another day, a new life?
I’m a poster child for women and men who create journals, then abandon them. A poster child for those that write and pour their souls into a journal, then gradually fade away. Those who post their hearts, and then post nonsense. The pointless surveys, the random and junkie memes.
However, I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t a fan of the surveys. I am. A rather large fan of them, in fact. I have an interest in introspection.
But now, there’s a problem. It’s too soon for the memes, too soon for the random surveys. This is another entry, to me, but for this journal, this wordpress thing, it’s a first entry. So, where do I begin? Shall I tell you that my alias on this journal will be a simple L? That I am twenty years old, but I’ll be twenty-one by the end of this year, the year 2006? Do I tell you that my favorite books are The Count of Monte Cristo (though I will only read the 1000+ page, unabridged, version), The Princess Bride, and Harry Potter? That I have a passion for words, educational research, and the Grey’s Anatomy television show?
At any rate, I hope I’m telling you the right things, because you’re already reading at this point. I should go on to mention that I am a published writer, a student, a girlfriend, a family member, and a self-proclaimed dork. I write fiction. I can’t put it any plainer than that. My short stories and novels run from young adult fiction to science fiction to dark fantasy. It’s probably important to note that I’m struggling with a 2-year-long writing block, because I’m sure that particular problem will be mentioned from time to time. I am a student at a small, private college in Atlanta, Georgia. I am a girlfriend to, obviously, my boyfriend. We “officially” started dating March 14th, 2005. My family situation is complicated beyond belief. (Yes, I mean that quite literally.) My self-proclaimed dorkiness lies in my love of words and language, researching and learning new things, and a love of school. Particularly in my main fields of interest: Women’s Studies and Education. (Yes, I am a double major.) But I also have a love of studying Creative Writing, Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, Morality and Society, so on. And various other things. Including Sign Language, which I’m presently teaching myself to do.
I’m somewhat of a musical snob. Not in that I think the music I like is the best of all, but because it is hard for me to enjoy other types of music. I listen to mainly soft-rock/goth bands with female vocalists. My favorite band is Within Temptation, bar none. They are closely followed by Evanescence, and then followed by Leaves’ Eyes, After Forever, Epica, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, and Flowing Tears (somewhat).
I dislike religion. I enjoy studying religions, though. I identify as Agnostic, and hate overzealous religious freaks who enjoy shoving religion down my throat. If you name a religion, I will research it. Learns its basic principles, and perhaps adopt some of those principles for personal practice. This does not make me any set religion, however. Please do not make the mistake in thinking that it does.
I also dislike government. I’m very liberal in my beliefs, and I try to avoid allying myself with a party I don’t agree completely with. I don’t feel that either the Republican nor Democratic parties have much to offer me, and in several cases I ignore parties and just vote for who I feel I agree the most with. Suffice to say I did not vote for George Bush. I rather think of him as a pansied idiot who needs speech classes, but this is just my opinion.
Although I’ve also been told that I may very well have been kicked out of any government party. Not only am I completely non-religious, I also identify as pansexual. More often, I simply say “bisexual,” but that’s because few people understand pansexual and all it encompasses. I don’t believe there are only two genders, I don’t believe that there are only three types of sexuality. Pansexual simply means you don’t discriminate, at all. You don’t simply love men AND women, you love men, women, transgendered, anyone. To put it simply. Human beings are more than their physical entities (in my opinion), anyway.
But this shouldn’t matter to most of you. I am, as previously mentioned, a girlfriend. The girlfriend of a really great guy, in fact, that I have been dating since March 14, 2005. We have had our ups and downs just like any other couple, though perhaps harder hurdles to jump through as the relationship is long distance. But all the same, he is a source of a lot of smiles, laughter, and support for me, and I’m very happy with him.
And that is it about that. A general summary, one may say. There’s more to be said. There is always more to be said, but I prefer to write those entries along a one-or-two topic line. For example, I’ll write another entry, but talking specifically about my educational background and plans. Rather than dragging this out.
Yes. I am weird. Enjoy. ♥
