Laurie

Who I'd like to meet:

Living: Bill (Smog) Callahan, Lou Barlow, John Darnielle, Diamanda Galas, April March

Dead: Ted Hughes, Garth Williams, Edgar Allan Poe. Some great poets of the Romantic era.

Take a chance on me: Potential employers. Mentors in the fields of web design/development, new media, marketing, communications, journalism, publishing, editing, or law. As much as I love my career in library work, I would enjoy making a career change and working in these other areas, but have no professional experience in them. I could benefit from the opportunity to observe and ask questions. I learn fast, and could be a useful volunteer.

Also: designers, writers, musicians, illustrators, artists, educators, librarians, book collectors, bohemians, kindly hipsters, academics with levitas, old school punks and goths, unpretentious thinkers, music lovers. Ecumenically minded and theologically curious Lutherans, Anglicans/Episcopalians, Catholics, Orthodox Christians. Moderates/centrists or left-of-center lobbyists, activists, lawyers, advocates etc who are concerned with the environment, health, families, children, the elderly---basically in public interest issues. Vassar people from old friends to new acquaintances. Couples who live nearby who might have sympatico with my gentleman friend and me, and want to hang out or share a dinner occasionally.

Celebrity-wise: I have a list of want-to-meets with pictures at msggoat.43People.com.

Miss Manners wrote that "the roof constitutes an introduction." In the case of a school or work in common, I use that dictum as an entree to becoming acquainted. Liberally applied, one might consider this MySpace place our roof. A request to list each other as contacts is my "Hello, I think you're interesting and we have something in common," and this profile is my introduction.