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- From: trish_r@mind.ORG (Trish Rucker)
- Newsgroups: alt.personals
- Subject: Hi From Atlanta
- Message-ID: <XNewXB1w165w@mind.ORG>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 15:27:08 -0500
- Organization: Fortress Development HQ
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- I'm interested in making friends who live in the Atlanta
- area and enjoy the arts . . . or corresponding via
- Internet with anyone who has similar interests.
-
- I'm a Georgia native -- and sometimes southern belle.
- In my 32 years I've been a singing telegram messenger
- named Bessie Mae Mucho, a cook at a health food
- restaurant, a summer stock actress, a window dresser, &
- a governess for an Israeli family . . .
-
- I currently work as a freelance writer. I write poetry,
- short stories, and short-shorts ("sudden fiction"). My
- poems & stories have appeared in over 30 literary
- magazines, including, recently, Poetry East, Columbia:
- A Magazine of Poetry & Prose, & The Southern Poetry
- Review. My other freelance work is diverse, & includes
- articles, desktop publishing, editing, word processing,
- temp work, & pet sitting.
-
- My likes include poetry (Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Neruda,
- Olds, Whitman, Jarrell, Roethke, Goldbarth, Forche,
- Yeats, more-more-more) . . . TV news . . . talking on the
- telephone . . . museums . . . mysteries . . . hot tea &
- muffins . . . tulips . . . calico cats, dachshunds, &
- most animals . . . Eastern European culture . . .
- theology (esp. Catholic and Episcopal) . . . candles .
- . . board games . . . fairytales, folklore, & urban
- legends . . . frozen yogurt . . . 1960's TV . . . Howard
- Finster's art . . . taking black-&-white photos of
- unusual places . . . listening to music & watching a
- summer thunderstorm . . . curling up with popcorn & old
- movies on the VCR . . . reading in the bathtub (from
- Milan Kundera to The Weekly World News -- & lots in
- between) . . . a variety of music (faves include Kate
- Bush, Chris Isaak, REM, U2, Enya, Smiths, Smithereens,
- Pogues, Roches, Doors, Beatles, early Kinks, UB40, Tosh,
- Marley, kd lang, Hank, Patsy, Billie Holiday, Miles
- Davis, Chick Corea, the Nevilles, & lots, lots more) .
- . . . movies (Woody Allen, Ken Russell, Merchant & Ivory,
- more) . . . vintage clothes . . . eating out (funky
- little intown places, Mex, Italian, Greek) . . . bowling
- . . . putt-putt . . . bingo halls . . . drive-in movies
- . . . baseball (the Braves!) . . . the beach . . .
- cooking (my rice & veggie burgers are legendary) . . .
- being a Big Sister . . . parties . . . holidays . . .
- festivals . . . dancing . . . treasure hunting at flea
- markets, thrift stores & yard sales . . . art openings
- . . . Northern Exposure (Chris is my ideal man & Maggie
- is my role model) . . . picnics & roller skating in
- Piedmont Park . . . playing with my cat Zelda . . .
- bumming around with friends on a lazy weekend day . . .
- having fun & doing crazy things (Carpe Diem!!!) . . .
-
- Similar interests? Drop me a note via Internet at the
- following address:
-
- trish.rucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com
-