Hummingwolf at Home

After a careful look at the bios on assorted websites created to assist you in putting a child up for adoption, in finding someone to date online, or in identifying a convicted felon, I have assembled a list of the factoids people most want to know about each other. For all the folks who have ever complained that I'm too mysterious, here are my answers to the great timeless questions.


Citizenship: American (native-born).

Ethnicity: Caucasian (non-Hispanic). Known ancestors a mix of Western European nationalities. Occupations of known ancestors include inventors, scientists, journalists, essayists, schoolteachers, school founders, artists, and the usual assortment of farmers, peasants, obscure kings, and pagan gods.

Age: Rapidly approaching 35 years.

Sign: Sun sign Libra, Moon sign Leo, Leo ascendant. Moon conjunct ascendant, with the luminary just baaarely in the first house. Sun sextile both moon and ascendant. Sextiles and conjunction all within one degree of exactness. Yes, I do know too much about astrology for someone who doesn't believe in it.

Sex: Female.

Sexual orientation: Heterosexual with a decided weakness for geeks.

Political orientation: Registered independent. Somewhere in the middle of the U.S. left-right spectrum with mild libertarian leanings. Have voted for Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians. Have been known to cheer when president-elect and congressional majority are of opposing parties, my theory being that a government divided is less damaging to the rest of us.

And now for something I really shouldn't have to say to intelligent people. For the sake of argument, let's say you're in agreement with the political party currently in power. A law is passed, or an old law is interpreted by the courts in a new way which gives the government sweeping powers to go after the Bad Guys. Members of the other major political party complain that the law can now be used against previously legal activities which they happen to be all in favor of protecting. Frankly, you see this as a bonus. You love the law, jumping with glee when it's used against genuine Bad Guys and other undesirables. But if the law is written in such a way that these sweeping new powers could conceivably be used against you, if the thought of the opposing party coming into power and being able to use the law to their advantage gives you the heebie-jeebies, then it doesn't matter how much good your guys can do now--it's still a bad law. As long as the US retains some kind of democracy, the wheel will turn one day. What your side does unto others will be done unto you.

In the news: A group monitors churches to ensure that tax guidelines restricting nonprofit groups' political activity are not violated. Some church officials complain that this smacks of Big Brother-ism. They feel that the coalition and others like it are using scare tactics, that the monitoring is a nasty form of intimidation. The article ends with the quote, "Who deputized this group and its members to be thought police in Kansas - or elsewhere?" That complaint about thought police comes from Jay Sekulow, ardent supporter of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Whether the previous two paragraphs are related to each other in any way is for the reader to decide.
( More Trivia! (But not Moore trivia. Ick.) )

Honey, I'm home.

1. When I was little and first learned the scientific term for humanity, I bounced around the house chanting, "I'm a homo sapiens! I'm a homo sapiens!"

My father, deeply offended, said, "No child of mine will ever be a homo sapiens." No, he was not mistaking it for another term. He simply did not want to be associated with the human species in any way and insisted that the only way I could be human was if I were someone else's child.

2. Feeling a need for old familiar things, I'm getting in touch with my inner child (of the '80s) listening to some of Launchcast's preprogrammed stations with 1980s themes. Am being reminded why I'm not normally nostalgic for that decade's music. The Psychedelic Furs' "Love My Way"? Ach, there's a reason why Richard Butler was referred to as "a very poor man's David Bowie."

3. Someone just gave me a space heater for my room! This is especially welcome as we're surely due to run out of heating oil soon.

4. Thanks to the work of dedicated researchers, my ancestry has been traced back to the Celtic mother-goddess Don and her consort Beli Mawr (for whom Beltane was named). No, I am not making this up.

5. While I'm highly skeptical of astrology, the fact that my natal chart has the moon conjunct the ascendant and the sun in the third house makes perfect sense.

6. I know way too much about astrology for someone who doesn't believe in it.

7. Every time I've taken a mini-version of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (whether using a book or a test online), my results have been either INTP, INFP, or a tie between the two. Except for one online quiz which told me I was an ESFJ. That quiz was probably coded by someone on very interesting drugs.

8. The books which I reread the most as a young child: Lewis Carroll's Alice books, L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, collections of the Grimms' fairy tales and Andersen's tales, Edith Hamilton's Mythology, and a collection of stories & poems by Edgar Allan Poe.

9. The two authors I've read the most as an adult: C.J. Cherryh and C.S. Lewis. If I ever write anything that gets published, I'll have to use my initials too.

10. I own a single niobium earcuff I bought years ago from these people at a Renaissance festival. If I were a rich woman, I would own more. So what if I never wear the one I have? If I were a rich woman, I'd go places where I wouldn't feel ridiculous wearing niobium jewelry.