ann is a graduate of louisiana state university (BA, creative writing + literature, may 2005).
also she writes and also she dances in many ways. her favorite ways to dance include ballet and what happens when you listen to dirty new orleans brass funk. she hopes to improve as a modern dancer but being upside down makes her nervous.
her family is musical, large, bookish, catholic. she has a brother who is her favorite.
she learned to play the first page of bach's minuet in G at age six, by ear, to the chagrin of her theory-happy instructor. her subsequent piano education can best be described as desultory. presently she can read melodies but not rhythm. she knows chord names and structures because her guitar-playing father taught them to her.
her mother put her in sewing lessons, against her will, at age eight; this is why she knows that a standard seam allowance is five-eighths of an inch, and that life without a seam ripper is hardly worth living. for how else will you learn to be bold.
ann has paid her bills in the following ways: clerical work for a professional theatre on campus; digital video editing; TA work in creative writing and film studies at a residential academic summer camp; waiting tables; acquisitions assistant at a university library; auxiliar (language assistant) in granada, ES, working with children in grades k-6.
currently she lives in new orleans, writing grants as part of a small consulting firm housed in an old double shotgun in the riverbend neighborhood.
ann enjoys: the company of words and of people who like words; matches; candles; whiskey; kisses; iced tea with mint and lemon; unexpected chord progessions; old friends; new friends; summer; cheap fresh flowers from the grocery; coffeeshops; solitude; hot sauce; red gravy; dark chocolate; lemons; pens; syncopation; thrift store dresses; louisiana; the smell of rain; learning to cook; voodoo catholicism; red beans and rice.
this blog was a new year's promise from 2004.
