You're Just Jealous
Adventures in Art School, Finally
Lori Covington
- Location
- Oakland, California, USA
- Birthday
- December 31
- Bio
- Two wandering southerners --a neurotic Texan bearing a keen resemblance to Vivien Leigh and a close-mouthed Mississippi sailor with a thing for long-legged beauties, stole me from a red-headed alien who, having laid me on my woven baby blanket under a palm tree at the Alameda Naval Station, was splashing in the cool, funky waters of San Francisco Bay with a seal lion named Frank. Assuring themselves that "it was for the best", the southerners transported me first to San Diego, where a goat ate my stroller, to Florida, where I attempted to eat a frog...
In reverse chronology...
June 2010: Published Escape from Draconia: Mikki Madigan's First Adventure!
Visited Annapolis, MD and Hawaii. Developed crab allergy.
Voted by mail for our intelligent, ethical, new president! (No allergies noted)
Moved to Nova Scotia. Developed allergy to lobster.
2004: Fled insane, ultraconservative country for relative sanity of Canada.
1999: Met Mike, who is wonderful.
91-98 Graduate school (home of Geotrolls and other Mean People) in Illnois
Moved incessantly until settling in northern California. Ate a lot of Dungeness crab and drank excellent but very cheap white wine.
Left Home
Returned home
Left home
Sibling rivalry, constant relocation. Nickname, "The New Kid".
Born
MY RECENT POSTS
- Don't be jealous
May 17, 2013 10:03AM - Bracelet of paper, bronze
wire, metallic thread
May 17, 2013 09:57AM - Winterbourne
April 28, 2013 07:09AM - Back on Salon, from Adventures
in Art School
April 26, 2013 01:44PM - Read "Beating Poverty" at San
Francisco Homeless Resource
February 28, 2012 05:57PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I've always distrusted
the way some people combine
bits and
pieces of one
religio…”
April 15, 2012 11:13AM - “Call centers suck. They
treat their employees like
crap and
because they are
Big…”
March 21, 2012 09:30AM - “That's a great story and
you told it beautifully. I
knew you
were a fine
artist:…”
February 22, 2012 06:05PM - “Maybe the thing we can
all do is help our friends and
family
members whenever
we…”
February 22, 2012 05:42PM - “My solution was to
drastically slow my typing
rate, which
took years. I've
had th…”
August 10, 2011 09:47AM
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