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Writer's Block: Globetrotting
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Probably Great Britain. Need to look up my family roots.
Probably Great Britain. Need to look up my family roots.
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Hypothesis Now In Doubt
Sep. 24th, 2009 09:58 pmA search for my Nineteenth-Century ancestors seemed to turn up evidence that one "Bierce, Stephen R" fought for the Maine Infantry's 11th Regiment during the Civil War. A quick peek at their website indicated that the spelling of the surname was in fact Bearce--but I may need to pursue it further. Could I, at some future point in my lifetime, meet The Doctor or somebody in the Time Corps, go through a regeneration and return to history as a Bluecoat Corporal?
I've always been open to the notion that I might be fictional and a figment of some deranged sci-fi writer's imagination. But does this open my life to sequels and fanfiction? Would the idea comfort you or scare you if it were what was happening to you?
I've always been open to the notion that I might be fictional and a figment of some deranged sci-fi writer's imagination. But does this open my life to sequels and fanfiction? Would the idea comfort you or scare you if it were what was happening to you?
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FB Status Chatter
Feb. 15th, 2009 12:54 amMy Sister Lyn: "Did anybody get a count on how many Mondays in a row that was before we reached Tuesday?"
Me: "I think that particular Monday was the Tuesday-eating kind. It had become anti-Mondayotic resistant and we had to amputate Wednesday, Thursday and most of Friday to treat it."
Mom: "There is a weird strain of, well, weird in this family and I blame it on Ambrose, 'cause he can't defend himself at this late date!"
Lyn: "All Bierces are weird Mum, it goes all the way to Austin Bierce. And you took the name, so you're weird too. And my kids are absolutely half-weird (being Bierce-Wilsons), which in a way makes them adorably weirder than if they were 100% weird. I wonder if Jon is less weird now that he has had a Bierce-ectomy from his name? Hmm."
Mom: "RIGHT! It's all Austin's fault, even though he was probably politically correct in a politically incorrect family."
Lyn: "Face it Mum, he was a weirdo who couldn't even spell his own name."
FOOTNOTE: Austin Bierce was one of the descendants of Augustine Bearse, who came to Massachusetts in the middle Seventeenth Century as an indentured man (deported from England, allegedly for being a Gypsy) took a native wife and eventually became a freeman landowner farmer. Austin changed the spelling of the surname for unknown reasons, before or during the American Revolution. Logic says that all American Bierces are his issue; we haven't connected all our geneological dots to him on this side of the family line yet.
Me: "I think that particular Monday was the Tuesday-eating kind. It had become anti-Mondayotic resistant and we had to amputate Wednesday, Thursday and most of Friday to treat it."
Mom: "There is a weird strain of, well, weird in this family and I blame it on Ambrose, 'cause he can't defend himself at this late date!"
Lyn: "All Bierces are weird Mum, it goes all the way to Austin Bierce. And you took the name, so you're weird too. And my kids are absolutely half-weird (being Bierce-Wilsons), which in a way makes them adorably weirder than if they were 100% weird. I wonder if Jon is less weird now that he has had a Bierce-ectomy from his name? Hmm."
Mom: "RIGHT! It's all Austin's fault, even though he was probably politically correct in a politically incorrect family."
Lyn: "Face it Mum, he was a weirdo who couldn't even spell his own name."
FOOTNOTE: Austin Bierce was one of the descendants of Augustine Bearse, who came to Massachusetts in the middle Seventeenth Century as an indentured man (deported from England, allegedly for being a Gypsy) took a native wife and eventually became a freeman landowner farmer. Austin changed the spelling of the surname for unknown reasons, before or during the American Revolution. Logic says that all American Bierces are his issue; we haven't connected all our geneological dots to him on this side of the family line yet.
International Gypsy Day
Apr. 2nd, 2008 12:07 pmApril 8th is International Gypsy Day--I found this while looking up information related to my geneology and things of that nature. The man who brought my surname to America was deported to Massachusetts as an indentured servant because he was a Gypsy. Unfortunately for me, I don't know if my bloodline connects with his...I've only been able to trace my family tree to about the middle of the 19th century--about two centuries short. I doubt I could rejoin the Gypsies if I could trace the line all the way back any more than I could join the Seneca Indian tribe (my mother is the grandchild of a Seneca, so while I have Seneca blood, it isn't enough under their rules to join them).
A friend in adolescence who knew a little about palmistry examined my hands and told me that I had some psychic power--but the trait is only shown on my left hand, not my right. So my predictions of the future are very erratic.
But in theory I can hurl Gypsy curses. Maybe I'll throw some around on the 8th. Anybody want something smitten by the Curse? Come see me on the 8th and we'll make a deal!
FP
A friend in adolescence who knew a little about palmistry examined my hands and told me that I had some psychic power--but the trait is only shown on my left hand, not my right. So my predictions of the future are very erratic.
But in theory I can hurl Gypsy curses. Maybe I'll throw some around on the 8th. Anybody want something smitten by the Curse? Come see me on the 8th and we'll make a deal!
FP
