Who is this Amanda person?

Currently hooked to cheap chearp Merlot and Southern Comfort thanks to the stresses associated first-time-home ownership, I am a lover of cats, tasteless movies, industrial music, classic rock, infomercials, cleaning products I will never use, and Conan O'Brien. On occasion, I leave my apartment house (that's right, I did the adult thing and bought a house!) to go people watching; but for the most I like to stay home and read.
Though born and raised in the mid-western Purgatorio, known more commonly as Cincinnati, Ohio, I have been around the block, really. I've lived in Peterborough (in England, folks), Germany, Italy, and (yes, this doesn't seem to fit the Euro-theme) Modesto.
I am a jack-of-all trades, master o' none (I often find myself abbreviating "of" with "'o"). I made it through a full year of engineering college, but I managed to earn a BA in Engish and an MEd in Education and English. I slso have an MA in English, which has proven pretty useless in the Real World. And, I like to read Tom Robbins.
Academic and personal ventures aside, I used to be an adjunct instructor at a local university. I taught English. English Composition -- that dreaded Freshman requirement loathed by the hoards of vet-tech and nursing majors I used to meet every year -- to be exact. I'm funny, by some people's standards, and since my prior profession and education took me nowhere, I'll probably sell my soul to the Writers' Guild and write for NBC (see: Conan). Afterall, with me being a redhead and all, I could share some sort of comraderie with the late night giant. We could reminisce about sunburns and bullies past and share our concerns about the marginalization of copper tops in society.
For those of you concerned about my financial and emotional well-being, as both were things harshly tested by my experiences with sub-par students and administrative folk at the so-called institution of higher learning where I, according to my mother, "payed my dues," I am happy to announce that, since updating this page last, I left my position as an Academic Slave (aka Adjunct Instructor), took a Latin seminar (the Erotic Elegy of Catullus and Propertius), earned my MA in English Literature, and got a new job that pays the bills, well sort of. I still do a lot of contract and freelance work. So, not really.
Another thing: I'm constantly looking for new work.
And Pyrrha is…?
Pyrrha, for those who aren't up to par on their Greek mythology and/or Latin lyric poetry, is the name bestowed to two very important women, one who helped repopulate the world after devastation via flood and another who helped educate adolescent boys in the ways of sex. For all intents and puposes, the "Pyrrha" of Pyrrha.org is the latter: the prostitute, chastised by Horace for leading young, gullible boys far into the fickle seas of love, only to let them to drown in broken promises, their hearts heavy and broken as they learn dirty truths about the inconstant nature of women, and life in general -- truths that must be learned during a key rite of passage (yes, ladies and gentlemen: a boy's first visit to the brothel).
<disclaimer>This explanation, however, is not meant to confuse you. You will find no whores here. Some shamelss promotion, and perhaps some requests for money when I find myself in a financial bind. But no exchange of sexual favors. Not even a careless boob shot.</disclaimer>
With that said…
Pyrrha.org was purchased in 2000, I think. After years of shuffling websites from free servers to university servers and back to free servers and friends' servers, I gave in and bought hosting. Sure, that makes me uncool -- the fact that I don't have some uber geeky friend to store my shit or, even better, my own server and bandwidth to suck my money dry -- but I'm okay with that. I send in a payment once a year, and I don't think about it. Below are links to websites located at pyrrha.org. Visit them or not. Your choice.
[pyrrha.org/digitalgurl/]
At this website, I present several Photoshop-altered photographs and images, originally taken/drawn back in during my undergraduate years. Having liked the products of my Photoshop tinkering, I decided to build a home for my images. Oh, there's some nakedness here, but nothing overtly sexy or offensive or whatever.
[pyrrha.org/drowning/]
Just about every idiot on the web flaunts his or her desktop wallpapers. So, of course, I have to also. Most images are the result of boredom and random photoshop tinkering. Unfortunately, due to some hotlinking Livejournal and Xanga kiddies, I've had to password protect my Angelina Jolie wallpapers. If you like the thumbnail, and want the real deal, just let me know. I have no problem with people who don't steal bandwidth.
[pyrrha.org/elegends/]
"Electronic Legends" is a collection of nonsense. I've had an web address for over twelve years now, and, as a result, I've been the recipient of a lot of e-mail, much of which is categorizes as "junk:" spam, hoaxes, fowards, lists, strange photshop-doctored photos and stories. I started compiling this crap when I started graduate school as a non-cerebral activity to keep me amused and semi-sane. It is continually being updated.
[pyrrha.org/pulp/]
So, which Pulp Fiction Character are You? This particular website gets a schload of hits daily. In fact, if you go to Yahoo! and search for Pulp Fiction, my quiz, you will find, comes in second after God Among Directors, which features Quentin Tarantino.
 
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