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==At a Glance==
==At a Glance==


Name: Melanie (aka Mel)
Name: Mel


Location: Huntsville, Alabama, USA
Location: Alabama, USA


Age: 27
Age: {{age|2364|08|29}}


Occupation: HR Manager/Grad Student
Occupation: Human Resources


Hobbies: Orchestra, Retro Gaming, Volunteering, TableTop hangouts, Vegan Cooking, Yoga, Pilates, Reading
Hobbies: Reading and latch-hooking


Joined UFOP: August 2012
Joined UFOP: August 2012
Writer ID: A238908T10


==About Me==
==About Me==
[[File:MelBuschGardens.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Me at Busch Gardens with some friends]]
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===Generic Information===
===Generic Information===


Here's where I guess I get to tell you all more about me. In case you were curious or something. I was born and raised in the Metro DC area. My dad brought me up with Star Trek so I have been watching since I can remember. I also enjoy writing. My first college degree was in Liberal Arts; I studied Poetry and Music before switching over to Business. (For a video of me in high school band at VBODA [http://www.papabayne.com/vikingband2/symphonic_050312_video.htm Click Here] and to see my band be the very first band to ever perform at the Walt Disney World Disney Honors [http://www.papabayne.com/vikingband2/honors_performance_041405_video.htm Click Here] GO MIGHTY VIKING BAND!) I have a BSBA in Management with a concentration in Human Resource Management and I was accepted into grad school at the beginning of 2014 where I'm now working on getting an MBA in HR. Currently I work in Human Resources, running the HR department for multiple companies within the organization I work at, as well as administrative duties. I have been veg for 2 1/2 years, which resulted in much joking from my friends on the Apollo. Because I work in a stressful industry, I am big on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. I used to practice Yoga, but time constraints have resulted in me not doing that as much. I am working on getting back into doing that again, though. When I am not working at my full time job or working out, I am always hanging out with my significant other and going to concerts in the art district. I also do quite a bit of volunteer work whenever possible because I believe in giving back. I mentor college students in my field as well as volunteer to teach people how to eat healthier (obesity and diabetes are rampant in the South!!)
Here's where I guess I get to tell you all more about me. In case you were curious or something. I was born and raised in the Metro DC area. My dad brought me up with Star Trek so I have been watching since I can remember. I also enjoy writing. My first college degree was in Liberal Arts; I studied Poetry and Music before switching over to Business. I have a MBA in HR and currently I work in Human Resources for a Behavioral Healthcare company. I have been vegetarian for over 10 years and was vegan for 3, which resulted in much joking from my friends on the Apollo.
Those who know me, whether in RL or in OOC chats, know that I have a strange (to put it nicely) sense of humor, which is a genetic trait apparently because everyone on the one side of my family has the very same sense of humor. Those who know me in RL also know that I have a strange addiction to dying my hair. Most of my friends have never seen my natural hair color. That is an extremely sad fact. I usually end up back to my red hair, though.  


CURRENT HAIR COLOR: Auburn Black!!(check back as it's always changing!)
Those who know me, whether in RL or in OOC chats, know that I have a strange (to put it nicely) sense of humor, which is a genetic trait apparently because everyone on the one side of my family has the very same sense of humor.  
 
Sometimes I enjoy making people uncomfortable. I have no idea where this comes from, but I find it highly amusing. I typically do this by saying slightly inappropriate things and seeing how people react.
While I tend to read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy or business books, currently I am reading "Little House: The First Five Novels" (I am on the second of the five, which is "Farmer Boy"). I do wish I had more time to read, but as of late, most of my reading has been limited to reading posts. I am also attempting to write a story for my own leisure (Fun fact- part of my inspiration to join the fleet was to increase my typing speeds again. The last time I posted on a ship I was typing well over 100 wpm and I had been down to 40 wpm. I'm now about 70 wpm, so I am on my way!)


