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Sun, 28 September 2008 17:50  |
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 Black Bear
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Here's a spot for new users and old friends to say hi and tell Robin (and everyone) a little about themselves!
As I've broken the ice and started the topic... I'm Black Bear, I'm one of the mods, and I'm an exhibit developer at a children's museum. I've been a fan of Robin's books for a good long time, and stumbling across her blog last year was an extremely happy accident!
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #99 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Sun, 28 September 2008 18:28  |
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Hellooo! I'm jmeadows (but you can call me Jodi if you want). I've been reading Robin's books since my teens, and following her blog since she started it over on LJ. And very happy she did!
I'm a ferret person, a yarn person, and a book person. Watch out, or I'll get you addicted to knitting or spinning. The ferret in my avatar is Leanne. She is a secret princess.
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Smooshes!
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #324 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Thu, 09 October 2008 21:29 |
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Hi All, Im Stacey in New Zealand.
Do I win the prize for being furtherest away?
Anyway I have been a fan of Robins since I picked up Hero and Crown about 30 years ago. My favouritest book of hers is Blue Sword.
I am not a dog person, I have two adorable Birman cats instead (who delight in shedding long white hairs over everything)
I am an avid gardner and reader of SF and Fantasy. I like to watch certain TV shows (House, Life, NCIS, Greys Anatomy etc) I work in corporate IT and have been working with computers for 20+ years (showing my age here!)
Funny I was thinking a couple of weeks ago with all the comment traffic on Robins blog that what she really needed was a Forum 
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #338 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Thu, 09 October 2008 21:53 |
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Hey everyone!
I started reading Robin's books when I was very small, stumbled across her shiny-new blog looking for something new to read from her. ^^
I'm a student at the moment, and a professional theatre techie. I love working n live theatre, this magic of taking words on a page and bringing them into a live vision I can actually share with other people. I'm usually stage managing, so once it's up and running, it's up to me to make it all happen smoothly!
I live with my boyfriend in a college town in Oregon, with our two cats and a whole lot of computers and books. I've got a lot of random hobbies, mostly involving tech and/or fibercrafts. Recently, I've been crocheting and knitting with copper wire and beads for jewelry. I grew up sewing and spinning and weaving... one of these days I want to make myself a corset. Uhh.... I think I've rambled enough now! I'm happy to get into a forum when it's small... I get intimidated trying to read everything on a more established forum... >.>
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #360 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 00:30 |
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Kristin in MT
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Registered: October 2008
Location: NW Montana, USA |
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Howdy all,
Yowza, a forum, how cool is that?!
I've been a long-time fan of RMcK since I was in high school, say 25 years ago? I started out with Blue Sword, fell in *love*, then ran right out and bought her OTHER book, Beauty.  I've been on board ever since.
I live with my long-time partner, Stef (the Chef), in rural Montana. I work at the library in the next town over where it was my recent pleasure to be the FIRST one to read the library copy of Chalice. It's quite a small library but I'm proud to say that the McKinley section is very well represented.
I don't think my avatar is up yet but when it is, the wild-eyed minx in the photo is Chai, our Chesapeake Bay retriever mix. There's a better beauty shot but this, I think, is more representative of her character. 
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #375 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 06:15 |
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AJLR
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Hello all,
AJLR here, as you can see. I've been reading Robin's blog since about a week after it started last year, having stumbled upon it very fortuitously. I've been reading her books for a long time (not sure how long), having started with Blue Sword and continuing on to everything else from there.
I live in England, work with educational technology, and am a keen gardener (fruit and vegetables too - ::waves to Erika in Colorado::) wildlife enthusiast, cook, and reader. I am part-owned by a tabby cat (she also has dibs on my husband). Oh yes, and I'm one of the mods. Good to meet everyone.
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #388 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 07:32 |
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I'm tall and clumsy. I play bagpipes with a band. (OK, I do solos, too) I'm also an artist. I like knitting. I never seem to get enough sleep. Reading is my drug of choice.
I didn't find Blue Sword until after I'd had 4 kids, immediately fell in love with it and read it again. After that, I read all of Robin's books that I could lay my hands on, but stopped in surprise at Spindle's Endbecause my first two kids were named Rose and Catriona!
I work for an airline. For now.
That's all of me that I can remember right now.
Scar
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
T.P.
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #389 is a reply to message #375 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 08:01 |
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| AJLR wrote on Fri, 10 October 2008 04:15 |
. . .and am a keen gardener (fruit and vegetables too - ::waves to Erika in Colorado::)
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I don't know how you people do the gardening thing. I have to really work to keep even dandelions alive!
Scar
"People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around."
T.P.
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #393 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 09:41 |
ghibbitude
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA |
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Hey Everyone!
My name is Denise, and I've been reading Robin's work since I was probably about nine ( I was very precocious and felt that she and Madeline L'Engle were the only "Children's Writers" that actually catered to the superior intellect of anyone that's at eye height with the kitchen table. (Kids are much more intelligent than most authors understand!) Since then I've read through 4 copies of The Blue Sword and Hero and the Crown (though, one copy of hero and the crown was dropped in the bath, I still read it until the pages fell out.) And at least 2 copies each of Spindles's End and Rose Daughter - After which my husband tracked down hard covers of every book (and forbade me in bathing with the hard backs, I have a little shelf in my bathroom with all the last generation of abused paperbacks specific for the purpose of relaxing baths.
