about me.
This strange little life...
I am just a simple girl from Queens, New York who grew up on a steady diet of PBS educational programming, Three's Company, films by John Hughes and 80's bands with names like Toto. Don't hate. Let's just say, I am a pop culture geek. Yes, I can tell the names of the original Charlie's Angels and yep, I do know the names of the members of New Edition. It is love of pop culture that drove me to attend New York University and ultimately earned me a degree in cinema studies. I paid thousands of dollars a year to watch movies and write long, lengthy papers on socio-cultural implications of the tracking shot in cinema of the French New Wave. My mother is so proud.
After college, I found not many people like to pay six-figure salaries to young, snarky women who have a degree in cinema studies so I instead fell back on my other passion, web developing. I have been in the new media industry for ten years. I've seen the highs, the lows and the really lows. Along the way, I've done a bit of traveling and had more than a few memorable experiences.
When not fiddling with photoshop, debating the cultural validity of the soap opera and snarking on message boards, I enjoying playing the guitar, reading trashy fiction, watching films and writing long, boring descriptions about myself. On occasion, I have been known to attend concerts, take long walks and enjoy a nice foot massage.
I started this site simply because I have absolutely nothing to say, but I feel the need to share that with everyone in the universe.
New York City is home. It is my city. It flows through my veins and is every single fiber of my being. I am a New Yorker. No amount of explaining, diagrams or even a powerpoint presentation could ever truly capture how much my city has informed how I think, what I feel and who I am.
Why runnerbird?
Why not? In the summer of 1998, while under the delusion that movies were glamourous, I was an intern for a film production company in New York and for some odd reason, I became a production runner. Running papers, documents and other things between production offices. The term 'bird' is sometimes used in the UK to refer to a girl, usually an odd girl. I am also an avid jogger. I would never call what I do out in nature "running". Even jogging is a stretch. I think I saw a lady with a walker pass me once. Plus, "joggerbird" just didn't have the same ring to it.
