Julie Lavoie's Home Page

Julie not quite fitting into Nikita's dryer

(Do you ever get this feeling that you somehow just don't fit in?)

The autumn leaves are falling like rain.
Although my neighbors are all barbarians
and you, you are a thousand miles away;
there are always two cups at my table. 

You've reached the web page of Julie Lavoie, a (usually) right-side-up mathematics geek, sushi monster, moody backpacker, lover of poetry and recovering sysadmin, living in Waterloo, Canada.

You can look at personal stuff about me, like my current computer naming scheme, what I want for Chrismas, where people think I'm from, my geek code, my GPG key, my death klezmer band and a very satisfying (at least for me) picture of me beating up a user.

After 7 years of avoiding Internet cliches, I've finally broken down and wrote a web page about my cat. There's also a page of personal stuff about me, but being a geek, it's really about work and school. And of course, my resume.

You can read about places I've been: trips, parties, talks, conferences, installfests, raves, continents.

You can read my writings, including the keener purity test , and my attempts at translating the poetry of Richard Desjardins, the French-Canadian poet and songwriter, and stories about my trip to Europe.

You can join the montreal-raves mailing list, a discussion list about techno music and raving in the Montreal area.

I've started a technopagan Book of Shadows online: "All praises to the technomother", where I want to join the poetry and reverence for nature of traditional Goddess-worshiping paganism with the hard sciences, cool technology, mathematics and rave culture.