Bioscoop

There isn't that much to tell, really.

My name is Andrea, and this is a journal I keep... mostly for myself and for family and friends, but anyone is welcome to eavesdrop. :)

I was born in Toronto, grew up in nearby suburban Bramalea and attended Dorset Drive PS, William G. Davis middle school and then high school at J.A. Turner SS.

I studied Journalism and English lit at Carleton University in Ottawa. I am now married and have two daughters. We live in a little house with a big garden.

I work as a web developer at a marketing and graphic design firm. I am a stay-at-home mom (I really don't like that term, but there it is), and do freelance web work and some writing on the side.

I sometimes think I'm approaching a pre mid-life crisis, and find myself wondering about who I am. What defines us? Perhaps that's the reason behind this bio page... a need to see it written down.

Our identities are made up of much more than places and dates. We are made up of a million little stories, a personal collection of experiences that combine to alter us and ultimately make up this thing we call life.

Here is a selection of things I have done (in no particular order). Each is worth relating in greater detail, but I'll save that for some other time...

• traveled to Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic
• skied down an Olympic run and not killed myself
• traveled to the far north and snowmobiled on frozen tundra
• hitchhiked
• lied about my age and identity
• gone dancing until the wee hours of the morning
• not worn a coat in the winter because it was "uncool"
• drank so much I threw up
• written bad poetry
• written good letters
• swam across a lake
• owned a dog, cats and birds
• co-produced an award-winning documentary film
• touched a human skull
• tried to make my own beer, and failed
• walked barefoot in a fountain
• burnt my hair
• sang in public at the top of my lungs
• went skinny dipping while smoking a cigar
• visited real castles
• wrote a weekly newspaper column
• developed my own film and printed my own photographs
• ran away from the police
• failed grade twelve math
• tried to cut my own hair
• seen a black bear in its natural habitat
• gone horseback riding
• walked on a glacier
• tried to contact the dead
• had my heart crushed by a significant other
• pretended to not understand English
• had my palm read
• married someone I met over the Internet
• held a firefly in my hands
• made stars out of pretty paper

It's all too short, isn't it? Life is so great. I wish I believed in reincarnation. Let's try to make the most of what we have, shall we?