Intro

[constancevigilance]

Hello from Quirrell Corner!

I'm not clever enough for a snappy intro, but we Hopeless Cases do 
what we can.

I was surprised when I got the invite owl. But I'm glad to see some 
old faces here. I'm working my way through the whole list from the 
beginning. But I'm sort of obessessive that way. See below.

***Name:
Susan

***Nicknames/IDs:
Constance Vigilance. This name is not so clever as people think. I 
have never read the books, but only listen to the tapes during long 
California commutes. This is what I actually thought Jim Dale said. 
So I'm named after a mistake. There you go.

***Age:
49. Yup. But my profile on Match.com says 42. Don't tell on me.

***Family:
Single, but owned by one beautiful Maine Coon cat named Harvey. I 
rescued him from the animal shelter and was very surprised when I 
learned he was a purebred. He's not sure that my breeding is up to 
snuff.

***Home
San Bernardino California. Nothing to brag about there, other than 
low home prices. If homes are priced by location, location, location, 
then you know something else about my town. Since I moved here 20 
years ago, the city has burned down twice - the latest was last 
October. It's an hour drive to anywhere, including any job that I 
might have. I entertain myself with my books on tape and my cellphone.


***Birthday, Place of Birth:
Oct 14, Shelbyville, Ill. Moved here as a child with my parents and 
pretty much spent all my days in beautiful San Bernardino.  

***Education/Job/Role in Life etc:
I build web sites. I have zero talent in the art department, but if 
you create the pretty pictures and fonts, I can make it work. 
Unfortunately, so can any of thousands in China, Russia or India. My 
last job was outsourced to India and it seems the current one may go 
that way, too. Anyone need a web programmer who speaks English as a 
first language?

***First contact with Harry Potter
Long commutes are good for something! Got the tapes on rental, never 
looked back. Still haven't actually READ any of the books, though. 
But I do own a set which I use for reference.

***Favourite Potter things (books, characters, ships, fics, objets 
d'Art, general enthusing):
I am the founder and currently sole member of the Quirrell fan club. 
I have a beautiful theory about where my beloved Q-man is right now. 
Book canon never says he died. But JKR website (if we accept it as 
canon) has been shooting holes in my beautiful theory. However, no 
amount of evidence to the contrary will ever sway the totally devoted 
theorist, so I'm sticking by my story. Besides - in JKR's world, not 
even death takes a character out of play. So, where is Quirrell now? 
It's obvious! He's in Norway, recruiting trolls and Durmstrang 
students for an eleventh-hour save-everybody Cavalry rescue by means 
of the Hogwarts lake. I don't have many converts to my theory, but I 
can take pride in at least being the first to notice that the Q-man 
is related to Scandinavia, which has become a sort of a given in the 
fandom.

***Extent of Potter obsession:
Dunno if it's really an obsession, but Potter stuff does take a large 
part of my time. I went to Nimbus 2003, Convention Alley, am already 
registered for Witching Hour and Accio, and am part of the planning 
team for Lumos 2006. I also pride myself on having read, or at least 
scanned, nearly every post on the HP4GU list. I don't do fanfic or 
RPG, but I do like to write filks which is where anyone might have 
heard of me. When I post lately, it has been on the Hogs_Head Yahoo 
group.

***Other interests/activities:
Very concerned about politics (liberal Democrat), which is probably 
why I bury myself in Potter - to get away from being constantly 
depressed about the state of things today. Otherwise, I quilt for 
charity - I've given away nearly 100 quilts to homeless and 
disadvantaged.

***Current/recent reading:
I tend to read political books these days. Recent books include Dude, 
Where's my Country (Michael Moore), Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell 
Them (Franken), Pigs at the Trough (Huffington), The Best Democracy 
Money Can Buy (?), Bush at War, anything by Molly Ivers, you get the 
idea.

***Current/recent listening:
Here we go again. I stream Air America Radio all day long. 
www.airamericaradio.com. Some others on this list claim to have 
recently read The Lovely Bones. I read that and hated every word. 
Depressed me for a week. I guess each to his own, eh?

***Current/recent viewing:
I never miss The Daily Show. I'm a Star Trek fan since the original 
series, and seem to be about the only one who never misses an episode 
of Enterprise. I loathe reality shows, so my televiewing is 
mercifully growing shorter as the schedule fills with such drek. I do 
love opera and live theater and go as often as I can. Luckily, the LA 
Music Center has public rush tickets (last minute) for $12, so I do 
get to go to nearly everything here in town. I especially love 
musicals as I get filking ideas there.


Constance Vigilance, who sure sounds like a dweeb from this intro.