Re: The rest of my profile (Re: The profile of a conlanger)

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Mia Soderquist wrote:

> Well, here the latest version of the Mia bio:
I'll just tack on to this...

> female,
Me too!

> bi,
Me too, but very strongly and happily married - call myself a
practising heterosexual.

> right-handed,
Me too! Started out ambidextrous, but broke my left arm in the summer
before I went to school; still tend to catch things with my left
hand.

> dark haired,
Mousy mid-brown, usually dyed slightly red, always darker than I
think it is.

> married (w/5 kids,
Married with 3 daughters.

> housewife,
Part-time housewife, part-time translator, full-time mother.

> Pagan,
Orthodox Christian, one-seventh of the church choir, maintainer of
parish web page, taking a theology course.

> animal lover (particularly rodents and small
> exotics),
Well, we have cats, or rather cats have us.

> skeptical of the whole auxlang thing (but still
> interested in the languages themselves because they are
> languages),
Slightly so; I think auxlangs are a waste of effort.

> constantly starting new languages but only really
> working very hard on one (ea-luna).
I've only done one other language than Valdyan, I don't want to start
new languages because they'll take up time and energy that I'd rather
use for other things; pity about cool features like ergativity
though, I don't want to put that into Valdyan now it's settled into a
pattern.

> I did a little D&D in high
> school, but haven't done any RPGing since then (except for online
> games like Ultima Online and EverQuest, which don't count in the
> least).
I play a lot of role-playing games, mostly our homebrew system in
Valdyas and Charya but also a "classic" originally Dutch system
called Queeste which has classes and levels and everything; it's fun!

> I do read sci-fi and fantasy, but my reading preferences
> are for non-fiction first and then fantasy, with sci-fi coming in
> after that.
I used to read anything that contained letters, but now I read Diana
Wynne Jones and some other favourites, novels and non-fiction from
the library, and hardly any fantasy and SF any more.

> I am an avid conculture builder. I have several
> cultures going in my mind at any given time.
Valdyas is my only serious conculture, but it's very involved.

> I may turn out to be
> a writer some day when I have more time and can afford to buy
> myself a sense of organization and a few paragraph breaks. :)
I wanted to be a writer once but I can't stand other people telling
me what to write, and anyway I don't write anything except
role-playing adventures these days.

> All that, and INFP too!
ENFP; I can't for the life of me imagine that I'd ever be "I", I'm
too much of a Tigger for that (though having all those kids should
make me a Kanga)

> You can see a picture of me at the first URL in my .sig. I am in
> the first pic with Lilia on my lap. :)
If you want to see my kids at various ages, go to their web page
(accessible from mine) - holiday pictures coming soon.

   Irina

            Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
                     irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself)
       http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/index.html (English)
    http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)