Story of My Life
Once upon a time, namely 9 a.m. on Monday, 1 October 1984, I was born. I grew up in Kansas, though my home was not on the range. It was on Ohio Street and later Wagon Wheel Road, whose rugged name should not fool you. The only buffalo I ever saw were in the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas. My early life was comfortably middle-class, which I never minded until high school, when I learned what bourgeois meant. Then I became a frustrated bohemian who read Oscar Wilde and listened to the Rent album for hours each week. Eventually I broke out: B.A. in Classics at Columbia University (NY) and an M.A. in Classical Studies at the University of Missouri. Now I live in Jersey City, officially within the New York Metro Area and unofficially the sixth borough of NYC. That makes me a cross between a Jersey Boy and a New Yorker. A New Jerker? Except that I'm reflexively polite. Thanks, Mom!
My professional life is a patchwork quilt in the making. I mostly freelance as a writer/editor and tutor for Kaplan. I've also taught English as a foreign language in Morocco and interned in the New Business Department of an advertising agency. One summer I was paid to (among other things) play the title role of "Young Goodman Brown" for an enactment in the woods of Amherst, Massachusetts.
My personal life is even more eclectic. The question is, how much do I share here? The answer: I dance sporadically (ballet, bhangra, breakdancing, tango) and am slowly working my way through The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th ed. I also follow @chelseymroos on Twitter, and anyone who likes to laugh should too.
My professional life is a patchwork quilt in the making. I mostly freelance as a writer/editor and tutor for Kaplan. I've also taught English as a foreign language in Morocco and interned in the New Business Department of an advertising agency. One summer I was paid to (among other things) play the title role of "Young Goodman Brown" for an enactment in the woods of Amherst, Massachusetts.
My personal life is even more eclectic. The question is, how much do I share here? The answer: I dance sporadically (ballet, bhangra, breakdancing, tango) and am slowly working my way through The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th ed. I also follow @chelseymroos on Twitter, and anyone who likes to laugh should too.
June 2011
