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exsequarSo the number of people watching this journal is approaching 300 - that's pretty mindboggling. There's a lot of you out there that I just don't really know! And you probably don't know me all that well either - I know how hard it is to try to glean RL details out of my journal. So I've decided to type up a brief description of who I am, just so you can get to know me a little better. And I'd love if you could do the same! Just tell me whatever you think is important about you. Basics are good (age, where you live, etc) but anything you'd want to tell me would be fabulous :)
So, hi! My name is Anne. I live in Connecticut, USA, but I go to school in Pennsylvania, USA, at Franklin and Marshall College. I'm 19 and a sophomore. I'm majoring in Chemistry (focus in biochemistry) and minoring in math. Just from that, you can tell that I'm a big numbers geek - numbers and molecules and all that whatnot just make sense to me, and are of most interest to me. I love English and writing too, but it's not really what I want to do with my life. I'm probably going to end up going into scientific research, but at this point who knows!
My plans for the immediate future: I've just been hired to do research for a chemistry professor here at my college for 10 weeks this summer. Then NEXT year, I'm going to be studying abroad at TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. Fuck yes, Ireland here I COME! *squee* I can't wait for that!
My parents have been divorced for about 5 and a half years. I have two younger siblings: Peter is almost 16 and Meredith is 12. I love my dad more than anyone else in the world. My family has lived in Connecticut since before I was born - I've never lived anywhere else. Our extended family is mostly spread between Ohio and Michigan, though, so I can't count the number of times we've made the 10 hour drive out there! I have two sets of aunts and uncles on each side, and several adorable little cousins ranging in age from 3 to 12.
I went to the same school from Kindergarten through 12th grade (for non Americans, that's age 5 to 17) because my dad worked there (since I was 1!) and we got a GIGANTIC tuition discount off the 25k they charged a year. It was a truly fantastic school, and I loved almost my entire experience there (except 7th grade - but that might have had to do with adolescent angst more than the school :P). I had the most wonderful high school education - I loved my teachers, and they have shaped who I am so dramatically. I'm so grateful that I got to have that experience.
I've never had a boyfriend. Not even close, really. And I've never been KISSED. *hides face* I felt I should share this as it's pretty important to who I am, heh. Usually I'm fine with it, but I'm getting a little desperate over here! Heh. Oh well. Patience, patience! Aaaand... moving on.
I love music. I love to sing. I've been in choirs pretty much all the time since middle school. I also had the unparalleled experience of playing Wendy in my high school's production of Peter Pan when I was a sophomore. That was... yeah. Truly amazing, and I'll never forget it. I played the piano for a few years but dropped it because... I can't commit to anything? Heh. I sometimes regret that, but not really.
In terms of music I LISTEN to, my interests kind of go all over the place. Right now (as in, at this very moment) I am rocking out to Metallica, hee. My musical tastes were largely shaped by my dad - I grew up listening to The Beatles, Soundgarden, XTC, REM, The B-52s, Midnight Oil, Genesis, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, David Bowie, and so on and so forth. I still love all those bands (especially Foo Fighters \o/) and my favorite music tends to be relatively hard rock. I have a thing for crunchy guitars - they get me all excited in my pants *g* But since I've gone to college and had a bit more freedom in terms of deciding what I listen to, my tastes have sort of spread out. I've acquired a taste for pretty acoustic guitar alternative stuff, with both male and female singers. I've also gotten into CLASSIC ROCK, thanks very much to Supernatural. I'm loving Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, Metallica, and Jimi Hendrix particularly. I had a BIG Fall Out Boy obsession period last year - I'm really not sure why. They're just FUN. Then I had a KANE obsession, because, homg, it's KANE! Never been that much into country before, but wow. Favorite band ever. Other bands I really like: K's Choice, Bush, Noe Venable, Benefits of Being Paranoid, Steve Carlson, Flyleaf, Breaking Benjamin, A Perfect Circle, Evanescence, Franz Ferdinand, Audioslave, Trapt, Something Corporate, Panic! At the Disco, Sarah McLachlan, Sneaker Pimps, and so on and so forth. (If you want me to upload any of this, btw, just ask!) Okay, I'll stop rambling about music.
