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| User: | michaeldthomas (13806066)
Scribbling Caregiver of DOOM!!!
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| Name: | michaeldthomas |
| Website: | http://www.michaeldthomas.blogspot.com/ |
| Location: | DeKalb, Illinois, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1974-12-08 |
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| michaeldthomas | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | I am married to the hottest rare book librarian in the world (Lynne), and I am the primary caregiver for my special needs daughter, Caitlin. We live in a cute little house with our cat Marie. Caitlin has a rare congenital disorder called Aicardi Syndrome (www.aicardisyndrome.org). I work with her and coordinate the dozens of doctors, teachers, therapists, and providers who help with her care.
I am also an advocate for children with special needs. I am currently the Co-Chair of the DeKalb County Local Interagency Networking Council (LINC), and I am a member of the City of DeKalb Advisory Commission on Disabilities. LINC is an umbrella organization that brings together the providers, agencies, and parents of children with special needs in DeKalb County. The Advisory Commission works to improve the City of DeKalb for all of its citizens with disabilities. As a representative of the Commission, I am serving on a committee called Access to Recreation. This is a committee made up of many local agencies that are working to create universal accessibility in the county’s parks and forest preserves. I was on the planning committee for the 8th Biennial Aicardi Syndrome Family Conference.
I recently became a flunky for the spectacular folks at Mad Norwegian Press (http://www.madnorwegian.com/). I was an Associate Editor for the Angel guidebook Redeemed, About Time 6, and AHistory 2nd Edition (guidebooks to Doctor Who). I am currently co-writing Fluid Links, a comprehensive guidebook to Doctor Who novels and audios. I am also an aspiring SF writer working on my first novel.
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| Memories: | 1 entry |
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public |
| Interests: | 113: 10000 maniacs, agatha christie, aicardi syndrome, alan moore, andy lane, angel, anne rice, arthur conan doyle, baseball, belle and sebastian, ben aaronovitch, ben folds, big star, blackadder, blake's 7, bloom county, brian eno, buffy, camera obscura, charles bukowski, chicago cubs, citizen kane, colin dexter, conventions, cory doctorow, coupling, craig hinton, dale smith, david bowie, david eddings, disability advocacy, doctor who, dungeons and dragons, e.e. knight, elizabeth bear, elvis costello, fawlty towers, firefly, food, g.k. chesterton, gene wolfe, george r.r. martin, grant morrison, gregory mcdonald, hercules, heroes, indiana jones, issac asimov, j.r.r. tolkien, jack mcdevitt, jackie kessler, james bond, james ellroy, jim hines, john donne, jonathon carroll, kage baker, kate bush, kate orman, keats, kelly link, kelly mccullough, lance parkin, lawrence miles, lloyd rose, lois mcmaster bujold, lord of the rings, lyda morehouse, mark waid, monty python, naomi novik, neil gaiman, neko case, nick drake, north by northwest, old liz phair, patrick rothfuss, paul cornell, pulp fiction, raymond feist, red dwarf, rem, reservoir dogs, richard thompson, roxy music, sapphire & steel, sarah monette, shakespeare, squeeze, star wars, starlight mints, stephen king, steve lyons, talking heads, the avengers, the beatles, the cure, the kinks, the maltese falcon, the new pornographers, the prisoner, the third man, the velvet underground, they might be giants, tim pratt, tobias buckell, travel, ultraviolet, veronica mars, writing, xena, xtc, yeats |
| Schools: | Parkland College - Champaign, IL
Southern Connecticut State University - New Haven, CT
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana, IL
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy - Aurora, IL (1989 - 1991)
Waubonsie Valley High School - Aurora, IL (1991 - 1992)
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| Friends: |  | 77: | 1crowdedhour, agentxpndble, bifemmefatale, blackaire, chats_noirs, christapolis, cressida42, dark_aegis, dark_opus, darkshiver, davidlevine, deliasherman, dewey921, difrancis, ebear_twitter, eeknight, elizabethbear, ellen_kushner, fizzixrat, freyjawaru, frostokovich, frozendragon, grammarwoman, grrm, hecateuse, herbivorous, hughtaylor, jackiekessler, jaylake, jblum, jennreese, jennykarp, jenwrites, jimhines, jklumpp, jpsorrow, kateorman, kelly_swails, kellymccullough, kevinsom, kristine_smith, lilymunster, lyda222, madisondork, magnumtokyo, mapacha, maryrobinette, matociquala, michaeldthomas, michaellee, mirrorthaw, naomikritzer, naominovik, nnwest, paulcornell2, rambleflower, rarelylynne, resolute, rhonawestbrook, robshearman, sarah_prineas, seanmmurphy, shsilver, soullessminion, starborn_scribe, tammypierce, taraljc, taras_wizard, tim_pratt, tobias_buckell, torresroman, truepenny, vaclav2, weasel_king, wrenchhappy, writingthomas, yuki_onna |  | 15: | 4th_st_fantasy, bittercon, chicago2012, chicagofandom, chicagotardis, dawbooks, geek_kon, lj_maintenance, lj_spotlight, mnsf, news, oddcon, sfwa, windycon, wiscon |  | 1: | ansiblezine |
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| Mutual Friends: | 55: 1crowdedhour, agentxpndble, bifemmefatale, blackaire, chats_noirs, christapolis, cressida42, dark_aegis, dark_opus, darkshiver, dewey921, eeknight, fizzixrat, freyjawaru, frostokovich, frozendragon, grammarwoman, hecateuse, herbivorous, hughtaylor, jackiekessler, jennykarp, jimhines, jklumpp, jpsorrow, kelly_swails, kellymccullough, kevinsom, kristine_smith, lilymunster, lyda222, madisondork, magnumtokyo, mapacha, maryrobinette, michaeldthomas, michaellee, mirrorthaw, nnwest, rambleflower, rarelylynne, resolute, rhonawestbrook, sarah_prineas, seanmmurphy, shsilver, soullessminion, starborn_scribe, taraljc, taras_wizard, tobias_buckell, torresroman, vaclav2, wrenchhappy, writingthomas |
| Member of: | 12: 4th_st_fantasy, bittercon, chicago2012, chicagofandom, chicagotardis, dawbooks, geek_kon, mnsf, oddcon, sfwa, windycon, wiscon |
| Account type: | Plus Account |
