Our first database round-up journal can be found here.
Welcome to our second database round-up! I’d like especially to welcome everyone who has become a member or watcher since last time, and thank everyone who has made submissions to the database. We’ve been bowled over by the enthusiastic response. I’ve had a lot of interesting conversations with a lot of interesting people.
Here are the latest additions to the database. Please click on the links to read the submitters’ full statements. (I have abbreviated most of them):
Travel and Home
Bostonian, born and bred: MotleyDreams is a resident of Boston.
Spain: doughboycafe has lived in Spain for over four years and speaks the language.
Being an Expatriate: doughboycafe, as well as living in Spain, has lived in the Greek islands.
Skills and Work
Archaeology: doughboycafe was an archaeologist for several years and did digs and museum work in the US and Greece.
Fluent in Russian: chasingcloudbursts has Russian as a first language.
Education
Psychology: starlessblueeyes earned her bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and has a fair amount of knowledge on psychological theory.
Family
Raised as an army brat: Koszmar-Sen was born in Germany, where her father met her mother and got married, and travelled back and forth from the states to Europe several times. She has memories of her schools from the bases, as well as some of the housing off base where military families stayed, and can also tell about some of the strains put on her as a child because her father went to war and was often out in the field.
Living on a Military Base: doughboycafe lived part of their life on a military installation (joint Navy/Airforce, US).
Having a mother with mental health issues: Koszmar-Sen is willing to discuss what's it's like to have a mother with a few issues.
The Oldest of Four Half Siblings: RoamingShadow shares a father with her siblings. The four of them are growing up in three separate households.
Number 6 of 10: Xyron7777777 is the sixth of ten siblings, brought up in various households.
Health
Synesthesia: doughboycafe has synesthesia, and sees letters, numbers, months, and days of the week in colour.
Type 2 Diabetes: SelahNox has had type 2 Diabetes since she was eleven.
Mental Health: SelahNox has experience of living with someone with mental health problems.
Poly-Cystic Ovary Syndrome: SelahNox has known she has PCOS since she was thirteen, though had symptoms as young as nine.
Personal
LGBTQIA+: SNM-Skye identifies as biromantic demisexual and her closest friends identify with the asexual, bisexual, pansexual, panromantic, genderfluid, gender-neutral, demigirl, transgender, demisexual, and questioning communities. She is currently studying in the Gender and Women's studies minor program at her university and plans to go for a Master's degree in the Gender Studies field.
GLBTQAP+: starlessblueeyes is a 23 year old bisexual female living in North Carolina (in the USA) and has had many unique experiences living openly in the very mixed political atmosphere of her city and state. She has been an ear and a guide to those in various versions and stages of coming out. Straight, gay, lesbian, trans, queer, pan; she has known and cared for them all. (But states that she has little to no experience with asexual individuals up to now.)
Mental Health: starlessblueeyes has been diagnosed with clinical depression and has a great deal of experience with bipolar I and bipolar II by way of many wonderful friends.
If any of those areas would be useful for your writing research, please contact the submitter directly by sending them a note. If you want to make a submission to the database yourself, the information is on our profile.
Requests
We take requests for information too. If you need someone else’s personal experience or knowledge as help with your writing research, and it isn’t in the database, leave a comment here. We’ll gather all the requests together and put them out as another journal, asking if anyone can help. Though if someone reading this journal sees a request in the comments they can help with, please feel free to contact the requester immediately.
You can make a request at any time—leave a comment on whatever is the current journal or on the group profile, or send us a note. It isn’t necessary to be a member or a watcher to make a request, but it would be lovely if you joined in.
