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I've been known by a fair truckload of names throughout my time on the net, not to mention just the past year (funnily enough, this declaration works for just about any year since 1995...). There is no single general-purpose name I am using right now. Among otherkind types I am also known as Eshari, which has stuck pretty fast by virtue of so many people knowing me as that, even if I am not sure it is a "right" name for me anymore.

I graduated from California State University, Sacramento, in 2000. I majored in Art Studio, not because I was particularly interested, but because there was nothing else there I wanted to study (life tip: don't go to a college you have no particular reason to go to just because your boyfriend refuses to go to southern California with you to attend the college you actually want to attend). Producing art on demand for hours and hours a day five days a week is a lot more tiring than you'd think, even if it isn't academically difficult (though try upper division art history!). For the last semester or two, it mainly meant having to produce photographs on demand for hours and hours a day five days a week, and that's actually worse because of all the out-of-class time one spends shooting pictures in the first place! *pant, pant* Do not take three photography classes at the same time. Just another little tip from me to you. However, it sure does help build up a body of work...(photography: it does a body of work good?)

This isn't a personal ad, but I figured I might put in some of that personal-ad-like stuff, just so that you can know what I'm all about.

• Sex, build, coloration: If you want to know, try some pictures of me.
• Age: 29. No, really. Just turned it yesterday (as of this writing).
• Astrology: It's simplest to say Virgo, Aquarius rising, but I'm cusped (with Leo) on the sun, and the whole thing is just one big starry mess. (Kinda reminds me of me.) In Chinese astrology I am a Horse of the element Earth.
• Religion: Pagan witch, basically, trying to synthesize my own "tradition" of my various faery and witchy and pagan inclinations. Being faery certainly colours my spiritual notions, but that's not religion. Sympathetic to Discordianism, but I don't call myself one anymore. Lately I work mainly with the Faery and Underworld material RJ Stewart writes, although this is "spiritual path and set of techniques" and not religion per se (people of many varying religions work with it).
• Occupation: Back in the old Open Media Lab job I used to have (argh!). It kinda sucks, although there's something to be said for $26.41 an hour (when you count my swing shift differential) and jumping back in at 10 hours of vacation per month, 100% dental coverage, etc. things that go along with keeping my seniority.
• Music that tickles my fancy: The Cure, Weird Al Yankovic, Peter Murphy (that's two different links there), R.E.M., They Might Be Giants, most anything you'd stick on a Dr. Demento CD, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, VNV Nation, Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues, and Genesis, for starters. It would be pointless (as well as annoying) to try to list all the kinds of music I like well enough to bother listening to, so I won't. But what hasn't already been represented includes Celtic, musical theatre, deep house, funk, disco, surf, swing, big band, some folk, some punk, and some ska. I also need to randomly plug Elvendrums, a band of real elves who are real cool. You may also wish to see the list of CDs I own.
• Movies that I dig: like the above, to list them all would be annoying if not impossible. So the rundown is Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Matrix (just the first one... egh), Monty Python flicks, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, the Evil Dead series, The Neverending Story, Harold and Maude, The Last Unicorn, The Addams Family, The Court Jester, the Star Wars saga, and the Lord of the Rings.

• TV: I watch almost no new TV these days. I don't remember the last time I watched Adult Swim, even. I dig MST3K (duh!), Red Dwarf (duh!), and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Malkavian: no, of course not. Third base!