8 random facts about kris waldherr

Diane at Thriving and Transcribing tagged me on this meme to share eight random facts about myself. So I guess I’ll pony up . . .

1. My first job was working in a library as a page. What did a library page do? Put books away. Sounds fascinating, right? Nope — but it was a great way to browse the stacks and see which publisher was publishing what. I remember discovering Stephen King’s Carrie in a first edition, way before anyone knew who he was.

2. My weirdest job was restoring a spookhouse in an amusement park. It must have been World War II era, since there one of the gags was a soldier in German uniform popping up from behind a gravestone. When we finished, a short article in the New Yorker was writen about the restoration.

3. The zip code I live in is the most ethnically diverse in the United States.

4. When I was a child, my favorite novel was Jane Eyre. Or maybe it was Little Women? In any event, I was obsessed with finding as many illustrated editions of both books as I could and comparing the different artistic responses. Oh, and guess which March sister I identified with? It wasn’t Meg.
5. David Palladini, the artist who created the Aquarian Tarot and the Palladini Tarot, was one of my professors at SVA. He seemed very bitter and liked to insult his students, though I got along with him okay. His favorite quote was “Either you’re an artist or you’re a butcher.” Our class eventually revolted and jumped ship. I hope he’s happier now!

6. During art school, I worked as a graphic designer for anarchist socialists on the lam from the FBI. I learned this several years after the fact. I never found out the full story, but they were incredibly pleasant people to work for and always paid me on time.

7. I once restored a sixteenth century English cottage. On one of the walls that I replastered, I engraved a short quote from E.M Foster’s A Room With a View in a hidden place.

8. My not-so-secret dreams include taking ballet class again, learning to fence, and how to dance the flamenco. Ha cha!

I tag Joanna.

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