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Tigger and Anna, circa 1998

Tigger, better known to many by the pseudonym Ann Veronica Simon stated on her birth-certificate, was Woozle's close friend and confidant from 1981 until her death, and much-beloved godmother to Anna Nikola. As one of Jenny's close friends in the CFS middle school circa 1979, she was a founding member of the "Goresum Foursum" (along with Cindy S. and Erika J.)

Woozle gave her the name "Tigger" – in commemoration of her eternally energetic and bouncy nature – while they were both at Brown, which she attended as an undergraduate from 1985-1989 and where she became a member of the Delta Psi chapter at King House.

She had almost completed graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley at the time of her death; she was granted her degree posthumously. The Ann Veronica Simon Outstanding Dissertation Award (see) was established at the LSU Women's & Gender Studies department in her honor not long after. (See 2006 Ann Simon fundraising letter for details)

Some original Tigger phrases:

Whatever wiggles your guinea-pig.
Please kiss your own spaghetti.

Details

Born: February 15, 1968 (Valentine's Boxing Day)
Died: February 24, 2003, Berkeley, CA; brain/spinal cancer (glioblastoma)

Links

Brian's page about Ann's cancer (was): good photos of Tigger in life, and the story of a heartbreaking struggle
~~The Tigger Appreciation Society: from the Hypertwins, updated on Tigger's last living birthday.~~ this page needs to be resurrected; I still have the files.
Ann's Writings:
An obituary in alt.obituaries

Hedgehogs! dee dee dee!

~ The Ann Veronica Simon Memorial Collection of Hedgehog Miscellany ~

Cancer Stuff

Projects to fight cancer via distributed computing

Folding@home: based at Stanford
WorldCommunityGrid: several projects, including cancer

Medical Progress

2008-02-21 Yale Lab Engineers Virus That Can Kill Deadly Brain Tumors: is this a cure, just a few years too late? "A laboratory-engineered virus that can find its way through the vascular system and kill deadly brain tumors has been developed by Yale School of Medicine researchers..."
2006-07-19 Possible Birthplace Of Malignant Brain Tumors Identified: "...suggests a possible treatment for ... malignant gliomas"
2006-01-19 Mobile phone use not linked to increased risk of glioma brain tumours: Tigger used a cell phone heavily in the last 5 or so years of her life, and I always wondered.
2006-01-10 Researchers ... uncover clue to explain invasive brain tumors: glioblastoma multiformae is the type of cancer Tigger had

