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cereta says, when i first got here, my flist was made up of people i knew -- all of them fannish or associated with fannish people in some manner. i may be unusual in that a large percentage of the additions since then have been people i knew from what we so often call Real Life; i kept the boxes separate for a long time, and there's a degree to which i still do, but that degree is a lot less than it was. i did the "100 things about me" meme yonks ago (it's a screen or two back under the introspection tag), but those are a hundred things i flatter myself by thinking people may find interesting. here, then, are ten things i figure to be minimal information about me, which it is reasonable to expect people to know who only know me from reading the unlocked bits of this LJ.
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0. woman.
see, that's how for granted i take it; it didn't even occur to me to mention it, but i suppose it is relevant.]
1. fannish.
i am the sort of media consumer who engages with the product (text, film, whatever). that's been known to make people roll their eyes, but sfw?
2. single.
well, i bitch about itsometimes a lot. it's not, as i've been explaining at some length in counseling a young friend of mine through a difficult time, that any relationship is better than no relationship (cue jeremy goodwin from sports night: "I can understand a woman thinking any relationship is better than nothing. I just can't understand a woman thinking she's got nothing."), so i'm not holding auditions or anything. but i do (and, young friend, take note) admit that often -- sometimes it seems like more often than not -- i wish there were someone who, when something good happened to him, wanted to tell me about it before telling anyone else. for example. (the fact that i have someone in mind both -a- contributes to the non-audition-holding and -b- doesn't really help at all. but mainly i can deal with that.)
3. heterosexual.
in the communities where i spend a lot of my time, this turns out to be relatively rare. who knew?
4. all grown up.
i am of age to drive, vote, drink, rent a car, and be elected to the US House of Representatives. this frankly startles me from time to time when i realize i still think of myself as just a kid. (my parents' neighbors across the street, who have an eighteen-month-old, are younger than i am, which sets my head spinning. am i A Neighbor Kid, when i come home to visit? almost certainly not; i'm the neighbors' grown daughter. but wait, does that mean my parents are The Older Couple Across The Street? gah!) i am not of age to be elected to the US Senate, nor to be elected president.
5. not the healthiest person.
i do seem to get sick quite a lot. this is due to two things: 1, i do have a weaker immune system than some people, thanks to a Virus Not Unlike Mono that hit me in my senior year of college and ran roughshod over my white blood cells. and, 2, i complain pretty enthusiastically and don't often talk about being healthy, so it seems that i'm more unwell a lot more often than i am. also, though, i've got probably 70 pounds or so it wouldn't kill me to lose, and so like most modern women i'm not as happy with my body as i have the idea i could be.
6. geek (student).
i'm presently working, or more accurately avoiding doing the work, on what i hope will be the third of four degrees, all in linguistics. i geek around about language quite a lot. this degree will have a Ph in it, which is a start, but of course the real prize is the D.
7. geek (writer).
see #1. my interaction with texts and things, and my geekery with language, often results in my trying to use words to build stuff. i've had some success (or at least some moderate local acclaim).
8. geek (singer).
soprano 1, and, i've been given to understand, a pretty good one. genuinely and literally amateur, though -- it's for love that i do it. i sometimes wonder if i'd enjoy it as much if it were my job.
9. geek (sportswoman).
curling!
10. US citizen (in exile, at the moment), leaning to the left.
i'm not always wild about the democratic party, but i tend to sympathize with them more often and more readily than with the republican party, so more often than not they get my vote. i am absolutely not a straight-ticket party-line voter, and often get frustrated by those who are or seem to be, but i generally try to keep that to myself. i sometimes talk about politics or political issues here, though i try not to speak disrespectfully even of people for whom i have little or no respect at all; one tries to maintain some respect for the office, after all.
cereta says, when i first got here, my flist was made up of people i knew -- all of them fannish or associated with fannish people in some manner. i may be unusual in that a large percentage of the additions since then have been people i knew from what we so often call Real Life; i kept the boxes separate for a long time, and there's a degree to which i still do, but that degree is a lot less than it was. i did the "100 things about me" meme yonks ago (it's a screen or two back under the introspection tag), but those are a hundred things i flatter myself by thinking people may find interesting. here, then, are ten things i figure to be minimal information about me, which it is reasonable to expect people to know who only know me from reading the unlocked bits of this LJ.[eta:
0. woman.
see, that's how for granted i take it; it didn't even occur to me to mention it, but i suppose it is relevant.]
1. fannish.
i am the sort of media consumer who engages with the product (text, film, whatever). that's been known to make people roll their eyes, but sfw?
2. single.
well, i bitch about it
3. heterosexual.
in the communities where i spend a lot of my time, this turns out to be relatively rare. who knew?
4. all grown up.
i am of age to drive, vote, drink, rent a car, and be elected to the US House of Representatives. this frankly startles me from time to time when i realize i still think of myself as just a kid. (my parents' neighbors across the street, who have an eighteen-month-old, are younger than i am, which sets my head spinning. am i A Neighbor Kid, when i come home to visit? almost certainly not; i'm the neighbors' grown daughter. but wait, does that mean my parents are The Older Couple Across The Street? gah!) i am not of age to be elected to the US Senate, nor to be elected president.
5. not the healthiest person.
i do seem to get sick quite a lot. this is due to two things: 1, i do have a weaker immune system than some people, thanks to a Virus Not Unlike Mono that hit me in my senior year of college and ran roughshod over my white blood cells. and, 2, i complain pretty enthusiastically and don't often talk about being healthy, so it seems that i'm more unwell a lot more often than i am. also, though, i've got probably 70 pounds or so it wouldn't kill me to lose, and so like most modern women i'm not as happy with my body as i have the idea i could be.
6. geek (student).
i'm presently working, or more accurately avoiding doing the work, on what i hope will be the third of four degrees, all in linguistics. i geek around about language quite a lot. this degree will have a Ph in it, which is a start, but of course the real prize is the D.
7. geek (writer).
see #1. my interaction with texts and things, and my geekery with language, often results in my trying to use words to build stuff. i've had some success (or at least some moderate local acclaim).
8. geek (singer).
soprano 1, and, i've been given to understand, a pretty good one. genuinely and literally amateur, though -- it's for love that i do it. i sometimes wonder if i'd enjoy it as much if it were my job.
9. geek (sportswoman).
curling!
10. US citizen (in exile, at the moment), leaning to the left.
i'm not always wild about the democratic party, but i tend to sympathize with them more often and more readily than with the republican party, so more often than not they get my vote. i am absolutely not a straight-ticket party-line voter, and often get frustrated by those who are or seem to be, but i generally try to keep that to myself. i sometimes talk about politics or political issues here, though i try not to speak disrespectfully even of people for whom i have little or no respect at all; one tries to maintain some respect for the office, after all.
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