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NoraJean

NoraJean

  • Age: 60
  • Sex: Female
  • Location: USA
  • Occupation: Online Polymer Clay Teacher
  • Member since: Apr 2006
  • Web site: http://www.norajean.com

About me

Oh don't you just love having to come up with something new for these "about me" pages? What... I'm female and married, albeit in a weird way. I have 4 grown sons, 4 grand sons, 1 grand daughter.

I consider myself a "Rice Cracker" being half Japanese and my Dad having been from Mississippi. I love Larry the Cable Guy and Akira Kurosawa films.

I love Sci Fi books and movies that deal with dystopian societies set in the near future, it looks like a preview of coming events to me. My two former blogs got toasted with having to move to a new web host in early 2008. I've started another one and it's a "pre-fab" FrontPage theme sub section dropped in the Mystery House that is my main website.

I was once called an intellectual snob, so I like to read, watch a lot of PBS and CSPAN, send blessing to Sister Wendy and have her videos about the museums of the world.

If I were to be remembered for anything I'd like that to be that I turned my life around, saved myself from a fate of being stupid and poor to one of just being poor and philosophical. LOL No strike that, remember me for helping others goose their muse and hold their hand while they got a grip on their clay. Ya, that's the ticket.

My work

Had my first child when I was 17, got my HS degree at 21, my BA at 35, was accepted into Creative Writing Graduate School at SFSU in time for the '89 quake, when I was 40, so I ate my tuition and went out to do clerical work. Such is the romantic life of an artist.

I got myself off of welfare through education. I've been an Office Manager, Executive Assistant, Administrative Assistant and Home Health Aid for the Elderly. Domestic work comes in handy when office jobs are not available. Got caught up in the Dot.Com boom and bust cycle and don't regret a minute of it.

I teach polymer clay and miniatures online for free, been doing that since 1999. I'd work a real job if I could find one, but I don't think that boomer grandmothers are particularly marketable.

Fast facts

  • At the movies I like to see:SciFi and Willy The Shake
  • Last movie seen:Matrix, Don't like the movie theaters, buy DVDs
  • Music I listen to:Pan World
  • Best album right now:Zap Mama
  • Favorite author:William Gibson
  • Last book read:Re-Read the CyberPunk Trilogy again
  • Best game right now:Not a Gamer
  • Favorite sports team:Not into Sports
  • I'm passionate about:Watching the end of the world unfold
  • I wish I could:Make money from my art
  • Favorite travel destination:Anywhere on Delta Family Pass
  • On my vacation I..:Stay with ClayMates and teach for free
  • If I won 1 million dollars, I would:Get a Lawyer, Accountant, Personal Finance Manager and hide the whole family
  • If I were a super hero I would:Be invisible
  • Food I like:San Francisco Ethnic
  • I don't like:People who talk loud and stupid on cell phones in public places.
  • Software I use:FrontPage, PhotoShop, Premier
  • Hardware I use:PC custom made years ago, now obsolete