===My History with Gaming===
===My History with Gaming===


I have been big on gaming since I was a kid. Growing up, my friends and I created the equivalent of what is now known as LARPing. We each had our own characters and we would make up quests that we would play out. From there I got into video games. I am a Nintendo-girl myself, so I played a lot of Zelda, DK, Mario, etc. and I never really moved on from there. I still play the old school games instead of the newer ones, although I love COD. I dabble with computer games, but I typically would play on my friends computers and not my own (system requirement issues, ftl). I also have a Table Top gaming group now as well.
I have been big on gaming since I was a kid. Growing up, my friends and I created the equivalent of what I now know is known as LARPing. We each had our own characters and we would make up quests that we would play out. From there I got into video games. I am a Nintendo-girl myself, so I played a lot of Zelda, DK, Mario, etc. and I never really moved on from there. I still play the old school games instead of the newer ones. I dabbled with computer games, but I typically would play on my friends computers and not my own (system requirement issues, ftl). I also enjoy Table Top games.


Back in the 90s, on of my Trekker friends told me about this thing called a "PBeM" for Star Trek. Soon after I was an addict. I was on three different ships at one point (fun fact: one of the characters was named T'Mar and had striking similarities to my current character, although she was not Betazoid). I was a Captain on one of the ships, however, the ships soon reached the common fate for many of those ships: one by one the members started leaving and soon there was not enough to keep the ships going. In the early 2000s, one of the ships (the USS Cavalry- formerly part of the BravoFleet) attempted a comeback and it gave me a taste for the simming world once more, but about a year later it had reached the same fate again. Despite my desire to play with that group that had become like family, I knew a third attempt would never happen. Around that point I was in high school anyways and switched over to gaming and shenanigans with my friends. The PBeM world quickly faded away as I began growing up and thinking about my future.  
Back in the 90s, one of my Trekker friends told me about this thing called a "PBeM" for Star Trek. Soon after I was an addict. I was on three different ships at one point (fun fact: one of the characters was named T'Mar and had striking similarities to my SB118 character of the same name, although she was not Betazoid). I was a Captain on one of the ships, however the ships soon reached the common fate for many of those ships: one by one the members started leaving and soon there was not enough to keep the ships going. In the early 2000s, one of the ships (the USS Cavalry- formerly part of the BravoFleet) attempted a comeback and it gave me a taste for the simming world once more, but about a year later it had reached the same fate again. Despite my desire to play with that group that had become like family, I knew a third attempt would never happen. Around that point I was in high school anyways and switched over to gaming and shenanigans with my friends. The PBeM world quickly faded away as I began growing up and thinking about my future.  


Fast forward to the summer of 2012. I was working at two different internships, both of which had a lot of down time, due to being unpaid work. While I was working I realized that my typing was much slower than the days where I was posting on three ships for fun (I averaged well over 100wpm back then). It started as an idea to help me increase typing speed, but I quickly realized I missed the action and even more, the friends that came with PBeMs. A quick google search brought me to UFOP and without taking any time to talk myself out of it, I signed up. There would be no going back from there...
Fast forward to the summer of 2012. I was working at two different internships, both of which had a lot of down time, due to being unpaid work. While I was working, I realized that my typing was much slower than the days where I was posting on three ships for fun (I averaged well over 100wpm back then). It started as an idea to help me increase typing speed, but I quickly realized I missed the action and even more, the friends that came with PBeMs. A quick google search brought me to UFOP and without taking any time to talk myself out of it, I signed up. There would be no going back from there...
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===Current Playing Characters===
===Current Playing Characters===


*Lt.Cmdr. [[T'Mar]] - [[USS Gemini]]
*LtJG. [[Eleanor Park]] - [[USS Constitution]]


===Current NPCs===
===PNPCs===


*PNPC Lt. (JG) [[Rejock,_Loleh| Loleh Rejock]]
*PNPC Ens. [[Sarai Porter]]
*PNPC Lt. [[Meyer,_Katelynn| Katelynn Meyer]]
*FORMER PC Cmdr. [[T'Mar]]
*PNPC Ens. Sarai Porter
**[[User:T'Mar/sandbox| T'Mar's Bio Sandbox]]
*MSNPC Lt.Cmdr. Sarah Mason
*PNPC LtCmdr [[Kiamon Tagus]] (formerly MSNPC turned PNPC)
*FORMER PC Cmdr. [[Sarah Mason]] (currently inactive)
*FORMER PC LtCmdr. [[Cassiopeia Shanta]] (currently inactive)


