Wow! I've been out of bed entirely too long already and I found myself wandering through this thread like Alice. I am absolutely amazed, not only by the uniqueness of this group, but all of the similiarities.
Apparently, we all love music in one form or another. When I was in Middle School (about 100 years ago) I played clarinet! I'm partially jealous of all of you muscians, because I lost my instrument for a while and somehow my brain forgot how to read music. One day, several years ago, my spouse and I walked past a music store and they had a purple clarinet in the window that I just had to get my hands on. We went in and the guy handed me a new reed. Ah! It was like magick. I think I stood there for ten minutes and when I looked up again, there were more people standing around looking at me that had been there before. I remember blushing like hell and then handing the (very expensive) instrument back to the man.
I've never had the courage to go back in there, so I don't know if they were staring because I totally sucked at or what....probably never know, but it was worth it to know that the music is still in my head. I've always loved a nice blues or jazz riff...and yeah, if you've read any of my fanfic, I think you see where that's going.
I am a middle-aged American mutt whose been married 16 years and my husband and I have a five-year old daughter who knows what empirical evidence means.
That said, I actually have a degree in Criminal Justice that I want to use...to be a writer. I wish I had the patience to be a criminologist, but there is absolutely no call for that type of thing here.
Many people say that they feel like they live at work, well, I really do.
I also am a horse person and gave up two five years ago just after my daughter was born. I've ridden everything from ponies to Belgian drafts and I've been owned by 4 Tennessee Walking horses. (Plain shod.) Right now I have about 3,000+ model horses.
I am an amatuer photographer on the side: here's something interesting: I've shot portraits of reindeer of all things (and baby zebras!)
That's about as exciting as my life gets, though I have one more thing: I love the internet. I love being able to talk to you guys from all over the world (I have always been a linquist of sorts.) When I found the model horse hobby online, I met some great people from all over and some I consider good friends and it just tickles me everyday that I can do this. I totally admit how spoiled I am by modern technology!

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I haven't disappeared completely, I've just been busy writing
