I bet you thought I was gone!
Please note: I am also a content producer for Associated Content.

(What belongs in a homenode, anyway?)

If I have made a spelling, grammatical, or factual error in a writeup, please /msg me about it. I'm one of those damn perfectionists. Thanks!

Homenode, Part I - The External Connections

Websites: http://journal.amanita.net/ - http://www.cydyblog.net/
See also: http://dmoz.org/profiles/etoile.html
And also: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=woofiegrrl
E-mail: everything2 @ amanita.net
Instant Messaging: ICQ: 13589128 - AIM: amanitadotnet - Yahoo!: dyke_in_dc - MSN: passport @ amanita.net (I love Trillian)

Homenode, Part II - The Facts (Hardlinked, Pipelinked!)

General: I am 25 years old and tattooed. I have a wife, we live together (along with four useless creatures) in Northern Virginia. I grew up in Columbia, MD and attended Wilde Lake High School and Western Maryland College; I have taken night classes at Gallaudet University and Northern Virginia Community College. I have a ham radio license. I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian and one-time model.
Languages: English, French, and ASL. Also formerly Russian. Aspirations to Esperanto, German, Italian, and Dutch. Curious about Arabic, Klingon, Hebrew, Turkish, and Tagalog.
Free Time: I spend too much time on LambdaMOO and even more time blogging and playing with related activities. I crochet, do calligraphy, and enjoy word puzzles, including crosswords. I like a good coloring book. I play double bass, and I enjoy driving. I dig lists and catalogs (the latter being a good version of the former). I like amusement parks and roller coasters (and Roller Coaster Tycoon, and also The Sims).
Collecting: I collect shot glasses (having inherited my late grandmother's collection), keychains, and autographs (don't have too many of those). I would like to say I collect Cat's Meow Village pieces, but I only have five of them. I used to collect stamps.
Brain and Body: I fit under four DSM-IV classifications: 314.01 (combined type), 296.33 (recurrent, severe, without psychotic features), 300.02, and 780.52. I have suffered from chronic urticaria since February 1999; it is an idiopathic autoimmune thing and currently controlled with massive amounts of antihistamines. I also have a hereditary form of arthritis.

Homenode, Part III - The Nodes and Such

Potential Nodes: Howard County, Maryland. Vienna, VA. It's Academic. Northern Sun Merchandising. Salmonberries. Stone Butch Blues. Switchouse. Theophile Steinlen. Washingtonian (the magazine). Druuna. The automobile-sized version of Magnetic Poetry. Why people who get the wrong number make it out to be your fault. Ryan White. PalmGear. Baldassare Peruzzi. Madame Chinchilla. The "small gift, big smile" slogan. Heather Has Two Mommies. Millennium March on Washington. Just For Laughs. Lesbian Avengers. The events that took place on Mount Everest on May 10, 1996. Victorinox. Zagat.
My Daylogs: August 15, 2001. August 24, 2001. October 10, 2001. October 13, 2001. April 2, 2002. September 6, 2002. March 8, 2003.
Thanks Mom!: Southeast Unitarian Universalist Summer Institute. Columbia. Fibromyalgia.
Upvoting, Downvoting: I believe Explicate Your Lyrics should be required reading, and this is reflected in my voting on lyric writeups. If you just copy the text and don't hardlink at all except to the artist's or album's name, I will downvote it. If you use clever pipelinks and/or provide additional information about the song, I will upvote it.

Homenode, Part IV - The People, Oh, The People

Noders I have met live and in person (more or less in order of meeting) who didn't run away screaming: momomom. qeii. Kiki. vomsorb. wellsie. ili. Necanthrope. Mouthpiece. drummergrrl. Golem. Toxick. Deadbolt. SlightlyMadman. sleeping wolf. MizerieRose. sphere777. Thuper Ranger. dihydrogen monoxide. Brian Feldman. anomaly. Chris-O. LadySun.
Groups: JayBonci added me to activecrt on October 17, 2001. At some point somebody added me to outies without my having to ask for it, but I'm out of it now. I was in E2SS when that existed for the E2 Secret Santa 2002 exchange..
<czeano> etoile is people who KNOW people, man
Chris-O says DUDE YOU FUCKING ROCK LIKE A FUCKING THING THAT FUCKING ROCKS ALL DAY. and you're also completely insane. :)
momomom - Etoile was my Secret Santa. The gift was delivered Ring-The-Doorbell-And Run style. I've known Etoile ever since she was a little girl. Which means the hand crocheted hat, yummy cookies, fun oval shaped playing cards and a plan to go kayaking when it warms up here were super meaningful to me.

/me misses Hermetic

Homenode, Part V - The Pre-Formatted Items

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(Lists generated Tue Feb 24 20:00:19 2004 GMT, as of INFOCON writeup, by the Homenode List Generator. Goodness is the percentage of votes that are upvotes.)

5 Most Voted-Upon Writeups
3C! /me misses Hermetic 1
10C! dildo 2
2C! How to make breasts give milk 3
4C! Audrey Hepburn 4
2C! LeVar Burton 5

5 Least Voted-Upon Writeups
1 (tied) SILC
1 (tied) Archives-Navy Memorial
1 (tied) Eisenhower Avenue
1 (tied) Deanwood
1 (tied) Benning Road
...and several others

5 Highest Goodness Writeups
2C! LeVar Burton (tied) 1
10C! Deafness on Martha's Vineyard (tied) 1
2C! Charles Taylor (tied) 1
1C! L'Académie française (tied) 1
1C! Anne Heche (tied) 1
and several others...

5 Lowest Goodness Writeups
1 (tied) Takoma
1 (tied) Landover
3 THPS Cheat Codes
4 Seductress
5 (tied) Girl, Interrupted
...and several others

5 Most Reputable Writeups
10C! dildo 1
3C! /me misses Hermetic 2
2C! How to make breasts give milk 3
4C! Audrey Hepburn 4
2C! LeVar Burton 5

5 Least Reputable Writeups
1 Takoma
2 (tied) Seductress
2 (tied) THPS Cheat Codes
2 (tied) Landover
5 (tied) Girl, Interrupted
...and several others