Livin' La Vida LADA

I've been a lot of things (librarian, webmaster, cataloger, document control specialist, publishing assistant, system administrator, English major, medievalist and Anglo-Saxonist, headshop manager, lab assistant, safer sex educator, and gravedigger), and am a lot of things (married, leftist, vegetarian, geeky, overanalysing, disabled, activist, pedant and hypocritical label-hater that lives in a misanthropic intentional community)...most recently diabetic.

I've studied LIS, archival preservation, English literature, Old English, Anglo-Saxon history, Asian American Studies, Native American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, classics, psychology, math, and computer science. I speak Spanish and I've studied Japanese, German, Mandarin, and Latin. I still want to learn Cantonese, Hebrew, Norwegian, Russian, and Ancient Greek, but at this rate I'll never get around to it. They kept telling me to specialize. I think the problem was that I specialized too much.

It occurs to me now I should have called my blog "Living La Vida LADA."