Getting to Know You

I'm a fan of the American Musical, of Rodgers & Hammerstein specifically, and Oklahoma!, Guys and Dolls, and My Fair Lady especially
(and in that order).

I'm an oboist in a woodwind trio who wishes
(since I'm not a jazz singer like one of my best friends--my favorite jazz singer since Ella) that there were such a thing as jazz oboe. (Except of course, that a jazz oboe wouldn't be able to sing, and what I love most are lyrics.)


I'm a poet of sorts, though a one trick pony at best. I'm working on revising a potential chapbook. (Someday, perhaps, I'll be published, and someday, perhaps, I'll work on an MFA.)

I love math, especially calculus. (According to my best friend, tutoring math can lift me out of the foulest of moods.)

I'm a science fiction and fantasy fan: books and tv. I grew up on STNG and have never gone back. I wrote an honors thesis for philosophy entitled "The Will to Feel: Science Fiction's Vital Function." (note, I will not provide a link to that)*

I'm devoted to my group of friends who are the sweetest boys ever.**

I love playing board games and card games and computer games. (Did I mention I like games?)

I like a range of music from Bizet's Carmen to Rosemary Clooney to BNL and the Avett Brothers.

I wish I knew how to tap dance.

I'm the oldest of 4 daughters and of 12 grandchildren

(11 are girls, and the majority blonde and blue-eyed like me.)

If I could have anything in the world,
I'd lock all my Chambers family up with me in a gated community
and never let any of them leave.
(Above all else, they are my life)

*Also, by the way, I like (surprise, surprise) to read alot ;)
I heart Jane Austen (who I wrote my Honors English Thesis about) and J.R.R. Tolkien best of all.

**If you asked my friends, they'd probably say that what I love best of all is either secrets or hugs, but what do they know?