Disney Vacation 
Club, which is Disney's version of a timeshare.  So, now we own 
something like .0004% of Disney's Boardwalk Hotel. (Well, until 2042, 
when it reverts back to Disney.) 

At various times in the past, I have done a lot of vegetable 
gardening. I volunteer to answer questions at the local Garden 
Hotline, but haven't actually gotten around to putting in much of a 
garden at my house. The fact that the previous owners paved almost 
the entire property doesn't help. 


***Current/recent reading:
Hardly ever read fiction -- I get too involved!
 

***Current/recent listening:
Disney showtunes.


***Current/recent viewing:
If I'm looking at a CRT, it's probably a computer screen, not a TV. 


-- Judy