===Former Characters===
===Former Characters===
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* MSNPC Aida Midasti- Town Healer on Planet Eridea
* MSNPC Aida Midasti- Town Healer on Planet Eridea
* MSNPC Commander Koval- Rogue Klingon extraordinaire
* MSNPC Commander Koval- Rogue Klingon extraordinaire
* MSNPC Lt.Cmdr. Sarah Mason (started as a MSNPC, then eventually became a PC and now PNPC)
* PNPC Lt. (JG) [[Rejock,_Loleh| Loleh Rejock]]
*PNPC Lt. [[Meyer,_Katelynn| Katelynn Meyer]]
*PNPC Christina "Mama" Mason


==OOC Contributions==
==OOC Record==


*[[Podcast_Team_Members| Podcast Team]] Contributing member/Co-host; 9/28/2012 to present, Co-Facilitator; 12/1/2014- present
===OOC Contributions===
 
====Current Contributions====
*[[Constitution-B_Quote_of_the_Month| USS Constitution Quote of the Month]] Facilitator; 3/2024 - present
 
====Previous Contributions====
*[[Podcast_Team_Members| Podcast Team]] Contributing member/Co-host; 9/28/2012 to 10/9/2016, Co-Facilitator; 12/1/2014- 3/2015. Facilitator; 3/2015- 8/2015. Co-Facilitator; 8/2015-9/2015.
**Guest Host appearances:  
**Guest Host appearances:  
***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e0QFkEOWZg UFOP: Starbase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-1]
***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e0QFkEOWZg UFOP: Starbase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-1] [https://archive.org/details/UfopStarbase118Podcast-Episode2390-1 UFOP: Starbase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-1 alt link]
***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk67iMwjGOc UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-4]
***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk67iMwjGOc UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-4] [https://archive.org/details/Podcast23904 UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-4 alt link]
***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTorcxgLOZ8 UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-6]
***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTorcxgLOZ8 UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-6] [https://archive.org/details/UFOPStarBase118Podcast-Episode2390-6 UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2390-6 alt link]
***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF10vH1xSYw UFOP: StarBase 118 Holiday Podcast & Award Preview]
***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF10vH1xSYw UFOP: StarBase 118 Holiday Podcast & Award Preview] [https://archive.org/details/UFOPStarBase118HolidayPodcastAndAward UFOP: StarBase 118 Holiday Podcast & Award Preview alt link]
***[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSqaDTWlc1I UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2391-4]
***[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSqaDTWlc1I UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2391-4] [https://archive.org/details/JulyPodcastVideoAtHome UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2391-4 alt link]
*UFOP History Team Contributing member & Co-facilitator; 4/4/2013 to present
***[https://archive.org/details/starbase118podcast-march2015 UFOP: StarBase 118 Podcast: Episode 2392-3]
*USS Gemini Newsletter Team Initial Facilitator and contributing member; 11/2014- present
*UFOP History Team Contributing member, Co-facilitator, observer; 4/4/2013 to 2021ish (on and off)
**[[User:T'Mar/historybox| T'Mar's History Sandbox]]
*USS Gemini Newsletter Team Initial Facilitator and contributing member; 11/2014- 12/2014 when the project was ended
*USS Apollo Mentor; 7/30/2013 to 2/2014
*USS Apollo Mentor; 7/30/2013 to 2/2014
*USS Gemini Mentor & Facilitator; 2/2014- Present
*USS Gemini Mentor & Facilitator; 2/2014- 7/2015
*USS Gemini Chat Facilitator; 2/2014- present
*USS Gemini Chat Facilitator; 2/2014- 3/2015
*[[Top_Sims_Contest_Judges| Top Sims Contest Judge]] USS Apollo representative; 9/1/2013 to 2/2014
*[[Top_Sims_Contest_Judges| Top Sims Contest Judge]] USS Apollo representative; 9/1/2013 to 2/2014
*[[Publicity_Team| Publicity Team]] Committee member/occasional contributing member; 7/28/2014- present
*[[Publicity_Team| Publicity Team]] Committee member/occasional contributing member; 7/28/2014- 11/25/2015
*[[Training_Team| Training Operations Team]] Trainer/Member; 10/9/2013- present
*[[Training_Team| Training Operations Team]] Trainer/Member; 10/9/2013- 12/19/2016
**My Character: [[/Jaina Webb|Jaina Webb]]
**My Character: [[/Jaina Webb|Jaina Webb]]
*[[Newsies_Team| Newsies Team]] Interviewee
*[[Newsies_Team| Newsies Team]] Interviewee
**Lower Decks interview: [http://starbase118.net/blog/2012/09/28/lower-decks-ensign-tmar/ Found Here]
**Lower Decks interview: [http://starbase118.net/blog/2012/09/28/lower-decks-ensign-tmar/ Found Here]


