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From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
Subject: Re: 1993
Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 23:08:00 +0000


>Now you know who Jammer is. Who are you?
"Who am I?" asks Mary MerryTail. "Outside... About 5'3" (shoulder 
height to Ignatz or Tanais). Plump'n'cuddly, long blonde hair, 
grey-green-blue eyes, round cheeks, big smile, big blue/grey glasses. 
And don't forget my MerryTail... long, blonde, prehensile and usually 
with coloured highlights or bows or something fun. It's something 
I've always wanted and I've found it here, along with peace and 
freinds to treasure. It's teh extra hand I've always wanted to stop 
me bumping into things or dropping them or being clumsy - one more 
limb to ward off things that ae difficult to cope with. Physically, 
as I'm much more short-sighted in one eye than the other, my eyes 
focus individually - left eye sees you here, right sees you there, 
composite is *almost in the middle - so I don't always get myself in 
the right place. Can barely catch and throw and get nervous at 
rapidly-oncoming objects anyway! Mentally, I'm often so far insde my 
own head that I don't quite get my attention far enough outside to 
see things - but that's been changing a lot lately, as I've been 
growing up this year.

Inside... Usually I'm shy at first and a lot of people can overwhelm 
me. When I'm happy I often get excited, jump up and down, bounce 
around a lot, wave my arms around. I worry that this might upset 
people, but it's me! I get excited, it shows! That's the way I am and 
I hope people can enjoy that rather than find it threatening. I worry 
and think a lot about what others think....  When I'm quiet, I'm very 
quiet and abstracted, far away inside my head or in a book

Character-wise - I'm stubborn. I never really know whether astrology 
works, but I *am that typical taurus - bull-headed, earthy, caring, 
round and prone to throat problems. So many bouts of laryngytis I 
lost the sqeaky voice and am now pleasantly (to me) husky, though I 
still squeak a bit in excitement. 
I'm liking much more stuff about myself as I settle down in myself 
and my life. I'm less insecure now - I *have a life!
These days I'm lucky and happy to share it with Ignatz mouse (who is 
probably going to have something to say to this when he gets back 
from Jersey on Monday (the Channel Island not the State) - hurry back 
love, I miss you...

I'm a bookworm, I've been reading for as long as I can remember (age 
3 or 4 for certain). That's part of living in my head. I love music 
but I'm tone deaf or something, so I can only sing in tune here in 
the Place - or if people can stand the racket. I like to do creative 
things - cooking, making jam, sewing, knitting... pottery as well, 
although I haven't finished a real one yet. As Ignatz and Neil the 
Wolfman can testify, my last pot just fell to pieces - I didn't throw 
it, I dropped it and now it's modern art!

I've been a computer writer for two and a bit years, slightly longer 
if you count freelance (Kateri - really, it's great fun. Go for it!) 
Now I'm pupating into an editor, commissioning peole to write for me, 
editing and dealing with the words and the pages... This has been one 
of the best changes in my life this year. I really love my work and I 
seem to be (am! am! people have told me and I trust the telling and 
feel it's true) - am doing it well.

So...this is who I am! Hello! Jammer - thank you for your words and 
what you've given. I'm glad to have been able to say this"
Mary MeryTail hears kitten's words and toast and raises her glass in 
agreement and celebration

>'to US....to the spirit...to shared
>pain and shared joy...to 1993!'"
>
>
>
><CRASH!!!!!!>
"oh yes, m'friend! To US! To the people, the Place, the joy, the pain 
and the love"
<<<Crash-tinkly>>

Mary MerryTail wanders over to the Bi-Bulb to see if he wants any help 
getting the snow out of his fedora - she knows how many corners and nooks 
there are in a hat like that and it snow fun getting cold water down the 
back of your neck!
Emmett - that'll be *the Emmett Chapman will it? Neat instruments, those 
sticks. Do you guys know All Lovers are Deranged, from Dave Gilmour's About 
Face

"and burning wine - intoxicates and takes all caution in it's wake
but then all lovers are deranged.
The break of day will make your spirits fly
but you can't know what it means
unless you're seventeen...
We have the right to think we're right,
we're addicts feigning shame
but then all lovers are deranged."
Dance with me, Bi-Bulb?

Mary MerryTail


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| Ommmmmm, said the lift                    |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
| Organisation: Me? You're joking, right?   |maryb@cix.compulink.uucp  |
|I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-)    |
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