: About Me

I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a man, two cats, and no children as yet. I'm on Helium because my current job, while it pays the bills, has a salary rather less than my yearly tuition was for the university at which I got my degree in writing, and I'd really love to make that degree count for something.

I've got a personal style that is probably best described as "eclectic"-I'm pretty girly in appearance and dress, but I love action movies, roleplaying games, and other traditionally guy pursuits. Then again, I do knit an awful lot.

My passion is ...

textiles

I know too much about ...

obscure needle crafts

My childhood ambition ...

to be a ballerina, and also a football player

Why I write ...

Because I can

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Dresden Files series

Hobbies & Games > Card Games Is poker a sport?

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Before deciding whether poker is a sport, there first has to be a decent definition of the term.  Looking at the activities commonly called "sports", there's very little in the way of common traits: a sport can have teams like football or be solo like diving; it can involve extensive equipment like skiing or use nothing more than the player's own body like running; it can be all about precision as in archery or require sheer strength as in weightlifting. There are only two elements that are common to all sports: they're competitions, and a physical activity is an integral part of...

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