Christine W.
Nicknames: Christiney-wieny, Space Lady, Chaos, Little Kate, Sweetie Pie
City/State: Chicawgo, Illinoise
Occupation: Photo archivist.
Birthday: 7-5-1976, born after the Fourth of July.
Single or taken: Married 7 years.
Other Scooter/Misc. Affiliations: Heck’s Angel’s Scooter Club, Chicago Area Archivists.
Make/model/description of scooter(s): 2003 cobalt blue Vespa ET4. I love that thing.
Hey baby, what’s your sign? Cancer. Yes, I’m Cancer the Crab. Probably a pretty accurate description of what I’m like to live with: I spread everywhere and I’m angry all the time.
Any tattoos? I count five. Well, four and ¾ because one’s not finished. Yet.
Favorite Holiday: Thanksgiving and funerals. Al your family in one place doing one thing only–eating.
Favorite Alcoholic Drink: Sprite with Grenadine syrup.
Favorite Non-Alcoholic Drink: Hi-C Lava Burst with a big straw and the right ice from McDonald’s.
Favorite Joke: What do a walrus and a Ziploc baggie have in common?
Favorite Bands: T Rex, Shocking Blue, Le Tigre, Abba, Pixies, Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.
What’s the last CD you bought? Matthew buys them for me, and it was T Rex.
What are your guilty pleasures? All of them are guilty. Dessert, couch time, bedtime, things that involve eating refined sugars and simple carbohydrates and lounging.
Why’d you get into scooters? I worked in a crowded area and I wanted a moped I could park on the sidewalk.
Any other vehicles? ’95 Honda Accord, bike called “Bluie,” bike called “Pinkie.”
What’s in your glove box? Insurance card, rain gear, tool kit, zip ties, bungee cords, water bottle, used paper towels from drying off my seat.
What are you up to these days? Writing recreationally
Ever been arrested? I don’t think so, but I probably should have been. Why? No reason (looks up at ceiling, whistles, shuffles feet).
If you were stranded on a desert island, what 4 items would you bring with you? The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, William Faulkner’s collected short stories, Ulysees by James Joyce, Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon—things I can read over and over and learn something new every time.
What’s one of the craziest things you have ever done? I cry in public a lot. I know that’s not the kind of crazy this question means, but it really is crazy. Grocery stores, restaurants, movie theater lobbies (before the movie)… The list goes on, really.
The stupidest? I think everything I do is stupid.
My favorite links: My blog, http://www.christine-wy.blogspot.com/ ; Myspace, http://www.myspace.com/christine_wy ; Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/christine-wy/ ; Chicago Public Library, http://www.chipublib.org/