I love to read. I don't get as much chance to lately as I would like, but when I was younger I was QUITE the bookworm. I just devoured them. I mostly tend towards fantasy and sci-fi literature. My favorite authors are Anne McCaffrey and Guy Gavriel Kay (who writes the most brilliant historical fantasy). I also have so much love for Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time, and, bizarrely, Clive Cussler, who's a popcorn action adventure writer who I've loved for years and years. I have such a crush on his protagonist, Dirk Pitt *g* Basically there's nothing I love more than curling up with a good fantasy story and losing myself in the characters and their world.
In terms of fandom and the internets and all that whatnot... I guess I got my start around 7th or 8th grade. My first foray was through Neopets and a guild (message board, essentially) there that I belonged to. It was based around Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books, and was a sort of silly RPG. I had lots of fun with my friends there. Then I transitioned into Race War Kingdoms, a text-based game where you clicked to kill monsters or chatted with people in the built in chat room. I was much more of a talker than anything *g* It wasn't fandom, but RWK and its successor Shimlar were how I first REALLY started meeting tons of people online. It was kind of how I survived the lonely angst of my adolescence - in these games, I was actually really popular and well-known, despite my youth, and that was such a huge boost of confidence to me. I even got to be a moderator for a while, though eventually I stepped down because I knew the ugly politics behind the scenes were just too much for me. But I made some wonderful friends through that, and I stayed there for a good three or four years. I've only really kept about three or four friends that I occasionally talk to from that, but it was a huge period of my life. Then I started veering into the world of television fandom, beginning with X-Files. At first I just read fanfiction. Then I found LJ about two years ago, joined, and inevitably got completely sucked in. My fandoms since, in sort of chronological order, have been Buffy, Harry Potter, Queer as Folk, Ewan McGregor, Star Wars (and its attendant RPS), Lost, Firefly, Boondock Saints, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars, SUPERNATURAL, Heroes, Angel, Dexter, Torchwood, and now Stargate Atlantis. I've always been very involved in slash (Remus/Sirius really being my first big slash pairing), now more than ever as you can tell ;)
Let's see... other things you might want to know about me... oh yeah, what I look like :) Let's show rather than tell, okay?
That's me in the middle, proud Browncoat! The darlings with me are![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mona1347 and quietdiscerning. This picture was taken at the awesomesauce WINCHESTERCON, at Nashville in October 2006. *nostalgic sigh* Good times.
Okay so - that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about me! But if you still have questions, feel free to ask, and again - tell me about yourselves! I want to knowww! :D
So, hi! My name is Anne. I live in Connecticut, USA, but I go to school in Pennsylvania, USA, at Franklin and Marshall College. I'm 19 and a sophomore. I'm majoring in Chemistry (focus in biochemistry) and minoring in math. Just from that, you can tell that I'm a big numbers geek - numbers and molecules and all that whatnot just make sense to me, and are of most interest to me. I love English and writing too, but it's not really what I want to do with my life. I'm probably going to end up going into scientific research, but at this point who knows!
My plans for the immediate future: I've just been hired to do research for a chemistry professor here at my college for 10 weeks this summer. Then NEXT year, I'm going to be studying abroad at TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. Fuck yes, Ireland here I COME! *squee* I can't wait for that!
My parents have been divorced for about 5 and a half years. I have two younger siblings: Peter is almost 16 and Meredith is 12. I love my dad more than anyone else in the world. My family has lived in Connecticut since before I was born - I've never lived anywhere else. Our extended family is mostly spread between Ohio and Michigan, though, so I can't count the number of times we've made the 10 hour drive out there! I have two sets of aunts and uncles on each side, and several adorable little cousins ranging in age from 3 to 12.
I went to the same school from Kindergarten through 12th grade (for non Americans, that's age 5 to 17) because my dad worked there (since I was 1!) and we got a GIGANTIC tuition discount off the 25k they charged a year. It was a truly fantastic school, and I loved almost my entire experience there (except 7th grade - but that might have had to do with adolescent angst more than the school :P). I had the most wonderful high school education - I loved my teachers, and they have shaped who I am so dramatically. I'm so grateful that I got to have that experience.
I've never had a boyfriend. Not even close, really. And I've never been KISSED. *hides face* I felt I should share this as it's pretty important to who I am, heh. Usually I'm fine with it, but I'm getting a little desperate over here! Heh. Oh well. Patience, patience! Aaaand... moving on.
