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About Loretta

Well, lessee. What can I say about me?

"First of all, I would like to make something quite clear. I never explain anything!"
--Mary Poppins

I'm 24 and I live in Astoria, Queens, about a half hour subway ride from mid-town Manhattan. I love Astoria. I have a sister named Charlotte and a huge, huge, huge extended family.

In the past few years, I've worked a lot of places. An internet marketing place called Xceed. Totally stoopid place, went down the tubes. Um, not to bad-mouth my former co-workers. A lot of them are tremendous people -- it's not their fault the place was stoopid.

Then after that I worked at a big famous ad agency, Young and Rubicam, if you want to know. Not a terrible job, but not a thrilling one, either. They were making cut backs, and I got cut. Well, whatever.

Now I work for Kaplan, the test preparation company. I teach, tutor, and work the front desk and it's dull, dull, dull. And sometimes quite frightening. But I am not my job. Having now seen both sides of the fence, I am still not sure which is worse: being unemployed, or being employed.

Before all of this, I went to NYU -- I graduated in May of 2000. Did I really hate NYU? Not really. I just felt like it wasn't the place to go if you want to be in college and have a college experience of... being in college. You dig? It ended up okay, I guess, in that I met some lovely people that I wouldn't have met if I had gone somewhere else. Continuing in an educational vein, I'm going for my masters in teaching at some point. I'm accepted at Hunter, which is a pretty good school and supa-cheap. So I just gotta get going on that.

Some things I like.
music

  • Tori Amos
  • Badly Drawn Boy. Think Beck crossed with the Beatles and you're on the right track.
  • Coldplay
  • Bjork
  • Kate Bush
  • Ani DiFranco, folk hero
  • Led Zeppelin. ::sigh::
  • Liz Phair
  • The Prodigals. Duh!
  • Radiohead
  • Happy Rhodes, one of the most impressive musicians alive
  • many more, of course. female singer song-writers, except the really whiney ones, and trippy ambient stuff, and neat brit-pop, and old fashioned hard rock.

    words -- authors and one of my favorites of theirs

  • Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)
  • Jane Austen (Pride and Predjudice)
  • Scott Cunningham (Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner)
  • e e cummings (in just spring)
  • Roald Dahl (Matilda)
  • Neil Geiman (Sandman series)
  • Stephen King (Gunslinger series)
  • Anne McCaffrey (whole silly Pern series)
  • Sharon Olds (The Dead and the Living)
  • Shakespeare (really! I mean it!) (Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest)
  • John Steinbeck (Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday)
  • Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canturbury Tales) -- I have such a crush on Chaucer.
  • Rumiko Takahashi (Ranma 1/2)
  • Banana Yoshimoto (Kitchen)
  • Sue Grafton (A is for Alibi, B is for Burglar, and so on)
  • Agatha Christie, proof that women know murder and know it well.

    Other things I like

  • my family and friends
  • the island of Santorini
  • the island of Ireland
  • the boys in Ireland
  • my guitar, Daphne
  • guitars in general
  • boys who play guitar or bass. yum!
  • Sharon's Sorbet, chocolate flavor
  • my pleasing mouse that shoots red lights out of the bottom and works so well
  • when my little students call me "Miss Loretta"

    What is this website?
    I don't know. What do you think it is?

    Okay, let me try to tell you. You know when you're thinking something and you want to put that thought somewhere? That's what musings is for.

    I'm a fan of the Prodigals and I was looking up lyrics to the traditional songs they've done arrangements of, and I realized that I might as well put everything I learned in one usable source. I really wanted to do that once I started figuring out chords to the songs, too.

    Someone gave me a book about Wicca when I was 18, and I felt like someone had written down on paper everything I'd always sort of thought, my whole life, and I felt -- vindicated, maybe. Like, I'm not alone in this. So I'm hoping that maybe the Wicca section might do that for someone -- not convert you, heavens no! Do what makes you happy, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else -- you can worship goats, as long as it brings you peace. Anyway, the Wicca stuff might just teach you some stuff you didn't know. And that's always good.

    In addition, as I may or may not have said before: the internet is a great outlet for all our egotism and self-loathing. There's not much room in my head for everything that goes on so I'm uploading it here, where there's plenty of room.

    My thoughts on most things:
    Try to be kind, not just to me and my website, but to yourself and your enemies.

    "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
    - Carl Jung

    updated last: 1/2/03