If you hadn't guessed, my name is Samantha Alleman Moreau.
Much like my last name (and the Transformers motto), there's more to me than meets the eye. (Hover your mouse above my last name.) Be amazed! Technology, friends.
So, who am I, exactly?
I consider both Louisiana and Mississippi as home. All my family's from Louisiana, and it's where I went to college. But I spent the majority of my childhood and teendom growing up in the Mississippi Delta, and my parents still live there. For some reason, people usually find this all confusing.
My book collection is the majority of my material possessions—1200+. (That's only counting the hold-in-your-hand hardcover or paperbacks. Adding eBooks to that list? Oy vey.) One day, I hope to have all my books in some type of database or catalog, all noted with their corresponding Library of Congress number, current location, and whether I actually gotten around to reading it yet. (If you're interested in seeing what exactly I've got, there's a link to my Libib site under the Book Life heading.)
I find language fascinating. The routine and structure are as familiar to me as the hands writing those words, but I admire the flexibility that comes with creative writing. I can handle you ending a sentence with a preposition, but you better be using the correct form of to/two/too! I also really appreciate how words change over time, whether they grow into normal language or be relegated to the OED to become a reference for more modern vocabulary's beginnings.
Side-note: if you ever ask me to spell something for you, I will literally be seeing the letters dancing in my head; I might even close my eyes to focus on them. I will then slowly enunciate each letter, just like I did in all those spelling bees.
As evidenced above and in various places through this bio, I enjoy technology and learning the basics of webpage creation. As most millennials, I was born into a world still mostly analog. Now, we are all emigrants to the digital realm. My interest in basic computer input was first learning how to start games from the original floppy disks, typing the command into DOS. As I grew and technology itself changed, this expanded into basic HTML, because I wanted to edit my Xanga template. This interest in knowing basic computer languages has actually helped me at work. Even so, I won't be listing "writing blog posts about unrequited crushes and ending it with an HTML block on the result of latest online quiz I had taken" as a skill on my resume any time soon.
Much like in the books I adore, I love analyzing characters in movies and TV series as well. Though should we really call them TV series, if they're not even native to television sets anymore? The deep questions of our time, truly.
I'm really in all senses an information fiend. Snippets of useless-to-most-but-interesting-nonetheless trivia are my forte. For example, the year 2000 was a leap year only because the first two digits were divisible by four. The year 2100? It'll only have 28 days in February, like normal.
On a less "ME" level, my cat Byron is my favorite cat on the entire planet. Second on the list? All other cats. I was a weird cat-crazy fanatic before Taylor Swift made it cool. Fact.
Rounding out personal stuff I enjoy learning about: education, the evolution of feminism in a patriarchal society, politics, genetics and its implication on the emerging field of self-collected health data, genealogy, the culture of all things internet, and how video games are simultaneously evolving to new platforms and devolving to retro-style gameplay.