dulcimerdancer

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Last Login: 02/27/2009 1:22 pm

Registered: 07/06/2007

Gender: Female

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Birthday: 07/20/1986

Occupation: Student (Normandale Community College) and Freelance Musician (Hammered Dulcimer and 12-String Guita

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Who I Am

My name's Jessamine, though most people call me Jem.

I'm currently attending Normandale Community College for their Integrative Wellness program; Integrative Wellness is basically a combination of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) like Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan, Herbalism, Homeopathy, Chiropractics, Massage, Naturopathy, and Nutrition. I'm really excited about the program and learning how to be a better healer. Healing people and animals with energy medicine (Qigong and Reiki) and herbal/naturopathic medicine is one of my biggest passions-- if I can help someone be in less pain or heal from their injuries or diseases, I will.

My other big passion is music; I've been playing the Hammered Dulcimer since I was 11, and the 12-String Guitar since I was 13. I write a lot of my own songs and perform them at local venues, or while I'm busking (playing music for money) on the streets. I write a fair amount of poetry, too, often with a style of spoken word I picked up while I was living in San Francisco.

Speaking of which, even though I'm currently living in Minnesota, California is my home state; I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, but my parents moved write away to Millbrae, California, where I spent only enough time to fall in love with it before we came to THIS wintry place! I've been back several times, of course-- the longest was for about half a year, when I lived on the streets in San Fran, busking every day for enough money to get food and cigarettes and generally having a ******** awesome time.

I'm Transgendered and identify and as a Lesbian; basically what that means is I was born physiologically male and mentally female, meaning though I had-- um-- guy parts, I always felt I was a girl. I started transitioning to be a girl when I was 17, back in December of 2004. I'm happy to say that after hormone therapy, a new wardrobe, and a long time spent finding out who I really was, I'm happily settled in the female gender and pass (be perceived as biologically female) extremely well. I'm much, Much, MUCH more attracted to women than men (something like 97%/3%), so I identify as a lesbian. I drift between femme and punkish dyke, but I'm never ultra-femmy or butch.

I've recently picked up skateboarding, and though I'm not all that great at it, I have a hell of a lot of fun on my board (which has a nude woman on it, no less! ^^)

Thanks about it for me.
E-mail me (jem@nbtsc.org) or message me on AIM (dulcimerdancer) if you want to chat. I'm pretty easygoing and talkative. And hey, if you're between 18 and 26, female, lesbian or bisexual and want to chat... All the better. wink I hold no illusions as to the validity or success of online dating (or of Gaia to be a good site to date people on, either), but it's fun to flirt with someone you wouldn't mind flirting with in person.

Peace,
~Jem

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Heya. This is just a general blog, which I'm not sure I'll use much, seeing as I already have a livejournal and I'm rather new to Gaia. Though if I dig Gaia, and enjoy being on here, I'll probably use my journal here quite a bit.

 

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kidofburden Report | 07/20/2008 8:38 am
kidofburden
Happy birthday!!! I tried sending you a gift, but the gift sending option is disabled, sorry
kidofburden Report | 11/28/2007 9:28 am
kidofburden
HEY, I WROTE YOUR NAME ON A PIECE OF PAPER BUT I ACCIDENTALLY THREW IT AWAY. I WROTE YOUR NAME ON MY HAND, BUT IT WASHED AWAY. I WROTE YOUR NAME IN THE SAND, BUT THE WAVES WHISPERED IT AWAY. I WROTE YOUR NAME IN MY HEART, AND FOREVER IT WILL STAY. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE U LOVE (as a friend or more) INCLUDING ME. IF U SEND THIS TO 10 PEOPLE IN THE NEXT 45 MINUTES, THEN TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY EVER!!! Today is love your friends day. Send this to all your friends and me if I am one. If you get 7 back then you are loved.
kidofburden Report | 08/16/2007 8:00 pm
kidofburden
Yeah!!! *junps up and down in new boots* ThankYouThank YouThankYouThankYouThankYou!
kidofburden Report | 08/06/2007 7:41 pm
kidofburden
HIIIIIII SEXY! ^o^
alese_scully Report | 08/03/2007 10:06 pm
alese_scully
OOOH! you like suzanne vega, poe and fiona apple! SWEET deal!
molu Report | 07/18/2007 4:33 pm
molu
bite!!

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q_bal_76 Report | 07/15/2007 2:16 am
q_bal_76
Wow, that is THE MOST impressive Interest list I think I've ever seen User Image

Something tells me you've been adding to it ever since you joined User Image

Well, hey, Welcome, and I'll see you around. User Image
bersekrise Report | 07/15/2007 2:01 am
bersekrise
welcomee!! =DD
Badgerkin Report | 07/08/2007 10:29 am
Badgerkin
Hey there - Welcome to Gaia! User Image

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There was an exodus of birds from the trees,
'Cause they didn't know that we were only pretending.
And the people all looked up, and looked pleased;
And the birds flew around like the whole world was ending.
-Ani DiFranco "Independence Day"

When they found your body
Giant Xs on your eyes
And with your half of the ransom
I bought some sweet sunflowers
And gave them to the night
-Low "Sunflower"

Suicides have a special language
Like carpenters, they want to know what tools
They never ask "why build?"
-Anne Sexton "Wanting To Die"



You look so fine
I want to take your heart and give you mine
You're taking me over
It's so insane
You've got me tethered and chained
I hear your name
And I'm falling over
-Garbage "You Look So Fine"

<---My Deck!

Hey, HEY! Don't pay no mind,
You're under 18-- you won't be doin' any time!
Hey HEY hey, come out and PLAY!
-The Offspring "Come Out And Play"

Why do you try to hold on to what you'll never get a hold on?
You wouldn't try to put the ocean in a paper cup.
-Ani DiFranco

We can order the same shitty coffee that we did last night
And hope some cute punk-a** chick will come over and ask us for a light
But maybe that just won't do-- maybe I'm too entranced by you
I fall in love with everything you do
Tell me man, what am I supposed to do with you?

I wrote this song on the doorstep of a church
If there's a god, he's welcome to sing along
Because you know, it's a cold and lonely night
And I'm sitting here wondering what went wrong.

"Don't you want to hit bottom?" she asks thin air
And I answer her softly, "We're already there."