About Sappy Chick
Hellooo. My name is Carla. I’m 35 *sigh* 36 *sniff* 37 years old, and I was born and raised and currently live in Greenville, South Carolina. Oh, I drifted a little southward for college and spent a year in grad school a little northward, but I ended up back here. It’s not so bad.
I’ve been married since 1999 to Cinlach. No, that’s not his real name. We have a dog-ter named Domino. She’s part shepherd, part chow, part collie and ALL diva!
The name “Sappy Chick” comes from my loving husband and a coworker who love to tease my about my choice in music and movies — not all of which is sappy, mind you.
I started my blog in April 2005 to get more of an outlet for my writing because the company where I had worked for ten years took me out of the writing department for the second time to put me back out on a desktop publishing assembly line. I try not to talk about that too much. I’d rather not get dooced. But as of the end of June 2008, the company no longer exists, so all bets are now off.
What’s happened since then is that I’ve talked a lot about myself through writing prompts, and I’ve posted a few bits of my fiction. You can expect that formula to continue. I don’t mind reading your feedback on what I’ve written as long as it’s constructive. If you think it sucks, tell me why. Tell me what you think will make it better, but I reserve the right to think you’re a moron and ignore you. Neener, neener.
Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are probably not the opinions of my employer and some family members, and while I should be worried about that, I’m just not.
Other Legal Stuff: You probably won’t want to steal my writing, but if you do, I will find you and create a voodoo doll of you and give you genital warts.
There’s a title of a book, “A Woman is not a Girl…”. and I typed it in on my sympatico.msn.ca home page and got this blog my a man, no less, I scrolled down and there you were, “Sappy Chick” and I just decided to read it.
I’m an adult female and I prefer woman over “girl” and especially “lady” ’cause a “lady” I’m not. I’m from central Ontario, a long distance from the Carolina’s where one of my favourite singers, Clay Aiken is from.
As to the original blog by this “guy” seems like I’ll have to register just to comment on his question about a woman being a “girl” or whatever.
In the small touristy town I live in a woman is never a woman. She’s always a “lady” even women thirty years younger than me and I cringe when a parent says to her child, be careful you……that “lady”. For your information, an adult female is indeed, a woman, a “lady” is a socially expected behaviour. “Ladylike” if you will. I’ve thought about this word and said it slooowly and think of it now as lady-like, as in being a “lady” and whatever that implies a woman is ’supposed’ to be. Ladies of yesterday didn’t do or behave like women of today do, and I’m glad of it.
Thanks for the visit and the comment. I know what blog you came from, and some of my comments on that post were meant playfully. I don’t comment on that site anymore, though.
It usually doesn’t bother me to be referred to as a woman or a girl, although 99% of the time I am referred to as a woman. “Girl” is usually reserved for friends who say things like, “Girl, what are you doing?” But I suppose it doesn’t bother me because I know who I am.
Hi Carla,
I have been going through your blog lately and I like it.
I am writing this e-mail just to brief you on a project me and two of my best friends are currently undertaking in the field of amateur writing. We are about to launch a site (www.endofthisworld.com) which is about writing up a story by the users themselves. We will provide only the first and final chapter of the story, which as the domain name suggests will end up with the destruction of the world, and we will leave the rest to be written by the users.
Our scope is to gather as many people as possible and have them contributing their ideas for each chapter of the story as it evolves towards the very final chapter of it. Overall they will be 25 chapters so taking out the 2 contributed by us we have 23 remaining to be written by the users. Each user will have the rights to write up his own chapter and then when we gather a good enough number of contributions we can proceed to the next phase which is voting which contribution is the best to be part of the actual story. For the chapters selected the users that have written them will share any rights applicable to them if by any chance this story is commercially exploitable at the end of the 25 chapters.
We will be very happy if you join our project and also if you spread the word around to any people you might know either over the Internet or in real life that might be interested in participating in something like this.
We really liked you blog and we hope all the best with it.
Kind regards,
Michael