swankivy
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Mmm . . . peanut buttery!
Female
31 years old
Tampa, Florida
United States
Last Login: 11/23/2009
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swankivy's Interests
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| General | Writing, drawing, art, music, Paganism, Web page writing, fairies, environmentalism, singing, karaoke, reading, fantasy, science fiction, baking, playing pranks, DDR, tennis, stargazing, naming trends, musicals, anime, witchcraft, art, dreams, editing, fairy tales. | | Music | My favorite music is Ween, TMBG, Suzanne Vega, For Squirrels, Tori Amos, Ookla the Mok, Moxy Früvous, Björk, Kate Bush, Poe, Belly, Frente!, The Breeders, Blind Melon, Edie Brickell, 4 Non Blondes, The Cranberries, Dar Williams, Ani DiFranco, Indigo Girls, Tracy Chapman, Madonna, Alanis Morissette, Sinéad O'Connor, Sarah McLachlan, Cyndi Lauper, Phil Collins, R.E.M., MC Chris, George Clinton, Simon and Garfunkel, Queen, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Mediæval Bæbes, David Lanz & Paul Speer, Adiemus, Benjamin Britten, Fauré, Beethoven, Bach, Debussy, Mozart, John Rutter, Blümchen, t.A.T.u., The Residents, KLF, Negativland, Enigma, Jan Hammer, Era, Max Raabe, Tenacious D, Arrogant Worms, Weird Al, Bloodhound Gang, Dr. Demento, Stephen Lynch, Adam Sandler, Wesley Willis, Philip Riley & Jayne Elleson, Annwn, Seven 13, Gypsy, Gwydion Pendderwen, Moving Breath, Avalon Rising, Michelle Mays, Dreamtrybe, Kenny Klein, Kathy Mar, and . . . musicals like Man of La Mancha, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables, Rent, Chess, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Shop, Chicago, Rocky Horror, Phantom, Into the Woods, Wicked, and Avenue Q. | | Movies | 12 Monkeys, Adaptation, Anastasia, Arise!, Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, Benny & Joon, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (though I didn't like the first one, there was just something about this one), The Brave Little Toaster (haha, you say? It's great!), The Breakfast Club, Chicago, Clerks, A Clockwork Orange, Contact, The Dark Crystal, Dead Poets Society, Dogma, Dragon Half, Drop Dead Fred, Dune, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Finding Nemo, Flight of the Navigator, The Forbidden Zone, The God Who Wasn't There, The Goonies, The Green Mile, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Harriet the Spy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit (the animated movie), Holes, Hook, Jeffrey, Kung Pow, Labyrinth, The Last Unicorn, A League of Their Own, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Lord of the Rings, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Matilda, Monsters, Inc., Monty Python's Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge, The Neverending Story, Newsies, Phenomenon, The Point, Rainman, Robin Hood (the cartoon), Rocky Horror Picture Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Shawshank Redemption, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Stranger Than Fiction, Swing Kids, Tank Girl, Team America, Tenchi Forever, The Tune, UHF, Unbreakable, Zoolander. | | Television | Monty Python's Flying Circus, Red Dwarf, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Da Ali G Show, Father Ted, Animaniacs, Ren & Stimpy, Spaceghost Coast to Coast, Invader Zim, The Tick, The Simpsons, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Home Movies, The Powerpuff Girls, Earthworm Jim, Samurai Jack, and lots of anime. | | Books | My favorite books are by Douglas Adams, Richard Adams, K.A. Applegate, Francesca Lia Block, Vanna Bonta, Ann Brashares, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Octavia E. Butler, Stephen Chbosky, Eoin Colfer, Scott Cunningham, Roald Dahl, Richard Dawkins, Diane Duane, Lois Duncan, Katherine Dunn, Garth Ennis, Jeffrey Eugenides, Mark Frauenfelder/Carla Sinclair/Gareth Branwyn, Usamaru Furuya, Neil Gaiman, Arthur Golden, Steven Gould, Shannon Hale, Alex Haley, Sam Harris, Pete Hautman, Stephen Hawking, Robert Heinlein, Joseph Heller, Carl Hiaasen, Eva Ibbotson, Riichiro Inagaki/Yusuke Murata, Ken Kesey, Daniel Keyes, Sue Monk Kidd, Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, John Knowles, Nancy Kress, Wally Lamb, Gail Carson Levine, David Levithan, Gregory Maguire, Yann Martel, George R.R. Martin, Edain McCoy, Eloise McGraw, Keith Miller, Christopher Moore, Jaclyn Moriarty, John Novak, Chuck Palahniuk, Julie Anne Peters, Rodman Philbrick, Dav Pilkey, Daniel Pinkwater, Philip Pullman, Daniel Quinn, Wilson Rawls, Louise Rennison, Mike Resnick, Spider Robinson, Linda Rosenkrantz/Pamela Satran, J.K. Rowling, Louis Sachar, J.D. Salinger, R.A. Salvatore, Eric Schlosser, William Shakespeare, Shel Silverstein, Dan Simmons, William Sleator, Lemony Snicket, Jerry Spinelli, Ivan Stang, Tom Stoppard, Patricia Telesco, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lynne Truss, Jhonen Vasquez, Joan D. Vinge, Rebecca Wells, Edith Wharton, Elie Wiesel, G. Clifton Wisler, Timothy Zahn, and Paul Zindel. |
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swankivy's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Tampa, Florida | | Body type: | 4' 11" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Other | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Love kids, but not for me | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Freelance editing, secretarial, and writing | | Income: | Less than $30,000 |
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swankivy's Schools
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University Of Florida
Gainesville,Florida
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Elementary Education
Minor: Psychology
Clubs: University Choir
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1996 to 2000 |
Chamberlain Senior High School
Tampa,Florida
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Interact, Save What's Left, Science Academic Society, Chorus
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1994 to 1996 |
Riverview High School
Sarasota,Florida
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Clubs: Chorus
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1993 to 1994 |
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swankivy's Companies
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Books-A-Million
Gainesville, FL US
Kids' Department Head
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July 2000 - June 2006
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DKS Associates
Tampa, FL US
Administrative Assistant
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July 2006 - present
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About me:
Me am swankivy. Among other things, I am a writer, a daughter, a sister, an editor, a webmistress, an artist, a singer, and a kickass administrative assistant. I will kick your ass in a game of ping-pong.
I like corn.
I'm a graduate of a four-year college. Degree is elementary education. Not too happy about it as I never wanted to be a teacher. Too selfish. Teaching requires that you become your job. Writing is the only job I want as part of my identity.
I am a writer, not just a person who writes. There is a difference. A big one.
To get to know me better, try experiencing my creative efforts:
You can find out more about me at my Web site (http://swankivy.com ), on Everything2.com (see swankivy), on 43 Things, on DeviantART (see swankivy), on Amazon.com, and on Yahoo!
I enjoy the following hobbies:
- Writing annoyingly long character-oriented fantasy novels.
- Using my soprano voice to its fullest.
- Playing ridiculous pranks.
- Working on my personal Web page, which is threatening at this moment to take over the Internet.
- Reading books that don't insult my intelligence.
- Doodling in the margins, occasionally fairly well.
- Beating other people at their own games.
I am talented in the following:
- Imitating the voices of several cartoon characters.
- Identifying grammatical errors, typos, and things in language that are just WRONG.
- Playing musical instruments; I play eight instruments with varying degrees of incompetence.
- Memorizing useless things and finding odd times to recite them.
- Surprising people with my unbalancing honesty.
- Typing. Approximately 100 wpm.
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