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| Because I couldn't find a better photo -- looking "boudy prof," as Sarah calls it. (Boudy = boudoir; prof = professional.) |
Pamela. The chief organizer and hostess to Wednesday gatherings, Pamela is a writer/blogger/social media marketer and aspiring entrepreneur. She loves animals, travel (particularly to Italy and the rest of Europe), reading, health, medicine, dancing, cooking, and nearly all the arts. She was born in Chicago, but lives in the western suburbs. Her house serves as the physical central hub to the gatherings, as the members live at various reaches of the Chicagoland area. Her artistic focus for the Wednesday Arts Section will be writing, humor, photography, and drawing. You can find her (much more regular and focused) writing at rehabrevolution.blogspot.com, pamelahsieh.com, and at jennytaylorboudoirsblog.net (as the Boudoir Bloggin' Babe, with her regular column "Sexy Spotlights"). She majored in rhetoric (creative writing) and Italian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a member of the Chicago Writers Association.
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| Looking pensive at a winery in "So. IL" |
Anthony. One of the founding members of the Wednesday dinner parties, Anthony and Pamela met at an international party in Urbana where they apparently had gone to the same university for four years. They bonded over Italy, wine, and food together at her apartment where the seed of weekly gatherings took root. Ironically enough, Anthony's culinary contributions were Japanese (despite his being 75% Italian by heritage), and Pamela's were Italian. He is an electrical engineer who designs LED technology in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, but with a talent for the dextrous arts, such as sculpting and building things. He loves entomology, dinosaurs, collecting antiquated engineering or math textbooks, travel, and family. It is his goal to own a real estate empire someday, and he is currently exploring the idea of graduate school.
Shannon. As the third and final co-founder of the Wednesday dinner parties, Shannon has known Pamela since high school when they were in drama club together. Since then, they attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and were even roommates for a semester surrounding their individual time abroad. Shannon majored in advertising, minored in French, and continued her education at the Chicago Portfolio School. She now works full-time as a multi-skilled graphic designer. Her talents include the visual, performing, and culinary arts, kicking ass at Draw Something on iPhone, and witty quips in group conversation. She introduced the famous and beloved Love Tart to the dinner party repertoire, and is engaged to a computer programmer named Mike. Their wedding is this upcoming October.
Sarah. When she's not busy "living the dream" in Chicago, Sarah's nomadic bloodline compels her to travel wherever and whenever possible. She enjoys long walks on the beach and discovering the meaning of life. She is a beginning freelance writer and seasoned marketer slash nanny slash jeweler. Her favorite pastimes are telling everyone how amazing she is by snarkily beating them at any and all board games and scooping her cats' litterbox. She is the co-founder and co-star of the bizarre "hit" What Think Life series. Don't worry, if she ruins your sweatshirt, she'll just buy you a new one.
Charlie. The newest addition to our Wednesday group, Charlie actually goes way back. In elementary school, he and Sarah were brothers from another mother (er, yeah). He and Pamela then became tight in high school where she majored in nerd whispering. He is the proverbial "Charlie" mentioned in Pamela's U of C Hospitals commercial. Charlie graduated from UIC (University of Illinois at Chicago) with a double major in psychology and criminal justice. To support running his business, Titan's Forge, of which he is a co-founder/owner, he moonlights as a general manager at Potbelly's Sandwich Shop in Elmhurst. He's an avid gamer of most formats and genres, a self-proclaimed music snob ("Rap, pop, and country need not apply"), a cinephile, and a would-be writer, game designer, and producer.
Stephanie. Pamela's younger sister, who acquired the inexplicable nickname "Moose" at the age of four, is a senior at DePaul University studying public relations. She hopes to work for a PR agency in Chicago and/or become a wedding planner. In the meantime, she is currently a server at a seafood kitchen, after too many years working as a master of all trades at her parents' restaurant. She enjoys making lists, organizing, and making puns -- a little too much. Her new fashion/beauty/lifestyle blog, The Naked Canvas, was launched in April 2012. To her sister's distress, she watches way too many YouTube videos and harbors unending love for romantic comedies, tragic love stories like Titanic and Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter, and the Friends TV series, though she reads infrequently and watches hardly any television today -- besides, naturally, The Bachelor/ette every. Single. Year.
Yuko. Originally from Japan, Yuko moved to the Chicagoland suburbs in December 2011 to be with her significant other, Terry (who has opted out of the collective due to work and time constraints). They first wed in February 2012 at the Cultural Center in Chicago and are planning a larger and more traditional wedding in July of the same year. She first met Pamela in Paris in 2010, as she was traveling the world after graduating from college, and shortly thereafter, stayed with her in Chicago. Apart from traveling, she enjoys reading, needlework, yoga, animals (particularly dogs), and finding new recipes -- much to her husband's appreciation. She currently nannies locally and hopes to karaoke with the group in the near future.
Tony. A county board member in his hometown of Aurora, Illinois, Tony is an avid follower of all things political, particularly Democratic. He is a talented writer and nerd of all subjects besides psychology and perhaps math (which is what we have Anthony for). He knows basic Italian, as well as a few words in a wide spectrum of random languages (Chinese, German . . .) because of said nerddom, and of course loves sci-fi. He has an affinity for rats, foxes, and puppies -- but so far, has only had the first. But he's known to baby-sit Pamela's bird and guinea pigs when she ups and leaves the country. Occasionally, he upkeeps a series of film reviews on his YouTube channel that star him as a fictional character Baron Wayback; he's a former drama nerd as well. Back at U of I, where he attended a couple years (and met Pamela, who supposedly woke him at 8.30am on a Saturday -- a likely story -- to identify someone as their rhetoric TA . . . or not), he was an actor in Fishing with Dynamite, a student sketch comedy organization.
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