Tigger

Tigger and Anna, circa 1998

Details

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

Related Articles

• The Tigger category has photos
• 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).

Notes

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 and thereby 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 at LSU in her honor not long after. (See 2006 Ann Simon fundraising letter for details)

Some original Ann phrases:

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

Links

• Brian's page about Ann's cancer: good photos of Tigger in life
• 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:
  • Excerpts from A Biography of My Vocabulary
  • Poem for an Older Woman
  • An Unauthorized Glossary of my Goddaughter's Vocabulary
• An obituary in alt.obituaries

Projects to fight cancer via distributed computing

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

Hedgehogs! dee dee dee!

• Thorog

News Tidbits

• 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