A special treat for those of you who actually care about the person behind the page (namely, me) enough to read this little about page: the option to be added to the updates mailing list. It's not a weekly event any more, since I don't usually update that often anymore. But you'll receive email whenever I make more than a minor change (like I won't bother when I fix a spelling error) or add something completely new. Just put your name and email address in the appropriate boxes and hit the "add" button and you'll be automatically added to the list.
I found a new script that'll remove you when you ask it to, too, so I don't have to be bothered by people asking me to remove them anymore! Yay! :) If you find yourself added to that thing, there's a link at the bottom of each email that tells you how to get off it. *grin*
For those of you who haven't figured it out yet, my name is Sierra and this is my web page. I'm 21 years old, a polyamorous bisexual pagan goth chick, and am interested in a little bit of everything from music to dance to art to poetry to computers to movies and then some. I've been using computers since I was three and I've been a musician since I was six. I didn't have much of a childhood, and spent most of it trying to grow up, but now that I'm an adult (at least in age if not attitude) I'm trying to be a kid again.
I don't subscribe to organized religion. Even many of the pagan religions are more than I want to deal with. I suppose I'm just too much of an individual to want to follow anyone's teachings. I prefer to be self-educated. I taught myself web design, I taught myself graphic design, I taught myself perl. Now I'm teaching myself manifestations of religious beliefs based on what fits my personal beliefs and what doesn't. I'm definitely pagan, and I suppose you could consider me Wiccan though if I am, I'm extremely eclectic and definitely solitary. Even a coven seems too organized for me, if I could ever manage to find one that fit me. So I prefer to think of myself as a nondenominational pagan. Kind of like a nondenominational Christian except with a different set of beliefs. But don't bother asking me what they are, exactly, because none of them are translated from "Sierra thought" to English right now. I can tell you whether I believe something but I can't go down a list of what I do and don't believe.
I used to write a lot of poetry but that's something that is a lot more rare these days. Most of my poetry is dark & depressing and the stuff that isn't usually sounds forced. This may make me appear to be a depressed and moody individual at first glance, but when you consider that I really haven't written a lot of poetry in the past couple of years, that perspective tends to change a bit. :) My dad once asked me, "Why don't you write more happy poetry?" I guess he doesn't understand that if you're happy, you don't need to vent.
I don't have many friends in real life, but I have several online. If you get the chance, go visit Colbiras or Red Mary. Tyson and Rachel are also really cool people. Jon is my ex but we still are good friends. I have other friends, but if any of them has a web page, it's eluded me and they should really write and tell me what the address is. :)
I'm a big fan of body art. I have two tattoos and a navel ring currently, as well as more earrings than the average bear. One tat is a small purple rose on my belly, the other is a red rose/barbed wire armband. I do plan on getting more tattoos, though probably won't get any more piercings besides my left ear which I plan to eventually pierce all the way up. Yes, it will be painful, but dammit, it's worth it. :) Just about any tat or piercing enhances someone's sexiness factor in my mind.
Online you can occasionally find me on ICQ, IRC, or in my own web-based chat room, though usually it's easiest to catch me in Email. If you have a question about something (like one of my scripts), don't add me to your ICQ list to ask me. I won't authorize the request, because such things are best left to email. If you catch me on ICQ, you damn well better have something more important to say than "hi" or else I won't reply. And I will not authorize you to add me to my contact list unless we've already been talking for a while, so don't bother trying. Email me with whatever the hell you want or post whatever you want in the forum, and chances are I will reply. But I just get too many ICQ requests from people I don't know to reply to everyone who wants to say hi to me.