I even have the (described by Robin) Hideous Bookjackets for Blue Sword and Hero.
Beyond that - I have three cats, am an avid reader, of authors other than Robin as well, and have no roses that are worth mentioning.
oh, also I bake in droves!!
[Updated on: Fri, 10 October 2008 09:45]
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott Adams
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #405 is a reply to message #389 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 10:50 |
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I'm not so good at the gardening either... we've got some herbs out front that survive mostly because I picked the toughest ones I could find! My father gardens, so I grew up with wonderful fruit trees and a garden full of roses (probably about 20 bushes)... if I ever have to take over that garden, I'll probably have to hire someone....
Baking though.. baking I'm good at. I do it to relax/unwind. For the most part, I avoid pastries and such that I didn't make myself. Unfortunately, my oven is out of commission.... our cats keep bringing in live mice to play with, and one of them decided that the insulation of a stove was the -perfect- place to live... *shudder*
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #414 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 11:51 |
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Bratsche
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Washington State, USA |
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Hello all! I'm Wendy. I'm a professional musician (hence the user name -- German for viola), teacher, mom, and happily married wife.
I'm also a rabid reader of Robin's books (and, no, I don't intend to get a shot to cure it!). A friend of mine gave me Beauty one night many years ago and I promptly stayed up until 3 a.m. because I couldn't put it down. And, then, oh joy oh rapture, I was able to go find the few other books she had written at that point. A wonderful new author, what a book-lover's dream come true. And even better, some years down the road now, she's still writing (huzzah for Chalice)!
In addition to reading, I enjoy riding horses (my Connie is actually two horses, Fame & Sunny), cross stitch, sewing, baking, spending time outdoors, being with my family (husband and two girls), petting our 9 barn cats.
It's nice to meet you all.
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #416 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 12:13 |
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fiveforsilver
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Hi, everyone, I'm fiveforsilver aka Anna. I'm in New Hampshire, recently moved from Michigan (well, a year ago - it still feels very recent to me). I was a college student until not too long ago. I have a degree in art (studio art, i.e. making things, not art history) and most of a degree in jewelry design.
I've been temping for a few years, so I've had a variety of different jobs, but nothing really steady. Currently I'm working for a company that is scanning another company's files into the computer so that company no. 2 can go from a paper filing system to a digital filing system. It's...a job. There are good sides and bad sides.
I have one big black cat with a name that only about a third of the people I tell it to actually understand, much less can pronounce (Asimov). He's a bit of a brat sometimes, but I love him.
I remember "borrowing" my sister's copy of Hero when I was in middle school, and borrowing Beauty from the school library over and over again. I still have that copy of Hero - it's more than a little battered around the edges - but now I have my own copies of everything else. Like many of the rest of us, I'm an avid reader, and having a full-time job cuts annoyingly into my reading time.
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #420 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 12:27 |
Jennifer
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Hey everyone! I'm Jennifer. I feel so new to Robin McKinley books, compared to y'all! I'm still in High School. I live in Texas, and I started reading her books about 5 years ago. (She's now my favorite author. =D)
I have one kitty, Anakin, and I like reading (obviously), cooking, crocheting, and sleeping.
I stumbled across the LJ blog awhile back, and am now an avid reader.
...Think that's it, I'm excited about the Forum, though! =)
She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine-tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins. - D.Adams
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #434 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 14:59 |
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Akai
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Hello, I'm Akai (also known as Hallie).
I found Robin's blog by accident one day about three months ago when I was bored at work and stalking my favorite authors' web-pages, hoping for new books would come out soon. I discovered Robin's books in 7th grade when we had to read Hero for class.
I live in Northern California(for now) and listen to static at work, which is also known as distress communications. (Static is good, it means no one is in trouble. I love static.)
Other than reading, I embroider, knit, and do calligraphy. I have a black thumb that kills succulents, so i spare the roses by not buying them. I lust after them anyway, but I do not buy them.
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self respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
--H.L. Mencken
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #437 is a reply to message #91 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 16:03 |
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Lusty Librarian
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Hi all, I've been a fan of Robin's books since a was a teenager. Just, ahem, a couple brief decades ago. I stumbled upon her blog while haunting her website for news of upcoming books a couple years after Sunshine was published. I'm a tattooed librarian who enjoys the theater, playing piano, home renovations, and above all reading! I live in Philadelphia with my partner and our two dogs.
A special shout out to all the moderators for getting the forum up and running. You folks rock!
Librarians are the shadiest creatures this side of the Russian mob. Scratch the adamantly bland demeanor of any librarian and you'll find trails of broken hearts, bathtubs full of meth fixings, and covert careers in porn.
David Schmader, Stranger.com
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| Re: Welcomes and Introductions! [message #439 is a reply to message #436 ] |
Fri, 10 October 2008 16:07 |
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Well, if it blows up too much, I might be able to help. I'm working tech support at the moment, so one would hope I know my way around a computer!
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