- I can type
- I have been reading since roughly the age of 6
- I play online games
- I have a boyfriend
- I moved to a new city
In all seriousness, though, here's a bit about me:
Reading & Books
- I am an avid reader and have spent my career surrounding myself with books. I worked for Barnes & Noble for six years and for the last three I have been working for public libraries. My degree is in English Education and I'm working on my Master's in Library and Information Science with a certification to be a School Library Media Specialist (what many of you know of as a School Librarian).
- Currently I am working part-time for a public library in the St. Louis area and as a library aide for a school district.
- I serve as a Reader Selector for the Missouri Gateway Award. The Gateway is an award given to an American author of a teen novel (grades 9-12) annually by the Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL). The Reader Selectors are a variation of readers from all over the state. Mostly they are teachers and school librarians, but there are readers from the public libraries and also students are welcome to read. The committee publishes a list of 25 books every August (any day now!) and the Reader Selectors have from that date (any day now!) to December 1 to read all 25 books and rate them. Last year was the first year I read all 25, but I didn't even do that (technically). I read so much teen lit that when the list comes out I already have a chunk read.
Gaming
- I play Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games. What is that? I don't have time to explain, go here and read about it. Basically, if you are familiar with World of Warcraft or have some sort of vague concept for what it is, you're kinda with me. I started playing in 2008 when my then boyfriend wanted me to game with him. He had played an MMO before that had essentially been discontinued and was looking for something new. I was given the choice of several games and, being a reader, chose Lord of the Rings Online.
- I have two characters (also know as "toons") at level cap in LOTRO. They are Sylvarian (a Rune-keeper) and Lazarian (a Lore-master). Their names are pronounced Sylv-ree-in and Laz-ree-in, but everyone just says them how they are spelled and think that I'm a boy. Oh well. Sylv is a healer/DPSr (Damage Per Second) and Laz is DPS/CC (Crowd Control). They have been with me five years now and I will talk about them as if they are real.
- I also play Star Wars the Old Republic (SWTOR). I started there about two years ago when the game was in beta (when the game isn't really out yet and people are allowed in on invite only so the developers can work out bugs and players can provide feedback--being in beta often gives gamers some unofficial bragging status and all players who are subscribed within a certain amount of time, a month usually, from release are called "founders"). I got my Jedi up to 37 then returned to LOTRO. Now LOTRO is being, well, lame (separate blog post I'm sure) so a few of my friends and I from LOTRO are in SWTOR playing on the Imperial (dark) side. I'm currently leveling a Sith Warrior Maurader named Lazreleth and she's pretty awesome.
- Yes, I have friends in the gaming world. To them, I am known as Laz.
Boyfriend
- This will be less word. I have a boyfriend named Tim. He and I met in Lord of the Rings Online (yup! Nerd love) and have both recently moved in together.
- We had a puppy! Well, we got a puppy together. I have a six year old terrier, Delilah, who was feeling rather lonely after our move to St. Louis and Tim kept trying to wrestle her like she was a boy and she was trying to figure out when he would just figure out that she was to be adored, but not wrestled. Well, we got a boy puppy and named him Samson (yeah, famous couple dogs for the win). He's totally insane and it's been awesome watching him grow. As of this post he is 3 months old.
New City
- When we met, I was living in Kansas City, Missouri and Tim was living in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is from St. Louis originally and so we met up when he was home to visit his family for Christmas last year. Through a series of events he ended up moving to St. Louis soon after that and we commuted back and forth for a few months. In April we got an apartment together but I was working for a school district. I officially moved to St. Louis at the end of May and am adjusting to the various similarities and differences between St. Louis and Kansas City.
Please enjoy reading this blog and if you don't, move on. The opinions here are my own and if you don't like them there are surely blogs that will say what you want to hear.
Peace out.
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