- I am young for all I've done. I've lived in two countries and four (soon to be five) states; visited fourteen other countries; attended three primary schools, two middle schools, a junior high, and two high schools; attended one university, lived at two, and worked at an additional one; earned two diplomas with two degrees on the way and plans for earning two more; this and much else I have done without yet reaching legal drinking age in my home country. In fact, I'll be a graduate student before I'm allowed to drink here.
- I am a writer. Or, at least, I fancy myself to be one. My first novel was written at 14, though it's currently being rewritten from the ground-up. Two other novels are plotted out, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to find a fourth one lurking in the loose-leaf pages that are strewn about my room.
- Despite what the MPAA has to say about college students and piracy, I own more than 50 DVDs and am a regular at my university's Film Society.
- I am a fanatic when it comes to The Frames. Well over a gigabyte of my harddrive is dedicated to them, and I don't regret it the least bit.
- Other fanaticisms worth mentioning: Mozilla Firefox, {whisperback}, Discover magazine, Google, and poking my friends.
- All but two of the photos in the blog's banners were taken by me. Of the two I didn't take, both were taken by my parents.
- My school district tried to force me out of kindergarten. It didn't work. However, during the first week of class, I received a warning and did not receive a smiley face sticker when I left. I informed my mother when I got home from school that I was quitting school and joining the circus as a trapeze artist.
- That was also the week my little sister was born. Coincidence? I think not.
- When I stood at the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, I waved so that the assistant principle of the secondary school where I'd been teaching would see me from the top of the dining hall.
- After eight years as a Girl Scout, I can only remember how to tie one knot. I find this shameful.
- Although I share my religious denomination with President George W. Bush, we hardly agree on what it means to be Christian. Actually, there seems to be very little area where we agree on anything. We have both agreed that this country is called the United States of America, though he sometimes lapses into the habit of referring to it as 'Texas'.
- When I'm in the South, I'm accused of being a Yankee. When I'm in the North, I'm accused of being a Southerner. When asked "Where are you from?", I answer: "The U.S."
- I think Shakespeare's Hamlet is just as funny as it is tragic. If not more funny.
- I have enough complete strangers talking about me at my university that I may as well let a few complete strangers on the Internet join the fun.
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Well, here we are: a shiny, new layout; a shiny, new URL; and a shiny, new category heading to go with it all. Sometimes I think I'm insane for trying to maintain as many sites and blogs as I do, but really, it all comes down to an obsession with control. I like control. Lots of people like control. Maybe I try to keep firm control on my online identity because I feel I have little control in my offline life, but, honestly, that sounds like literary mumbo-jumbo coming from an almost-English major, and it's not a style I'm keen on.
The point of the exercise, of course, is to welcome you, entertain you for a few minutes, and hopefully woo you into inserting my RSS feed into your favorite news aggregator because I, like virtually every other blogger, enjoy attention. A flaw, to be sure, but hopefully not a tragic one. (I could talk about the tragic flaw(s) of Anakin Skywalker in Episode III, but that would get things off on the wrong foot, I fear.)
Instead, I suppose, I'll indulge in some introduction, though I imagine the few people who will see this already know this as well as much else about me. I'll try to be random, I promise.
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