User:Parcequilfaut
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[edit] About Me
I'm a mid-twenties novelist living in Nashville, Tennessee. I keep various badly-compensated close-to-minimum-wage jobs to ensure that I have health care and enough free time to cultivate the spiritual life, read everything I can get my hands on, and work for myself on the side.
[edit] I Dare to Edit Wikipedia Because...
...I love the entire concept of Wikipedia. I do have a degree in English (even if it is from a community college). I tutored writing mechanics for several years and am the sort of person who has to resist the urge to copyedit typed notices on grocery store bulletin boards. I read incessantly and have a particular talent for synopsizing plot information. I also like to hector my friends into helping me fill up underpopulated categories.
[edit] Biographical Type Things
- I graduated from the Harpeth Hall School with a 3.7 GPA and subsequently failed to attend a top-rated university or college. I got my associate's degree instead, from Volunteer State Community College. Within the next 2 years I hope to complete my bachelor's degree at Tennessee State University if my health permits. I am also pursuing a paralegal certification.
- I have written one novel which is still in the early editing stage. I have published one poem in a literary magazine. I have been invited to edit an upcoming non-fiction book on the life of Jorge Morel, which is not bad for someone without a four-year degree.
- I tutor the ACT and SAT as well as several high-school subjects.
- I am not and have never been married. I have no children. I do have 2.5 cats.
- I have been arrested but never convicted.
- I own over 1000 books including the complete published works of Robert A. Heinlein.
- I sew and quilt by hand, as well as crochet; I also like to make collages on three-dimensional objects.
- I have eight piercings, and seven tattoos including a rendition of Ingres' La grande odalisque, Tim Burton's Oyster Boy, a version of the child-Ganesha, combining his aspects as Ucchista and Ekadanta, a Discordian Mandala and an unfinished Sri Chakram constructed entirely out of verses from the Devi Mahatmya in the original Sanskrit. I am aware that these body modifications make my mother very upset but there is no scheduled cessation of self-modification in the future.
- I am a two-gallon donor for the American Red Cross; my blood type is A positive and I do a phaeresis donation of platelets and plasma in addition to whole blood donation. By the end of 2007 I hope to have finished my third gallon.
- I am not a member of any organized religion. I was raised in the Church of Christ. However, along the way, I have managed to become a Dao relative, an Erisian pope, and a Reverend Mother. I was dubbed a "God of obscure nifty shit" at the last ADF circle I attended, and am still awaiting my mythic pantheon and/or free breakfast at IHOP. I am also a tarot reader and student of Mahakaliyoga, as well as a Guedra instructor. I am the children's activities coordinator for Pagan Unity Festival.
[edit] Wikipedia Contributions
I started out populating the Disgusting fictional characters category, which may be deleted soon. I rewrote almost from scratch the article on Heinlein's Have Space Suit—Will Travel.
[edit] The Term "Parcequilfaut"
Parcequilfaut (par-SAY-kwuh-eel-fote) is the run-together, hardly-grammatical user ID version of the French phrase "parce qu'il faut", an idiomatic construction which has no literal English translation. "Parce que" translates to "because", while "il faut" is the idiom added to verb constructions to give the form of the imperative created in English by the word "must". The phrase is intended to convey "because I must" or "because it is neccessary". This construction comes from the collected works of my brother, who used to use "parce qu'il faut" (as well as "mais il faut") without benefit of a following verb, in order to win arguments conducted in English about what we were doing, going to do, or planning on doing.
Some critics persist in calling me "Parce" (pron. par-SAY or "parse"), which I have gotten used to, but do not really like. I keep using it as my username because, to my knowledge, I am the only Parcequilfaut running around the Internets, and Google seems to back me up on this.
