About

Lindsay, the blogger

Stats

  • Name: Lindsay
  • Also Known As: Linz, Fish, often Gaia online
  • Age: 22
  • Born: August 30, on Andrews AFB, Maryland
  • Location: north central Alabama
  • Hair: so brown it looks black, with very distinctive long bangs
  • Eyes: brown, with glasses (never contacts)
  • Height: 5′8″-ish… I have really long legs.
  • Race: black
  • Status: single
  • Religion: Roman Catholic
  • Family: Mom and Dad (married for 25 years), Courtney (16), Ryan (12)

School & Work

  • Attending: University of Notre Dame
  • Studying: secondary English education
  • Alumna of: University of Maryland (B.A. English and Spanish 2008)
  • Current Job: Catholic high school English teacher

Other

  • Ambitions: to publish a book, to compete on Jeopardy!, to find a job that makes me truly happy, to discern the will of God and do it wholeheartedly
  • Reads: the Bible (RSV:CE), the Harry Potter series, the Fearless series, the Princess Diaries series, Alice in Wonderland, Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis), If You Really Loved Me (Jason Evert)
  • Listens to: the radio (Christian, pop/rock, EWTN, and NPR), Switchfoot, N*Sync, Christina Aguilera, Casting Crowns, Aly & AJ

The main thing you need to know about me is that I’m a writer. I wrote my first story in the first grade, and I have yet to stop. I’ve been keeping a journal since the sixth grade. Eventually I discovered blogging and, well, my archives tell the rest of the story. I love grammar (I can spell almost anything), reading, writing short stories, and almost anything to do with words. That’s part of the reason why I’m a lector; the Bible is such great material.

That bring me to the second big thing you have to know about me: I’m Catholic. I’m very Catholic. I go to Mass six days a week, including Sundays. I read the Bible following the Lectionary and pray the Liturgy of the Hours (LOTH) every day. I’m very active around the Catholic Student Center at UMD. I consider myself a revert, having drifted away from the Church for several years. God wanted me back, though, and when God calls, you have to respond. I recognize the authority of the Magisterium and His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. I am open and honest about my faith, but I won’t try to convert you. If you’re interested in learning more, though, I can point you in the right direction. If you have a problem with any of that, feel free to leave. Then again, if it was really a problem, you wouldn’t have read this far.

As for my perspective as a Catholic blogger, I’ll let St. Teresa of Avila lay it out for me:

“If ever I should say something that isn’t in conformity with what the Holy Roman Catholic Church holds, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This can be held as certain, and also that through the goodness of God I always am, and will be, and have been subject to her.”

The third big thing is my unapologetic love for Harry Potter. I have read all seven books, plus the schoolbooks, I’ve seen all the movies, and I love them like you wouldn’t believe. I hung out with the midnight crowd for Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows, and the Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix movies. I am a die-hard Ron/Hermione shipper (confirmed in DH!) and the maintainer of the Good Ship Guidebook. I have theories, I read mailing lists and message boards, and I know a ton of trivia. Everyone’s allowed to have an obsession.

The fourth big thing? That’s not actually my picture up there. It’s the WeeMee I use on AIM. It does look a lot like the real me, though.

If you want to know more, ask…or keep reading.

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