Endymienne (Endi) was born Kelly Clark in the bay area of California. Seventeen years later she made it through a typically grueling pubescence and graduated from a small-town high school in Vancouver, WA where she received reasonably good grades, played the clarinet, and developed an unhealthy fanaticism for the musician Ben Folds. She trekked off to college in Seattle at the University of Washington where her obsession with Ben Folds grew, as did her association with likewise obsessive internet fans across the country. For those three college years Endi occasionally traveled across the country to visit those friends. She also worked at a Barnes and Noble Cafe, DJ'd at the college radio station, frequented rawk concerts, went to church, salsa danced, and usually attended classes. At age twenty Endi graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Comparative Religion, no hope of a real career, and a nominally impressive transcript.
From there she packed up her little green Subaru Legacy and drove to New Mexico where she spent the summer working for her uncle in Santa Fe and living in Albuquerque with her cousin. After getting bruises from hooking up U-Haul trailers and cracking skin from the arid heat, for a change of pace, she joined AmeriCorps*NCCC and took off for Charleston, SC where the climate is comparable to the blast of hot moisture that escapes from the dishwasher. Endi spent the next four months writing letters, getting up at 5:30am for Physical Training, disaster reliefing in New Orleans, hammering in Atlanta, living, eating, sleeping, and working with her team (Gold 4!) participating in various service projects around the SE states.
At 21, Endi moved back home with her mother in Vancouver and began redeveloping lost interests and accruing new hobbies. After a few months of trial and error (read: workin' for the man), she landed a full-time job at the non-profit child welfare agency in Portland. She also finally moved the hell out of rural Vancouver and moved to eclectic SE Portland. After four years in SE Portland Endi admitted that, while SE Portland was still her home, providing customer service was not; she's not working for Stand for Children, a non-profit grassroots political lobby for public education. Not only does she get to crunch numbers and pull reports all day, but it's within walking distance of a handful of tattoo parlours.
These days Endi still enjoys reading, dancing, rawk, coffee, and discussing religion and politics at (inappropriate?) times. She's easily amused by Madlibs, crossword puzzles, card games, bouncy balls, and shiny objects. When she has the opportunity to participate in non-sedentary activities, Endi can usually be found ogling kittens, singing karaoke, Tribal Fusion belly dancing, body modifying, dancin at open mic nights, barefooted grass frolicking, dancing at any possible occassion, teaching dance, absorbing music, ecstatic dancing, drinkin' cocktails, not sleeping, creating crafty items, painting, or stuffing herself into cardboard boxes.
email: endymienne-at-gmail.com
