I don’t live…I act
I’ve died so often, made love so much,
I’ve lost track of what is real.
Seeing is believing, but the eye is easily fooled
My name, for all intents and purposes, is Alice. I have been writing under this name for about ten years, however I have had an online journal for 12 years. When I first started journaling I called myself Zoe, was outed, blah blah blah… so I became Alice. It is fitting in so many ways.
Over the span of my online journaling I have moved a lot. I started out with a journal called Spontaneous Oral Expulsions, then The Neuroticist, which turned into Reading Between the Lines, followed by In Plain Sight, and spent a while as Zeit, which morphing into Mad Redhead and then Assume Nothing. I have switched from the latter two titles a few time and settled on using both of them.
I was born in California, but was only there for about four years before my family moved overseas. Therefore, all of my formidable years were spent in the Far East, South Pacific, and Europe.
My upbringing was different then most kids of my generation. My mother always worked and we were never allowed to talk about what my father really did. Actually, I didn’t find out the truth until a few years ago. I was basically raised by my sister and a string of live in housekeepers. This helped in my language acquisition… I had four different languages under my belt by the time I reached eleven.
I do have a past. No, I did not sell my body nor was I overly promiscuous. I don’t think I was ever really in trouble with the law per se, but I still have a past. It slips into an entry now and again… after eleven years of writing online it would.
My education and career choices are as varied as the countries that I have lived in and sometimes I think I am still searching for what I want to be when I grow up, which is something I never really want to do. Right now, however, I am an educator (well ex-educator) who has an expiration date.. You can laugh now
I share my home with the eldest of my three grown children, he is a little OCD and has Down syndrome. My daughter bought a house about a mile or two away and my youngest son lives all of three and a half blocks away. We are a very close somewhat odd family unit.
I have been described as unconventional, obsessive, totally irreverent, outspoken, and on rare occasions witty. I was once a master at backgammon and my brain contains tons of useless trivia. It has been said I am obsessed with Scrabble, which might is true.
This is a work of friction.
Any resemblance to situations, conditions, places or people, living or dead, is purely coincidental and down right on the mark. Copyright ©1997-2010 by me. All rights reserved .
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