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| User: | cassiel240 (13478011)
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| Name: | Annichka |
| Location: | Oregon, United States |
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| cassiel240 | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | Writing for an audience has an appreciable, positive effect on the quality of my writing, which is the main motivation for starting this journal. Yes, it's a selfish endeavor. Additionally, however, a few people have complained that I stopped blogging at MySpace, because those entries provided newscasts of the events occurring in several lives connected with mine. Somewhere in my self-absorbed, expressivist-driven babbles someone might find something of interest. This is a shout out, random writing about a random life, in an attempt to make connections.
About me: I'm a student of English literature earning my master's degree. You probably won't be able to tell this from my writing, unless from the pedantic obsession with correct grammar. Hi, my name is Annichka, and I'm a pedant. Some of you may have noticed that I changed my LiveJournal name - it used to be Cassielle and now is Annichka. I'm sort of starting a new life, I guess. Cassielle was a feminized version of the name "Cassiel," who is the hero of Wim Wender's film "Faraway, So Close." It remains one of my favorite flicks, and I have always identified with Cassiel's desire to be part of the human world and immense bewilderment on finally joining it. Cassiel's bewilderment, like mine, led him to make a total disaster of his life, and yet he finds redemption. I hope to follow a similar path. The fact that I seem to have found at least the trailhead has led me to change my name. The trailhead is my catechumenate in the Eastern Orthodox Church. My Christian name is Anna, after the mother of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary - "Theotokos" means God-bearer), who waited patiently for most of her life to find redemption in the birth of her daughter (after life-long, humiliating barrenness). My journal should make evident all the ways in which she is an appropriate patron for me! My spiritual father chuckled when he suggested, saying, "Anna - Annichka," because he has always tried to call me Anna or Annie (though I introduce myself as Anne, which is my given name). So, in a nutshell, that's what is behind the name change.
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| Pictures: | over 20 public |
| Interests: | 23: bikes, books, camping, carfree living, cats, chemeketa community college, clackamas community college, cycling, dogs, drawing, eastern orthodoxy, family, gardening, hiking, literature, orthodox christianity, painting, pancreatic cancer, portland state university, running, veterinary, western oregon university, writing |
| Schools: | None listed |
| Friends: |  | 7: | akhenaten007, cassiel240, kikidee21, kl_guddat, luzclarita, narnie83, ocmc |  | 7: | gradstudents, lj_maintenance, lj_spotlight, news, orthodoxifying, orthodoxy, thenicestthings |
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| Mutual Friends: | 7: akhenaten007, cassiel240, kikidee21, kl_guddat, luzclarita, narnie83, ocmc |
| Member of: | 4: gradstudents, orthodoxifying, orthodoxy, thenicestthings |
| Account type: | Plus Account |