My latest project is the webmaster duties at Sex In Public. It's a publication Keely does bi-monthly (or whenever she has the time) for poetry in the Sacramento area. She had started a page on her own but jumped at the opportunity when I offered her web space, a domain, and my skills as webmaster. :)
I occasionally take a minor interest in astrology. I am a Taurus Sun, Saggitarius Moon, and Libra Rising. What this means I have no idea. :) However I recently had my chart done online (determining the actual chart is entirely mathematical so yes this is possible) and received the following interpretation:
Section 1: How You Approach Life and How You Appear To Others
You are a natural diplomat, reasonable, tolerant, fair, always willing to listen to varying viewpoints, and ready to see the other side of an issue. Even if you strongly disagree with someone, you will try to find points of similarity and agreement rather than emphasizing the differences. You often avoid taking an extreme or one-sided stance on anything. You have a strong desire for harmonious and pleasant relationships, and express a spirit of cooperation, compromise, friendship, and fairness. You very much want to be liked and because of your need for approval and acceptance, you are easily influenced by others' opinions, especially when young. You so much want to please that often you will suppress your own intense or unpleasant feelings in order not to offend others. Sometimes your politeness is interpreted as phoniness or wishy-washiness.
Your need to create harmony extends to your physical environment and personal appearance as well. You appreciate beauty and have a natural sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion. You do everything in good taste, with a sense of style and art. From your home furnishings to your choice of clothing, everything must be aesthetically appealing, not simply functional or utilitarian.
You also feel that relationships are an art, one that especially interests you and one that you are usually quite skilled at, for you possess tact and acute awareness of other people. Marriage is very significant to you and finding the right person to share your life with is extremely important. Being part of a close couple seems natural to you - you are not an independent loner. Having a partner increases your self-confidence. You do have a tendency, however, to become overly dependent on your partner and perhaps not to develop a clearly defined identity outside of the relationship. Finding the balance between being yourself and blending and uniting with another is a challenge for you.
Others see you as an agreeable, smooth, harmonious, and "nice" person. Though there may be much more to you, this is the sort of face you show to the world. You possess personal charm and an understated, noncombative manner. Your motto could be "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" for you usually take a friendly, cooperative approach rather than a strong, forceful, I'm-going-to-conquer-the-world attitude.
Section 2: The Inner You: Your Real Motivation
You are a steadfast and patient soul, capable of tremendous devotion, dedication, endurance, and constancy. The ability to follow through and stick with things is one of your greatest assets. Once your course is set, you pursue it tenaciously until it is completed, stubbornly resisting any attempts to sway you from your purpose.
You have a very practical nature and want to see concrete, tangible results for your efforts, and you are not one for spinning wild dreams that are unlikely to come into fruition. Most of your "wild dreams" have to do with material achievements, well-being, and security, for you have a great love of the physical world and you want to experience and enjoy it to the full. Though you will work long and persistently, you also have a strong sensual and comfort-loving side, and you want to enjoy what you have worked for. In fact, you can be enormously lazy at times and have a tendency to overindulge in good food and other earthly pleasures. You also love the beauty of the natural world and probably prefer a serene country setting rather than an urban life style.
At heart your needs are simple and you are easy to please. You have a strong desire for security, stability, and peace, and will rarely make changes unless you are forced to do so. You are not very demanding emotionally, though you do crave lots of physical closeness and affection. Because of your faithfulness, emotional steadiness, and gentle strength, others often depend upon you for support. Though you hate upheaval and sudden changes, you usually maintain your poise and equanimity. You also have an innate sense of harmonizing with nature, allowing things to grow and unfold in their own time, and the patience to nurture something into being - be it a garden, a child, or some creative project. You make an excellent mother or father, especially if you follow your instincts more often than "the experts".
You have three major faults: one is your bull-headed obstinacy. The second is your unwillingness to deviate from your safe, predictable routine. And the third is your tendency to always insist upon realism and undervalue the imaginative, speculative, and fanciful - in other words, you lack the ability to play with ideas and possibilities, to open your mind to the new.
Normally I don't take any sort of stock in this type of thing, but in this case I'll make an exception, since this is probably the most accurate description I have of myself to date. :)
Actually I take that back. This is probably the most accurate description of me, though it's not as complete. Of course, you would expect it to be more accurate since it was based on my answers to some questions rather than where the stars were when I was born. Even though only about 1 percent of the population has the same personality profile (out of 16 possibilities), I tend to gravitate toward others who fit in that one percent.
If there's more you want to know about me, ask me in email or in my Forum and I'll probably answer.
Listen to your heart,