==IC Goals==
===OOC Timeline (Promotion and LOA dates)===
 
It is my ultimate goal to have T'Mar continue rising up the ranks. I have made Lieutenant Commander which was my main goal. I also had made my second goal of becoming an XO. I had to step down for personal reasons, but fully intend to return to that when RL allows me to and the fleet can provide me with that opportunity. For my next goal, I'd like to end up at Commander and eventually take on the role of Captain/Commanding Officer of my own ship. When I started simming with this group, I had much more time to invest due to my job at the time having tons of times I could write. For a short while there, I was in a position that would not even allow me to  check my email at lunch, and I was working about 50+ hours a week. This put me behind on my path to promotion, but I am now in a position where I can write during the day on my break and I am back on the right track to meet my goals. This also means I can focus on participating in more OOC activities to help the community as well. While I had to step back from the XO role, I have now been able to focus more on facilitating OOC groups which is a lot of fun for me.
 
I also want to delve more into T'Mar's internal conflict with the battle over logic or empathy. Vulcan or Betazoid. I have yet to decide if she will choose to accept her emotions, but that is the fun of writing for her. So far this indecisiveness has shown through her by making her take more and more risks. At some point I will have to make a decision and I think that time is coming soon.


If my work/life schedule will allow it, I would love to have one of my PNPC's become my main character and switch T'Mar to a secondary when I take a command of my own. I love playing T'Mar, but I feel like I would have a better grasp of command from a different character. I also feel like it would be a refreshing change.
*Ship: [[USS Apollo]] 238908.21
*Main Character: T'Mar 238908.21
*Ensign: 238908.21
*LtJG: 238909.30
*Lieutenant: 239004.14
*LtCmdr: 239008.16
*Ship: [[USS Gemini]] 239102.01
*First Officer: 239102.01 - 239203.06
*LOA: 239204.29 - 239206.15
*Ship: [[USS Constitution-B]] 239207.11
*First Officer: 239208.14 - 239404.12
*Commander: 239307.09
*Main Character: Sarah Mason 239311.16
*Main Character: T'Mar 239404.17
*LOA: 239405.08 - 239408.23
*LOA: 239409.20 - 239411.26
*Main Character: Sarah Mason 239411.26
*LOA: 239501.11 - 239505.10
*LOA: 239608.13 - 239610.18
*LOA: 239702.19 - 239704.24
*LOA: 239804.29 - 239807.24
*Main Character: Cassiopeia Shanta 239807.24
*LOA: 239810.16 - 240008.21 (LOA total to date here- 38 months)
*Main Character: Eleanor Park 240008.21

Latest revision as of 00:48, 15 July 2024

At a Glance

Name: Mel

Location: Alabama, USA

Age: 37

Occupation: Human Resources

Hobbies: Reading and latch-hooking

Joined UFOP: August 2012

Writer ID: A238908T10

About Me

Generic Information

Here's where I guess I get to tell you all more about me. In case you were curious or something. I was born and raised in the Metro DC area. My dad brought me up with Star Trek so I have been watching since I can remember. I also enjoy writing. My first college degree was in Liberal Arts; I studied Poetry and Music before switching over to Business. I have a MBA in HR and currently I work in Human Resources for a Behavioral Healthcare company. I have been vegetarian for over 10 years and was vegan for 3, which resulted in much joking from my friends on the Apollo.

