Who are you people?

[James Kushner]

At 09:15 PM 12/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>So I'm curious as to who you all are (whether active or not)
>and how you got hooked up with this eclectic bunch, and whether you all
>know each other.

Sorry the delay in response, but I have a general policy to only respond to 
emergency emails while I'm on vacation. I'm back now.

At this point, I probably count as a "lurker", since I participate maybe 
once or twice a year. It's something I keep *meaning* to get around to...

I'm James Kushner, age 34. I was invited onto the list by Mister Plover 
himself, Mark-Jason Dominus, whom I have known since I was around five 
years old. Currently, I live in Sarasota, FL; I was living in Los Angeles 
when I joined the list, and spent a year in Cambridge, MA before bouncing 
southward.

I have no explicit Swarthmore connection; I was accepted there way back 
when, but decided to attend the U of Chicago instead. (Lucky me; it's where 
I met Nova!) I was in Swarthmore on this recent vacation, as two friends of 
ours (married to each other) live there. She just gave birth to a HUGE (10 
lb!) baby boy, and the timing of the visit meant that Nova and I could 
attend his bris. It's the first bris I've attended since my own.

I also attended CTY, and met Ranjit there.

I am about to start my second semester of law school, at the Stetson 
University College of Law in St. Petersburg (and no, they don't give you a 
hat upon graduation). Previously, I had held several jobs, including stage 
manager, real-estate advertising coordinator, bookstore clerk (for a while 
holding the lovely title of bookstore bookkeeper), and medical research 
assistant. After all that, why not law?

Longtime fictionauts will remember that I had been part of a mailing-list 
duprass with Nova Myhill. We are still happily together in life -- she's a 
professor of English at the New College of Florida, which is why we moved 
to Sarasota -- but have moved to the stage in our lives where we no longer 
share an email address.

Other basic info: enthusiastic amateur musician (drums, bass, slide 
whistle, five-string guitar, and my Dad's old piano will be delivered to 
our house next week). Occasional contradancer. Shape-note singer. 
Vegetarian. Baseball fan and fantasy-league player. Collector of funny 
songs. Player of non-RPG, non-CCG, non-computer, non-historical games. 
Builder of bookcases.

Catch y'all later, and I hope to participate more in the future,
James