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My walk was the walk of a human child, but my heart was a tree.
"Whenever you see an oak-tree felled, swear now you will plant two."
Created on 2001-01-26 07:17:57 (#47789), last updated 2009-11-20
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Basic Info| Name: | Monument |
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| Location: | Pennsylvania, United States |
| Website: | marnanel dot org |
Bio These days, most of my public posts are to be found at http://blogs.gnome.org/tthurman (which is ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif){kind=small} tthurman), and this journal is largely friends-only.My name is Marnanel. When I was about eleven years old, my baby brother was born. He learned to talk, and as he learned, I became fascinated with the way language works. I studied as many Teach Yourself books as I could lay my hands on, especially Welsh, and designed a language of my own, Nimyad. It was in this language that I named myself marnanel, "a dreamer". I became unhappy at school, gained some desultory A-levels, went to study at Hertfordshire, did really rather well in my BSc, and ended up at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge studying natural language processing.  It was there that depression first became a major problem for me, and to cut a story short, I ended up out of college without a master's. But I stayed in Cambridge for five years anyway. I love that town. It will probably always mean home to me in one way or another.A few years later, I went on a trip to Chicago, my first trip abroad since early childhood. I had a two-hour layover in Philadelphia, and a friend of mine from online came over with zir daughter to keep me company. One thing led to another and I ended up moving out to Pennsylvania to be with them both. The friend is ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} firinel and our daughter is riordon. I love them both so much. Firinel's name means "creator" in Nimyad. My other loves are plexq, and xugglybug, and they are also very wonderful.We have three cats. I believe in the power of people working together to help one another. I believe in equality, consensus and respect. The free software movement is very important to me. I think everyone should take the time to inform themselves about the issues, and look into what they can do to help. I run Ubuntu at home and Debian at work, both using GNOME in Welsh. I'm a great fan of Emacs, but I'm learning vi. taika is my sister, thuremund is my father, and smreigner is my grandmother-in-law.My favourite colour is orange. I love chocolate. What else would you like to know? |  |
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analogy, asking questions, avvy, ballades, being barefoot, being geeky, bigstupidwordsthatnooneknows, books, c, c.s. lewis, caffeine, cake, cambridge, candles, cartoons, cathedrals, cerdd dafod, chocolate, chumbawamba, coding, coffee, communicating, compilers, computational linguistics, computer science, computers, conlang, contagious interest list memes, css, cuddling, cuddling firinel, cynghanedd, daisies, dandelions, daydreaming, debian, derusexuality, diana wynne jones, doodling, dreaming, e. nesbit, emacs, england, english, far-left woowoo progressives, fire, firinel, forgiveness, francis thompson, free software, friends, g.k. chesterton, god-awful long interest lists, grammar, green trees, greenend, groggs, growing, heraldry, hope for the flowers, html, hugs, hypertext, ice cream, interactive fiction, language, languages, latin, laughing, learning, life, linguistics, linux, livejournal, logic, love, making up words, making xugglybug blush, misdirected leisure activity, model languages, monochrome, mozilla, nailvarnish, nargery, neil gaiman, nethack, night, nimyad, not being a goth, not being bored, online communities, open source, orange, paradoxes, pasta, pedantry, people, perl, pizza, poetry, poppies, programming, python, rain storms, rainbows, reading, representation, sandals, sandman, sex, sharing the peace, silly noodles, singing really loudly, slashdot, sleep, sleeping, snow, socialism, solidarity, sonnets, sparkly things, spodding, storyhill, stretching, stuff, sunshine, surviving, the cure, the gospel, the night, the smell of rain, the three shades, they might be giants, thinking, thunderstorms, tolkien, trees, unix, usenet, walking, wasting time, water, welsh, wiki, winnie the pooh, words, writing, ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑, ☕
External Services:
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 | marnanel_1999 | |
 | marnanel@jaim.at | |
 | marnanel | |
Schools:
Lordship Farm School - Letchworth, England - Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (1980 - 1986)Highfield School - Letchworth, England - Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (1986 - 1993)
University of Hertfordshire - Hatfield, England - Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (1993 - 1997)
University of Cambridge - Cambridge, England - Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (1997 - 1998)
University of Cambridge - Sidney Sussex College - Cambridge, England - Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (1997 - 1998)
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