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Created on 2004-12-18 05:55:22 (#5485384), last updated 2009-11-23
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Basic Info| Name: | erica_ac |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1974-07-22 |
| Location: | Pullman, Washington, United States |
| Website: | The Un-Cool Librarian |
BioRecovering medievalist, feminist (not recovering but lifelong, I hope), and librarian. My life is full of books - I spent several years in graduate school soaking up literature and literary theory, then worked for three years at a really good independent bookstore in Chicago, and now I'm an academic librarian who can't stop reading YA lit.
I grew up in a small farming town in Montana, and am lucky in my family, who are kind and funny and loveable, even if they never did give me my pony. I'm not a city girl at heart - too shy and awkward and proud at the wrong moments - but while I don't like crowds, I do like people. Mostly, anyway. Well, sometimes. Two of the main pleasures in my life are snow and stories. I share my life with a philosopher sweetie and two cats, so I never have to look far for the definition of an ancient Greek word, or for in-house entertainment.
In August of 2008 I gave birth to a beautiful little boy who died the next day due to complications from a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. I still don't know quite who I am without him. Perhaps some day I'll be a wiser, more compassionate, and more thoughtful human being, but I'm not counting on it. Right now I am mostly sadder and angrier.
I grew up in a small farming town in Montana, and am lucky in my family, who are kind and funny and loveable, even if they never did give me my pony. I'm not a city girl at heart - too shy and awkward and proud at the wrong moments - but while I don't like crowds, I do like people. Mostly, anyway. Well, sometimes. Two of the main pleasures in my life are snow and stories. I share my life with a philosopher sweetie and two cats, so I never have to look far for the definition of an ancient Greek word, or for in-house entertainment.
In August of 2008 I gave birth to a beautiful little boy who died the next day due to complications from a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. I still don't know quite who I am without him. Perhaps some day I'll be a wiser, more compassionate, and more thoughtful human being, but I'm not counting on it. Right now I am mostly sadder and angrier.
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