I love music. I love to sing. I've been in choirs pretty much all the time since middle school. I also had the unparalleled experience of playing Wendy in my high school's production of Peter Pan when I was a sophomore. That was... yeah. Truly amazing, and I'll never forget it. I played the piano for a few years but dropped it because... I can't commit to anything? Heh. I sometimes regret that, but not really.
In terms of music I LISTEN to, my interests kind of go all over the place. Right now (as in, at this very moment) I am rocking out to Metallica, hee. My musical tastes were largely shaped by my dad - I grew up listening to The Beatles, Soundgarden, XTC, REM, The B-52s, Midnight Oil, Genesis, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, David Bowie, and so on and so forth. I still love all those bands (especially Foo Fighters \o/) and my favorite music tends to be relatively hard rock. I have a thing for crunchy guitars - they get me all excited in my pants *g* But since I've gone to college and had a bit more freedom in terms of deciding what I listen to, my tastes have sort of spread out. I've acquired a taste for pretty acoustic guitar alternative stuff, with both male and female singers. I've also gotten into CLASSIC ROCK, thanks very much to Supernatural. I'm loving Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, Metallica, and Jimi Hendrix particularly. I had a BIG Fall Out Boy obsession period last year - I'm really not sure why. They're just FUN. Then I had a KANE obsession, because, homg, it's KANE! Never been that much into country before, but wow. Favorite band ever. Other bands I really like: K's Choice, Bush, Noe Venable, Benefits of Being Paranoid, Steve Carlson, Flyleaf, Breaking Benjamin, A Perfect Circle, Evanescence, Franz Ferdinand, Audioslave, Trapt, Something Corporate, Panic! At the Disco, Sarah McLachlan, Sneaker Pimps, and so on and so forth. (If you want me to upload any of this, btw, just ask!) Okay, I'll stop rambling about music.
I love to read. I don't get as much chance to lately as I would like, but when I was younger I was QUITE the bookworm. I just devoured them. I mostly tend towards fantasy and sci-fi literature. My favorite authors are Anne McCaffrey and Guy Gavriel Kay (who writes the most brilliant historical fantasy). I also have so much love for Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time, and, bizarrely, Clive Cussler, who's a popcorn action adventure writer who I've loved for years and years. I have such a crush on his protagonist, Dirk Pitt *g* Basically there's nothing I love more than curling up with a good fantasy story and losing myself in the characters and their world.
In terms of fandom and the internets and all that whatnot... I guess I got my start around 7th or 8th grade. My first foray was through Neopets and a guild (message board, essentially) there that I belonged to. It was based around Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books, and was a sort of silly RPG. I had lots of fun with my friends there. Then I transitioned into Race War Kingdoms, a text-based game where you clicked to kill monsters or chatted with people in the built in chat room. I was much more of a talker than anything *g* It wasn't fandom, but RWK and its successor Shimlar were how I first REALLY started meeting tons of people online. It was kind of how I survived the lonely angst of my adolescence - in these games, I was actually really popular and well-known, despite my youth, and that was such a huge boost of confidence to me. I even got to be a moderator for a while, though eventually I stepped down because I knew the ugly politics behind the scenes were just too much for me. But I made some wonderful friends through that, and I stayed there for a good three or four years. I've only really kept about three or four friends that I occasionally talk to from that, but it was a huge period of my life. Then I started veering into the world of television fandom, beginning with X-Files. At first I just read fanfiction. Then I found LJ about two years ago, joined, and inevitably got completely sucked in. My fandoms since, in sort of chronological order, have been Buffy, Harry Potter, Queer as Folk, Ewan McGregor, Star Wars (and its attendant RPS), Lost, Firefly, Boondock Saints, Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars, SUPERNATURAL, Heroes, Angel, Dexter, Torchwood, and now Stargate Atlantis. I've always been very involved in slash (Remus/Sirius really being my first big slash pairing), now more than ever as you can tell ;)
Let's see... other things you might want to know about me... oh yeah, what I look like :) Let's show rather than tell, okay?
That's me in the middle, proud Browncoat! The darlings with me are
mona1347 and quietdiscerning. This picture was taken at the awesomesauce WINCHESTERCON, at Nashville in October 2006. *nostalgic sigh* Good times.Okay so - that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about me! But if you still have questions, feel free to ask, and again - tell me about yourselves! I want to knowww! :D
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Date: 2007-01-21 10:52 pm (UTC)Is there anything you think is missing from this? It was all very stream of consciousness!
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