| First name: | Abby |
| Last name: | Variable |
| Location: | Philadelphia |
| Home state: | Delaware |
| All that sex stuff: | Married, monogamous, bisexual (no, those aren't mutually exclusive) |
| Diagnoses: | Bipolar, thalassemia, ADD |
| Diagnoses in plain English: | Manic depression, Cooley's anemia, and I can't concentrate for sh!t |
| Height: | Two inches shorter than I look |
| Weight: | Ten pounds more than I'd like |
| Eyes: | Greenish-brown or brownish-green |
| Hair: | Mostly brown and very long |
| Education: | Snotty country day school (escaped with diploma, 1993); Yale (B.A. in film studies, 1997); Temple (abandoned M.F.A. film program, 1999) |
| Occupation: | Electronic publishing |
| Avocations: | Reading, eclectic TV-watching, the hardest crossword puzzles I can find, mucking about online |
| Phobias: | Cockroaches, tornadoes, waterslides |
| Philias: | Shiny rocks, mice, ghost stories |
| Pets: | A parakeet who rules then entire house, a fluctuating number of mice |
| Pet peeves: | Small dogs, car alarms, incorrect punctuation |
