Well, what do you want to know? I am me. I am a mother, sister, daughter, teacher, writer, dreamer, and a lot of other roles. I am what I am. I am me. But for those of you who want all the other details, I'll be silly and post one of those MySpace type profile editor things that give you way more information about me than you need to know. And you know exactly what I mean... the "20 questions about you" and the "No For Real You've Never Answered These Questions Before" surveys.

Name: Amanda Hilliard Chase (born Amanda Ann Hilliard)
Screen Names: Over the years I've used (from the most recent)... LadyJedi, Lady Jaye, Sykora, PenanceX, Et`Kal, Iana Et`Kal, Starchaser, Shadowstar, Tagen, Aenigma68, MagikAX
Nicknames: Manda, Manda Panda, Mandy, Mander, Wednesday, LJ
Birthday: July 21
Age: Old enough to know better
Location: Somewhere in Pittsburgh
Family: My kids: Noelle (born in '03) and Livia (born in '06) but I have a huge family around me. Family is the most important thing to me and most friends are family as well.
Pets: One cat: Nomi. Poor Yin ran away.
Education: Master of Science in Education, emphasis in Educational Technology
Occupation: Full time Product Communications Specialist for a software company (builds patient management systems and voice surveys for companies), and an adjunct instructor for Boise State University's Education Technology graduate program.
What I Really Want to Be: A published writer, comic book store owner

Hobbies: Aside from spending time with my family, I enjoy Pittsburgh Penguins hockey, writing, comic books, action figure collecting, and whatever else I'm interested in at the moment. I run an X-Men RPG guild on GaiaOnline.com called "Academy X" if any of you are Gaia players.
Favorite Colors: Dark Red, Dark Green, and Royal Purple
Favorite TV shows (current): Heroes, Lost, The Office, Fringe, Food Network Challenge, Ace of Cakes, House, Pysche, The Big Bang Theory, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Mythbusters
Favorite TV shows (not being made): Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Quantum Leap, The Tick, She-Ra, Jem, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, Nightmare Before Christmas, Galaxy Quest, and Mallrats
Other Movies I recommend highly: Inventing the Abbots, Walk the Line, Unbreakable, X-Men 2, Moulin Rogue, Iron Man, Mystery Men
Favorite Music on my Playlists: Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin, Rise Against, The Killers, David Cook, Daughtry, P!nk, Linkin Park
Favorite Oldy but Goody music: U2, Alanis Morrisette, the Beatles, Soundgarden, Johnny Cash, Pearl Jam, Bush, Nirvana, Jewel
Favorite Books: "Dune" by Frank Herbert, "Nine Princes in Amber" by Roger Zelazny, and "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card (Bean & Petra forever!)
Favorite Superhero: I'm a classic Wolverine nerd, but I also enjoy Batman, Elektra, Phoenix (Classic Jean & Rachael), and Shadowcat.
Favorite Supervillain: Dark Phoenix and White Queen (I love to hate her)
Favorite Comic: Excalibur (original version with Nightcrawler, Kitty, and Rachael), Sandman (Neil Gaiman), and Astonishing X-Men (by Joss Whedon)
Favorite Things: The silence of the morning after a snow fall, hoodies, comfy pajama pants, Reese Cups, Livia and Noelle being goofy, making the kids laugh, Christmas, Niagara Falls, flowers, fresh garden vegetables.

Things I miss: I miss a lot of my old RPing buddies that I have lost contact with along the way. Many of them came from the Federation Sim Group or FSG from about ten or so years ago. So if any of y'all come across this page: EMAIL ME.... *cough* Tal Breno, Chang, Char... see, I write these things hoping Google spiders the page and folks who get bored like me and look for instances of people and things that they used to know... maybe, just maybe they'll find this page and say "Hey, I know that girl. Maybe I should email her." Eh, maybe I'm a bit of an attention whore, but hey, it's worth a shot.
Personality: I hate this question so I have no idea why I even wrote it. My personality is a wide range of things. I think the prime thing I think of is that I want to take care of everybody and be everybody's mom. It's the Cancerian part of me. I can be moody and stubborn, but I can also be patient and compromising. I am a vast mix. I tend to be the glass half-full person. I don't think everything in the world is evil. There is a silver lining to something somewhere no matter how small it may be.
A good day is... Any day where I wake up to see it.
Life philosophy: Since the loss of my husband a few years back, I have been trying to learn from it and live with a: today first type of attitude... I also try not to dwell on what I can't change and learn to take things one step at a time. Now, I try to do this... I'm not always successful. Every day is a gift, not a given. If I've learned anything through this all is that the kids are the most important thing in my life and always will be.
What I value most: Family.

Anyway, that's enough about me. Hey maybe somebody I'll actually do something with this site.