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The Bookworm: Otherwise Normal and Boring
The Bookworm, who has about fifteen other nicknames, cognomens, and aliases, is a second-year teacher of Latin and Literature pursuing her MA in English on the side, thanks to Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. Previously, the Bookworm has studied Literature at Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as Latin at Millsaps College, also in Jackson, Mississippi. She learned to read when barely out of diapers (or so the legend goes) and was raised in the healthy and cultured environment of a bookstore. Simultaneous with this early childhood literary experience, she also learned to play the piano very badly, although she has improved over the years and now boasts a fair understanding of cello as well. She dabbles in guitar on the side.
When not reading, writing, teaching, studying, or playing music, the Bookworm can generally be found stressing over applications for various doctoral programs, taking photographs, swimming, riding a bicycle, watching films and live theatre performances (as time allows), reading the dictionary, or doing laundry (a perpetual but necessary agony). She loathes onions, wasps, and ironing and strives to be as abnormal as is humanly possible (rumor has it that this is partially due to the necessity, as a teacher, of remaining one step ahead of one's students).
The Bookworm spent ten years of her childhood aspiring to life as a professional dancer, and might have reached this goal had she not suffered a spinal injury in the fall of 2000, which was exascerbated in a car accident two years later. Fortunately, God is amazing, and the Bookworm was miraculously healed in the Spring of 2004 (an amazing story and one she loves to tell). She is a professing Christian with many, many flaws and a very big mouth, so please forgive her if she seems pushy: it's hard not to share something you love, and God is an enormous love of hers.
Aside from this, the Bookworm is utterly normal and boring.