Hi Lisbeth - I'm your neighbor in Port Townsend, what a way to meet! Charlie Anne Petersen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisbeth Jardine" <lisjardine@msn.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 PM Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, Washington, > U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca from Victoria, > B.C. > > My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've written and > hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called The Female Creature. > It's about the 2nd, the female creature, Victor Frankenstein, on one of > the smallest and most remote of Orkney skars--some "five miles from the > mainland" Mary Shelley wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which > of Orkney's she may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact > with me; the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the > Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then fearing > that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore her apart, put > the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my addition), put the > basket into his skiff, sailed out into the North Sea, dropped the basket > overboard, and sailed away from that spot. At any rate, to write the > story of what happens after that, I've had to do a fair amount of research > on the Orkney Islands. And the Creature, at t! > he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. > > Lisbeth Jardine > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >

Indeed! I presume "Charlie Anne" is female? But it's not entirely strange. A couple of months ago I wrote to editor of Al Ahram, an online newspaper from Cairo, Egypt, thanking them for publishing an article by Adonis, a Syrian poet who's been nominated for Nobel in Literature, on what Iraq mess is about. They published my little letter on-line, and --this is the kicker-- the letter above mine was from someone from Sequim (altho' I couldn't find his name in phone book--but then, I'm unlisted as well). When I moved to P.A. two years ago, I had thought about P.T., but I hate tourists. I had a friend a few years back who lived in P.T. and had visited several times. I'm not utterly enamored of P.A., but I had thought I was going to have to end up in Aberdeen or some such, and I'm glad I didn't. Back in April, I had an article in the "Vigilance": Homosexual Cheeseburgers (not my title). Sometimes when I see all that goes on in P.T., I sort of wish I hadn't decided on P.! A., but c'est la vie. Actually, I'm starting to set my sites on Victoria, BC, as a compromise btw. Seattle, Vancouver, BC, and rather limited (intellectual resources wise) P.A. So, tell me a little about you, please. Lisbeth Jardine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Petersen" <charliep@olypen.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > Hi Lisbeth - > I'm your neighbor in Port Townsend, what a way to meet! > Charlie Anne Petersen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lisbeth Jardine" <lisjardine@msn.com> > To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:28 PM > Subject: [<orcadia>] introduce myself > > >> Hello, my name is Lisbeth Jardine. I live in Port Angeles, Washington, >> U.S.A., just 17 miles across the Strait of Juan da Fuca from Victoria, >> B.C. >> >> My interest in the Orkney Islands has to do with a novel I've written and >> hoping might be published fairly soon. It's called The Female Creature. >> It's about the 2nd, the female creature, Victor Frankenstein, on one of >> the smallest and most remote of Orkney skars--some "five miles from the >> mainland" Mary Shelley wrote (and anyone who's got a good guess of which >> of Orkney's she may have had in mind is most welcome to get in contact >> with me; the question is "did she mean the mainland of Scotland or the >> Orkney "Mainland"?)--nearly completed the female creature and then fearing >> that "future generations will think of me as a pest," tore her apart, put >> the parts into a giant Orcadian basket (that's my addition), put the >> basket into his skiff, sailed out into the North Sea, dropped the basket >> overboard, and sailed away from that spot. At any rate, to write the >> story of what happens after that, I've had to do a fair amount of research >> on the Orkney Islands. And the Creature, at t! >> he end of Frankenstein is not dead. Girl + boy = gotta meet. >> >> Lisbeth Jardine >> >> >> ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word >> 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com >> > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >

At 09:55 PM 9/11/2004, Lisbeth Jardine wrote: > A., but c'est la vie. Actually, I'm starting to set my sites on > Victoria, BC, as a compromise btw. Seattle, Vancouver, BC, and rather > limited (intellectual resources wise) P.A. I used to live in Victoria, Port Angeles, and Port Townsend :) I live in Central CA now. Denise ~ Ith Ithildin@OnDragonsWing.com Celts In Space: The List! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CeltsInSpace Music, Books, TV, History. You'll find it here.