Those who know me, whether in RL or in OOC chats, know that I have a strange (to put it nicely) sense of humor, which is a genetic trait apparently because everyone on the one side of my family has the very same sense of humor.

My History with Gaming

I have been big on gaming since I was a kid. Growing up, my friends and I created the equivalent of what I now know is known as LARPing. We each had our own characters and we would make up quests that we would play out. From there I got into video games. I am a Nintendo-girl myself, so I played a lot of Zelda, DK, Mario, etc. and I never really moved on from there. I still play the old school games instead of the newer ones. I dabbled with computer games, but I typically would play on my friends computers and not my own (system requirement issues, ftl). I also enjoy Table Top games.

Back in the 90s, one of my Trekker friends told me about this thing called a "PBeM" for Star Trek. Soon after I was an addict. I was on three different ships at one point (fun fact: one of the characters was named T'Mar and had striking similarities to my SB118 character of the same name, although she was not Betazoid). I was a Captain on one of the ships, however the ships soon reached the common fate for many of those ships: one by one the members started leaving and soon there was not enough to keep the ships going. In the early 2000s, one of the ships (the USS Cavalry- formerly part of the BravoFleet) attempted a comeback and it gave me a taste for the simming world once more, but about a year later it had reached the same fate again. Despite my desire to play with that group that had become like family, I knew a third attempt would never happen. Around that point I was in high school anyways and switched over to gaming and shenanigans with my friends. The PBeM world quickly faded away as I began growing up and thinking about my future.

Fast forward to the summer of 2012. I was working at two different internships, both of which had a lot of down time, due to being unpaid work. While I was working, I realized that my typing was much slower than the days where I was posting on three ships for fun (I averaged well over 100wpm back then). It started as an idea to help me increase typing speed, but I quickly realized I missed the action and even more, the friends that came with PBeMs. A quick google search brought me to UFOP and without taking any time to talk myself out of it, I signed up. There would be no going back from there...

My Characters

Current Playing Characters

PNPCs

Former Characters

  • MSNPC Aida Midasti- Town Healer on Planet Eridea
  • MSNPC Commander Koval- Rogue Klingon extraordinaire
  • MSNPC Lt.Cmdr. Sarah Mason (started as a MSNPC, then eventually became a PC and now PNPC)
  • PNPC Lt. (JG) Loleh Rejock
  • PNPC Lt. Katelynn Meyer
  • PNPC Christina "Mama" Mason

OOC Record

OOC Contributions

Current Contributions

Previous Contributions

OOC Timeline (Promotion and LOA dates)

  • Ship: USS Apollo 238908.21
  • Main Character: T'Mar 238908.21
  • Ensign: 238908.21
  • LtJG: 238909.30
  • Lieutenant: 239004.14
  • LtCmdr: 239008.16
  • Ship: USS Gemini 239102.01
  • First Officer: 239102.01 - 239203.06
  • LOA: 239204.29 - 239206.15
  • Ship: USS Constitution-B 239207.11
  • First Officer: 239208.14 - 239404.12
  • Commander: 239307.09
  • Main Character: Sarah Mason 239311.16
  • Main Character: T'Mar 239404.17
  • LOA: 239405.08 - 239408.23
  • LOA: 239409.20 - 239411.26
  • Main Character: Sarah Mason 239411.26
  • LOA: 239501.11 - 239505.10
  • LOA: 239608.13 - 239610.18
  • LOA: 239702.19 - 239704.24
  • LOA: 239804.29 - 239807.24
  • Main Character: Cassiopeia Shanta 239807.24
  • LOA: 239810.16 - 240008.21 (LOA total to date here- 38 months)
  • Main Character: Eleanor Park 240008.21
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