My friend/co-worker Pat says that as long as inanimate objects don't talk back when we curse at/talk to them, we're not crazy. And that's a good thing because where we work (Subway) is the place of employment of twenty-seven people who go around muttering curses and other such things to everything from the oven to the mixing bowls to the cloth that just fell on the floor.

We call it talking to ourselves. Maybe we are crazy and we just don't know it...

Maybe there should be a self-help group for people like us. Or maybe just people like me. Because while I don't think I'm crazy, per se I do believe I'm a little touched in the head sometimes.

I have an overactive imagination. I always have. I don't have the slightest clue where I got it, but I don't think it's ever going to go away. I will never out-grow it. I figured that one out when a then nineteen-year-old friend of mine told me he'd out-grown the RPG games we used to do and yet I hadn't. I was twenty-five at the time. I used to think there was a problem with that...but there isn't. There is nothing out of the ordinary about my maturity level or the fact that I can still "play pretend" as I used to call it with remarkable ease.

I am an adult, yes. I have a job, a car and eventually will have a house, a husband and hopefully two kids. I also still have that over-active imagination.

Now while I can't just go around spending hours upon hours "playing pretend" with my imaginary friends like I did when I wasn't a mature adult, I do still do it from time to time. I try to do it for at least an hour everyday, but it's different now. Before it was just fun and games. Now my "playing pretend" is more of a "staff meeting" with my muses.

You see, I am a writer. And my muses, the very same people all the stories in this archive are about, no longer live on the pages of Marvel comics. Rather, they have taken up residence in my head. They live inside my mind and they talk to me on an almost constant basis. They are always giving me ideas and the "staff meetings" I have with them are one method of hashing out those ideas with them. By acting them out and trying to figure out the best way to play a particular scene in a story, I ultimately make writing it easier.

Am I crazy? I don't think I am. I'm someone who has figured out the best way to put her imagination to good use. So what if I never really grow up? So what if I talk to myself (or rather my muses) aloud sometimes (and yes they do talk back but only in my head) and mutter curses at inanimate objects at work? As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing wrong with any of it.

I am what's normal for me.

How's that for a biographical introduction?

Okay, so if you've read the list of things on the sidebar, you know quite a bit about me already. This is good. It means I don't have to go into all that basic crap again.

Basic crap is boring when it has to be repeated a dozen times, and who wants to be bored? Not me.

I have a family. Of course. Most people do. Some don't, I know. Hell, even my muses...the only family they have is each other. Literally. But yeah. I have parents (Mom and Dad), who are really the absolute greatest parents ever. I couldn't have picked out betters ones. I also have an older half-sister, a bro-in-law, a niece and two step-nieces, all of whom I love like mad.

I am a junk food addict. Yes, seriously. I am addicted to chocolate, Starburst fruit chews, Skittles, Campino candy, gummi bears, Baked Lays potato chips, Mug rootbeer and Brisk lemonade. Only reason my teeth haven't fallen out yet is the fact that I brush at least twice a day and also drink a lot of milk and water.

I'm a huge fan of Steven Seagal. I think if I were to tell you my favorite actor of all time...it would be him. I think he's just completely awesome. If there was ever a movie made about the New Orleans Guilds, he would be the perfect person to play former Thieves Guild Patriarch (and adoptive father of Gambit), Jean-Luc LeBeau. I am not kidding. I'm also a big fan of Mel Gibson, Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, and Tommy Lee Jones, but my admiration of them pales in comparison to my admiration of Steven Seagal. He's just...he just kicks ass. Both literally and figuratively.

I am a Subway sandwich artist. I've worked at my town's local Subway for four years now, and I still enjoy it. I get around 40 hours a week and I am the official trainer for the store, which means any new employees that come are trained entirely by me.

Just goes to prove you don't need to go to school to become a sandwich artist. You'd be surprised how many customers ask us that.

I've been a geek for a long time now. LOL. I think it probably started when I was a young child watching the A-Team, MacGyver, the Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider.

I wanted to be able to build cool things in virtually no time like Hannibal, BA, Face and Murdock. I wanted to be able to escape out of any situation with nothing more than a rubber band and a paperclip like MacGyver. I just wanted to *be* Daisy Duke (what girl didn't?). I wanted to own a car like KITT. And the General Lee. And the A-Team's van. Hey I'm just as likely to drool over a nice car (especially a classic muscle car) as I am over a hot guy. That's just the kind of girl I am.

My geek status was even further cemented by the advent into my life of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I loved that show. Still do. I became a Trekkie and in some senses, I still am one. LOL. I also enjoyed Star Trek: Voyager. The other series' didn't do much for me though, even the more recent Enterprise. Give me STNG and Voyager any day and I'm good. Especially if you team it up with reruns of the A-Team or the Dukes of Hazzard. Now if they'd only bring back MacGyver and Knight Rider on a channel that I get, and I'd be happy as a pig in shit.

For the short time it was on, I was also a fan of seaQuest DSV. Of course in my part of the world, it was only one for two seasons, and I never did see even one episode of seaQuest 2032, but I've heard I didn't miss much, LOL. I loved the idea of talking dolphins and huge supersubs. And hey, I admit it, Jonathan Brandis was a perk to the show too. I was a teenager, gimme a break here!

I now enjoy watching shows like Andromeda and Stargate SG-1. I read fantasy novels and interview the authors for Geek World. I still jump up and down excitedly when an author agrees to do the interview. I read comic books (the ones I own anyway...I haven't bought one in over a year). I make a point of going to see (and/or buying) movies based on comic books. I'm a fan of Shrek, The Emperor's New Groove and The Road to El Dorado. I write fanfiction, as seen by this website.

My favorite and closest muse is a red-haired computer hacker thief named Emil Lapin. I might not know as much about computers as he does, but he's still my alter ego. Maybe it'll rub off eventually. I kind of hope it does.

I am a geek. And I am damned proud of it.