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belleweather January 30 2016, 15:29:36 UTC
BASICS
Name, Age: Belle, 38
Current Location: Bucharest, Romania
Hometown: I grew up in Minneapolis, MN, but at the moment home is wherever the U.S. Government tells me it is.
Gender identity & Orientation: Um. I identify as a female bisexual with complicated feelings about gender performance?
Religious/Spiritual Identity: Jewish (it's complicated)
Political Identity: The sort of liberal that is frighteningly left-wing in the U.S. and circumspectly center-left in most of the rest of the world.
Significant other, kids?: Married, functioning open relationship, three little boys.
Job: I'm from the Government, the part that is (mostly) here to help.
Major in college, if applicable: Philosophy. I studied public international law in Law School.

WHO YOU ARE
What are you passionate about?: Rule of Law, Religious Freedom, U.S. Immigration Policy and it's discontents, languages and second (third, fourth, etc.) language acquistion.
What are you interested in?: 11th C. Spain and the Convivencia and the possibility that the Ancient Dacians were all werewolves and my deep conviction that there's a novel in that somewhere.
What are your hobbies?: Reading, sewing and costuming, crochet, food -- which includes sustainable agriculture and trying to cook things from absolutely absurd places wherever I am, taking lots of pictures, and accidentally looking like an asshole in cultures not my own, which I do basically constantly.

LJ
How do you use LJ?: As a journal, a confessional and a date-book, all at the same time.
Do you comment?: Yes! I sometimes slack off but I really do make a point to comment regularly on other people's stuff, and reply to their comments to mine.
What kind of LJ friends are you looking for?: The kind that write things. (Also, probably not the kind that spend a lot of time exhorting others to examine their privilege and behave in ways that are Tumblr social justice approved, because we will likely not get on. I am highly pro social justice. I am highly anti being an asshole.)
Returnees -- How long have you been away?: Never left, been here for 15 years in October.
Returnees -- What have you missed about LJ?: Active community.

Anything else you'd like to mention?: Nope!

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colliemommie January 30 2016, 16:51:22 UTC

I totally buy that the ancient Dacians were werewolves...it explains some things

Friends?

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belleweather January 30 2016, 16:53:31 UTC
Ooooh yes! :)

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xlovebecomesher January 30 2016, 17:33:24 UTC
You sound pretty interesting! Friends?

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belleweather January 30 2016, 18:09:04 UTC
Yes, of course!

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ragnarok_08 January 30 2016, 18:10:33 UTC
Oh wow - you really seem like an amazing person - friends?

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belleweather January 30 2016, 18:15:22 UTC
Absolutely!

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ragnarok_08 January 30 2016, 18:29:47 UTC
Wonderful :DD

Adding you right now :D

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coconuthead January 30 2016, 21:09:37 UTC
I don't know what this werewolf thing is about, but I want to learn more.

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belleweather January 31 2016, 07:47:28 UTC
The ancient Dacians were the people living in Romania when the Romans got here, and they had (have?) all these myths about werewolves and none at all about Vampires. I find this completely fascinating.

Friends?

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coconuthead January 31 2016, 20:25:50 UTC
Yes!

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kk1raven January 30 2016, 23:19:29 UTC
You sound interesting. Want to be friends?

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belleweather January 31 2016, 07:45:04 UTC
Yes! Adding you now.

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opakele January 31 2016, 03:18:09 UTC
I have seen you around and am curious. You sound interesting.

May I add?

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belleweather January 31 2016, 07:44:44 UTC
Of course! Just added you back. :)

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ancarett January 31 2016, 03:58:12 UTC
I have recently spent a fair bit of time swotting up on 11th & 12th century Iberian history - it's a cool time and I'd love to meet others who like the period. We have a fair bit of other interests in common so adding you and hopes that you'll add back!

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