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- From: aboltwoo@superior.carleton.ca (Alana Boltwood)
- Subject: Looking for a penpal from somewhere far away, with whom to discuss interesting things
- Message-ID: <aboltwoo.725672199@cunews>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:36:39 GMT
- Lines: 46
-
- Hi Everybody.
-
- It would be nice if there were some interesting stuff in my email,
- about once a week. Usually there is nothing in my email. So I would
- like a penpal.
-
- I am a student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I
- am in the fourth and final year of an undergraduate Statistics
- program. When I graduate in May I hope to have a job in social science
- research (e.g. survey methodology).
-
- I have this computer account
- for use in my stats courses; I'm no Unix guru or anything! (Most of
- the net would think I was only semi-computer literate, but the net is
- very literate. In fact I teach statistical computing to intro stats
- students here, as a TA.) So I would like a penpal who doesn't always
- want to talk computers. (Whether you want to talk stats is up to you.)
-
- My outside interests are many. I like music and have played
- piano, saxophone and flute (and I collect musical toys). I consider
- politics a spectator sport (US national in particular, but elections
- anywhere are entertaining.) I am very interested in feminism and
- social justice issues. I dabble a little in linguistics, and I
- speak/write French reasonably and German unreasonably. I have a few
- snail-mail penpals around the world, and I really like writing letters.
-
- I would like a penpal who is "far away", meaning anywhere
- but the 5th floor of Dunton Tower at Carleton University. But the
- further away, the more exciting! I will tell you about Canada if you
- tell me about your country.
-
- I don't care about your age, sex, race, height, weight, hair
- colour, etc. In deference to the discriminatory culture, I will
- inform you that I am 20 years old and biologically female. Neither is
- relevant, since I am interested in a penpal, not electronic romance.
-
- If you want to drop me a line, please do so. I should warn
- you that I am quite busy with school and social life, so I may not
- have time to answer everyone who replies. And I won't be able to send
- messages to a penpal every day. But if you too would like to log in
- with "You have new mail" occasionally, please write.
-
- Alana Boltwood
- aboltwoo@ccs.carleton.ca
-