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+[[File:TIGGER AND ANNA AGAPE.WEB.JPG|right|200px|thumb|[[:category:Tigger and Anna|Tigger and Anna]], circa 1998]]
+[[Tigger]], better known to many by the pseudonym '''Ann Veronica Simon''' stated on her birth-certificate, was [[Woozle]]'s close friend and confidant from {{lc|1981}} until her death, and  much-beloved godmother to [[Anna Nikola]].  As one of [[Jenny]]'s close friends in the [[CFS]] middle school circa {{lc|1979}}, she was a founding member of the "Goresum Foursum" (along with Cindy S. and Erika J.)
+Woozle gave her the name "Tigger" &ndash; in commemoration of her eternally energetic and bouncy nature &ndash; while they were both at Brown, which she attended as an undergraduate from {{lc|1985}}-{{lc|1989}} and where she became a member of the Delta Psi chapter at [[King House]].
+She had almost completed graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley at the time of her death; she was granted her degree posthumously. The Ann Veronica Simon Outstanding Dissertation Award ([https://www.lsu.edu/hss/wgs/about_us/wgsawards.php see]) was established at the LSU Women's & Gender Studies department in her honor not long after. (See [[2006 Ann Simon fundraising letter]] for details)
+Some original Tigger phrases:
+* Whatever wiggles your guinea-pig.
+* Please kiss your own spaghetti.
 ==Details==
-*'''Name:''' Ann Veronica Simon
+*'''Born:''' {{date|1968-02-15|February 15, 1968}} (Valentine's [[Wikipedia:Boxing Day|Boxing Day]])
-*'''Born:''' February 15, [[1968]] (Valentine's [[Wikipedia:Boxing Day|Boxing Day]])
+*'''Died:''' {{date|2003-02-24|February 24, 2003}}, {{yp|Berkeley, CA}}; brain/spinal [[htyp:cancer|cancer]] ({{l/wp|glioblastoma}})
-*'''Died:''' February 24, [[2003]], {{yp|Berkeley, CA}}; brain/spinal cancer
 ==Related Articles==
 * The [[:Category:Tigger|Tigger category]] has photos
+* [[Woozle/Tigger|Woozle writes about Tigger]]
-==Notes==
+* '''2007.02''' Ann wrote the first two lines (perhaps more; not sure) and inspired the overall verbal feel of the song [[Your Brilliant Career]], a rough draft of which is now available for free download (MP3).
-Ann was known also as Tigger, due to her eternally energetic and bouncy nature. She was [[Woozle]]'s close friend and confidant from 1982 until her death, and  much-beloved godmother to [[Anna Nikola]]. She was also a good friend of [[Jenny Hall|Jenny]]'s -- one of the original "Goresum Foursum" (along with Cindy S. and Erika J.) in the [[CFS]] middle school.
-She attended undergraduate school at Brown University from 1985-1989, where she joined [[King House]].
-Ann had almost completed graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley at the time of her death; she was granted her degree posthumously. The Ann Veronica Simon Outstanding Gender Studies Dissertation Award was established in her honor not long after. (See [[2006 Ann Simon fundraising letter]] for details)
-Ann is the originator of the phrase "Whatever wiggles your guinea-pig."
 ==Links==
-* [http://bulkowski.org/avsCancer/ Brian's page about Ann's cancer]: good photos of Tigger in life
+* [http://web.archive.org/web/20090215160739/http://bulkowski.org/avsCancer/ Brian's page about Ann's cancer] ([http://bulkowski.org/avsCancer/ was]): good photos of Tigger in life, and the story of a heartbreaking struggle
-* [http://hypertwins.org/tigger/ The Tigger Appreciation Society]: from the Hypertwins, updated on Tigger's last living birthday.
+* <s>[http://hypertwins.org/tigger/ The Tigger Appreciation Society]: from the Hypertwins, updated on Tigger's last living birthday.</s> this page needs to be resurrected; I still have the files.
 * '''Ann's Writings''':
-** [http://www.satri.org/pubs/af150/vocabbio.html Excerpts from ''A Biography of My Vocabulary'']
+** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130617003651/http://www.satri.org/pubs/af150/vocabbio.html Excerpts from ''A Biography of My Vocabulary'']
-** [http://www.satri.org/pubs/af150/older.html Poem for an Older Woman]
+** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130616232516/http://www.satri.org/pubs/af150/older.html Poem for an Older Woman]
-** [http://www.corpse.org/issue_8/broken_news/simon.htm An Unauthorized Glossary of my Goddaughter's Vocabulary]
+** [[An Unauthorized Glossary of my Goddaughter's Vocabulary]]
 * [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/c3cb68ed2663d09b/a049f248fc793b1e?lnk=st&q=Ann+Veronica&rnum=13 An obituary] in alt.obituaries
+===Hedgehogs! dee dee dee!===
+~ The Ann Veronica Simon Memorial Collection of Hedgehog Miscellany ~
+* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HjATD1imGc True Facts About The Hedgehog]
+* <s>[http://thorog.livejournal.com/416470.html Thorog]</s>
+* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ21hh-MKlo Hedgehog Video]
+==Cancer Stuff==
 ===Projects to fight cancer via distributed computing===
 * [http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ Folding@home]: based at Stanford
 * [http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/viewJoinNow.do WorldCommunityGrid]: several projects, including cancer
+===Medical Progress===
-==News Tidbits==
+* '''2008-02-21''' [http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/08-02-21-02.all.html Yale Lab Engineers Virus That Can Kill Deadly Brain Tumors]: is this a cure, just a few years too late? "A laboratory-engineered virus that can find its way through the vascular system and kill deadly brain tumors has been developed by Yale School of Medicine researchers..."
 * '''2006-07-19''' [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060720104441.htm Possible Birthplace Of Malignant Brain Tumors Identified]: "...suggests a possible treatment for ... malignant gliomas"
 * '''2006-01-19''' [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/bmj-mpu011806.php Mobile phone use not linked to increased risk of glioma brain tumours]: Tigger used a cell phone heavily in the last 5 or so years of her life, and I always wondered.
 * '''2006-01-10''' [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/vumc-rav011006.php Researchers ... uncover clue to explain invasive brain tumors]: glioblastoma multiformae is the type of cancer Tigger had
+[[Category:Friends|Ann Veronica Simon]]
+[[Category:Memorials|Ann Veronica Simon]]