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| User: | mrissa (700441) 
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
(Even though I wasn't sick of the trolls yet.)
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| Name: | Marissa Lingen |
| Website: | http://www.marissalingen.com |
| Location: | Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1978-07-26 |
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| mrissa | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance."
To live in one of those times need not mean turning one’s back on the other.
--John M. Ford
To live is to war with trolls
In the holds of the heart and mind;
To write is to hold
Judgment Day over the self.
--Henrik Ibsen
(I'm actually a good deal more interested in fighting trolls than in Judgment Day -- and a good deal more in agreement with that part of the quote, as it happens.)
I'm a freelance writer of speculative fiction and educational materials. I have lived in Omaha, NE; Lawrence, KS; St. Peter, MN; Toledo, OH; Corvallis, OR; Concord, CA; and Hayward, CA. If you think you know me from any of those places, try me and see. I am, however, a Minnesota girl all the way through. I am in love with this state.
I used to be in nuclear physics at LLNL, but I'm recovering from that. Close call, there.
(And Livejournal is smoking crack: I do NOT live in St. Paul. I live in Eagan. Which is on the west side of the river, dammit.)
My other journal was syndicated at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) novel_gazing. Now I don't post there except for pictures sometimes.
I used to friend people back if they friended me and were not regularly posting about things I didn't want to read about. Lately it's not nearly so automatic on my part, but you should feel free to friend me if you like; I don't mind. Please introduce yourself if you don't have many entries or interests listed on your lj, especially if I've met you in real life and might not know it. |
| Memories: | 19 entries |
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public |
| Interests: | 30: alice's restaurant anti-massacre movement, baking, baseball, books, cooking, elisem's jewelry, fantasy, finland, hiking, hockey, iceland, interstitial arts, manhattan project, minneapolis, minnesota, mythology, neuropsychology, norway, physics, scandinavia, science fiction, self-parody, speculative fiction, spinoza, stitial arts, sweden, swimming, talking, writing, young adult fiction |
| Schools: | Ralston High School - Ralston, NE (1992 - 1995)
Gustavus Adolphus College - St. Peter, MN (1995 - 1999)
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| Friends: |  | 249: | 1crowdedhour, adrian_turtle, adriennelily, aedifica, akillianna, akirlu, alecaustin, allochthon, angeyja, anne_mommy, apis_mellifera, applewoman, arkuat, aszanoni, atheilen, athenais, autopope, avocadovpx, azhure, badger2305, barondave, beenasjournal, bradipo, bridragon, brithistorian, brooksmoses, buttonlass, buymeaclue, cadithial, cakmpls, callunav, carbonel, careswen, casacorona, cattitude, ccfinlay, chimera_fancies, ckd, clarentine, cmpriest, coachcathy, coffeeem, columbina, coppervale, copperwise, cpolk, crimini, cristalia, dancinghorse, dancingwriter, darkfantasist, davekirtley, dd_b, ddj_gallery, deannahoak, desperance, dherblay, dhole, dichroic, dlandon, dolphin__girl, eileenlufkin, elaine_andraste, elisem, elizabethbear, ellameena, ellarien, eposia, erickavan, eugie, evangoer, everyonesakitty, fairmer, fgherman, fireriven, flewellyn, fmi_agent, fmsv, fredcritter, gaaldine, gaaneden, garunya, genevra, greatestofnates, greykev, guipago, guppiecat, haddayr, halfmoon_mollie, hanneblank, hbevert, hypatia_j, icedrake, intrepida, iraunink, jackiejj, jenett, jffgrnfld, jimhines, jmeadows, joel_rosenberg, joelrosenberg, johnjosephadams, johnmierau, jonsinger, juliansinger, jymdyer, kalikanzara, kalmn, karenmkk_610, katallen, katfeete, kaustin, kendwoods, kijjohnson, kirizal, komododaikon, krittersjournal, ksumnersmith, ktempest, kythiaranos, ladysea, laurel, lexiphanic, logovore, lollardfish, lotusice, loupnoir, lovecraftienne, lthomas987, lutin, lydy, lynnal, mackatlaw, madmanatw, madwriter, magentamn, malachitefer, mamapduck, mamculuna, markgritter, markiv1111, marykaykare, matastas, matociquala, mattgritter, mckitterick, mechaieh, mellificent, mgs, mightyjesse, minnehaha, mirrorthaw, misia, missista, miz_hatbox, mkhobson, mkille, mmerriam, mnfiddledragon, morecoffeeem, mormor1, morr, mplscorwin, mplsvala, msisolak, msquared, museum_girl, netmouse, nihilistic_kid, numinicious, oath_of_feanor, one_undone, onehipmama, onyxhawke, orangemike, orbitalmechanic, oursin, ozarque, pameladean, panjianlien, papersky, pegkerr, pentacon, pezwitch, pnh, porphyrin, profrobert, raecarson, redbird, retrobabble, reveritas, rezendi, roadnotes, roane, rosefox, rushthatspeaks, rysmiel, sartorias, scalzi, scott_lynch, scottjames, sdn, seabream, seagrit, sensational, sethb, sienamystic, silentcal, sksperry, skylarker, skzbrust, smferris, snurri, songwind, splash_the_cat, sraun, stellar_magpie, steve_dash_o, stevenagy, stillnotbored, stillsostrange, supergee, suzimoses, swan_tower, tacithydra, tanaise, the_flea_king, the_overqual, the_red_shoes, thorintatge, timprov, tmseay, tnh, todfox, truepenny, voidmonster, wilfulcait, wordswoman, writingortyping, wshaffer, yhlee, yhlwriting, zalena, zed_lopez, zellandyne, zorinth, zunger, zwol |  | 11: | 1800backlit1900, 4th_st_fantasy, comic_foxtrot, farthingparty, fenceriders, finno_ugristics, glass_cats, harmonicons, nemesis_draco, spuddragon, tor_underground | | 41: | _miss_manners, ansiblezine, babynamewizard, bat_girl_twins, bookslut, bruce_schneier, centaur73, comfort_soup, ddb_net, dichroic2, dirac_angestun, dragonseptarts, dutchadventure, electroside, emmabull_blog, fafblog, farahmendelsohn, go_fug_yourself, hanne_blank, immingpool, indexedblogspot, kat_feed, kathryncramer, making_light, mechaieh_js, meme_machine_go, merrie_haskell, officialgaiman, onion_leo, pantoum_persist, pubrants, saudisandy, scalzifeed, shetterly, slacktivist, susan_palwick, tnh_particles, tobiasbuckell, widget_factory, wintwins, xkcd_rss |
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| Mutual Friends: | 235: 1crowdedhour, adrian_turtle, adriennelily, aedifica, akillianna, akirlu, alecaustin, allochthon, angeyja, anne_mommy, apis_mellifera, applewoman, arkuat, aszanoni, atheilen, athenais, autopope, avocadovpx, azhure, badger2305, barondave, beenasjournal, bradipo, bridragon, brithistorian, brooksmoses, buttonlass, buymeaclue, cadithial, cakmpls, callunav, carbonel, careswen, cattitude, ccfinlay, ckd, clarentine, cmpriest, coachcathy, columbina, coppervale, copperwise, cpolk, crimini, cristalia, dancinghorse, dancingwriter, darkfantasist, davekirtley, dd_b, ddj_gallery, deannahoak, desperance, dherblay, dhole, dichroic, dlandon, dolphin__girl, eileenlufkin, elaine_andraste, elisem, elizabethbear, ellameena, ellarien, eposia, erickavan, eugie, evangoer, everyonesakitty, fairmer, fgherman, fireriven, flewellyn, fmi_agent, fmsv, fredcritter, gaaldine, gaaneden, garunya, genevra, greatestofnates, greykev, guipago, guppiecat, haddayr, halfmoon_mollie, hbevert, hypatia_j, icedrake, intrepida, iraunink, jackiejj, jenett, jffgrnfld, jimhines, jmeadows, johnjosephadams, jonsinger, juliansinger, jymdyer, kalikanzara, kalmn, karenmkk_610, katallen, katfeete, kaustin, kendwoods, kijjohnson, kirizal, ksumnersmith, ktempest, kythiaranos, ladysea, laurel, lexiphanic, logovore, lollardfish, lotusice, loupnoir, lovecraftienne, lthomas987, lutin, lydy, lynnal, mackatlaw, madmanatw, madwriter, magentamn, malachitefer, mamapduck, mamculuna, markgritter, markiv1111, marykaykare, matastas, matociquala, mattgritter, mckitterick, mechaieh, mellificent, mgs, mightyjesse, minnehaha, mirrorthaw, missista, miz_hatbox, mkhobson, mkille, mmerriam, mnfiddledragon, ... |
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| Member of: | 8: 1800backlit1900, 4th_st_fantasy, farthingparty, fenceriders, minicon, nemesis_draco, paidmembers, tor_underground |
| Account type: | Permanent Account |
