Stats
- Name: Lindsay
- Also Known As: Linz, Fish, often Gaia online
- Age: 23
- Born: August 30, on Andrews AFB, Maryland
- Location: 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 28 years), Courtney (18), Ryan (14)
School & Work
- Alumna of: University of Notre Dame (M.Ed. Secondary English Education 2010) and University of Maryland (B.A. English, Spanish minor 2008)
- Current Job: Catholic campus minister at the University of Texas at Austin
- Former Jobs: Catholic high school English teacher, communications assistant for a government language contractor, high school academic programs run by UMD
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
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 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 went to Mass six days a week, including Sundays, when I was in college. I read the Bible following the Lectionary and pray the Liturgy of the Hours (LOTH) every day. I was very active around the Catholic Student Center at UMD, and now I work at a similar center at UT, but everything I write here or have written consists of my own opinions, not necessarily those of Catholic organizations at UT or 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, Order of the Phoenix, and Half-Blood Prince movies. I am a die-hard Ron/Hermione shipper (confirmed in DH!) and maintained a fan website for the ship. I still have theories, I used to 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 used on AIM. It does look a lot like the real me, though.
If you want to know more, ask₀or keep reading.
