oh, procrastination.
Dec. 6th, 2005 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Trying to work on one of my essays for the term. Failing miserably. I'm never able to pull these sorts of things together until the night before, really. So. In the spirit of procrastination, that Ten Things You Should Probably Know About Me meme thing.
1. The basics: female, aged twenty, on the short side, of average weight and fairly bland appearance.
2. I'm in my third year of college at the University of Chicago. Technically. Except for the part where I'm spending this school year studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland. I periodically note my misadventures among the Irish in this LJ, but I've settled in a bit more lately, so there's been less to report. Also, I have no intention of going to grad school, as I'm quite sick of academia already and look forward to actually going out into the real world and working and stuff.
3. I'm majoring in Theater and Performance Studies. No, I'm not a ditzy actress-wannabe. No, I don't even want to be an actress, although I enjoy performing. I'd like to direct -- stage, not screen -- and maybe someday start up a nice little theater company of my own. We'll see how that works out.
4. My father is a not-very-religious Episcopalian, my mother an atheist Jew. I identify myself as Jewish because the culture fascinates me, but I'm really an agnostic. This is fairly important to me, and while I believe the existence or nonexistence of God cannot now and will never be proven, I will defend another person's freedom of religion until I'm blue in the face. Unless, of course, they think that their God approves of narrow-mindedness and discrimination, in which case, fuck 'em.
5. I'm honestly not sure about my own sexual orientation. I identify as bi, because that's easier than explaining all the shades of grey in my sexuality. In general, I tend to lean more towards straight than gay, and I've been with my boyfriend for almost two years now.
6. I'm a storyteller, and I love hearing stories told. This is where my love of theater comes in -- for whatever reason, that form of storytelling fascinates me more than any other, and I worship Stephen Sondheim and Tom Stoppard. But I also love film and the written word. It's all good.
7. I have a flirty sort of relationship with fandom. I alternate between being all fandom, all the time, and then going for several weeks or months with little to no involvement in it. It generally depends on what's going on in my Real Life. I'm interested in several fandoms, but I tend to fixate on one at a time. Right now, it's Harry Potter.
8. I was born and raised in the heart of New York City. I still say I live in Greenwich Village, although I only actually live with my parents for a month or so out of the year. No matter where I wind up, I will always consider myself a New Yorker, and always think NYC is the greatest city in the world. Even if I can never afford to move back.
9. I tend to be very quiet and shy around people I don't know well, and then I'm sad because I have no friends. It's a tragic cycle. It also means I tend to place a much higher value on my friendships than the people I consider myself close to. This also makes me sad. So when it comes to interpersonal relations, I have some self-esteem issues.
10. But other than the interpersonal thing, I'm a fairly good judge of myself. I know what I'm capable of, and take pride in it; I also know my weaknesses and failings, and try to improve them. For the most part, I'm in good mental health. Not that I don't get depressed or whiny or self-deprecating -- and that tends to be the sort of stuff I post on LJ, tragically -- but I'm fairly emotionally stable, in general. I've gone through a bit of a rough spot recently, with the whole adjusting-to-life-in-a-foreign-country-where-I-have-no-friends thing, but thankfully, that's the exception to the rule.
1. The basics: female, aged twenty, on the short side, of average weight and fairly bland appearance.
2. I'm in my third year of college at the University of Chicago. Technically. Except for the part where I'm spending this school year studying abroad in Dublin, Ireland. I periodically note my misadventures among the Irish in this LJ, but I've settled in a bit more lately, so there's been less to report. Also, I have no intention of going to grad school, as I'm quite sick of academia already and look forward to actually going out into the real world and working and stuff.
3. I'm majoring in Theater and Performance Studies. No, I'm not a ditzy actress-wannabe. No, I don't even want to be an actress, although I enjoy performing. I'd like to direct -- stage, not screen -- and maybe someday start up a nice little theater company of my own. We'll see how that works out.
4. My father is a not-very-religious Episcopalian, my mother an atheist Jew. I identify myself as Jewish because the culture fascinates me, but I'm really an agnostic. This is fairly important to me, and while I believe the existence or nonexistence of God cannot now and will never be proven, I will defend another person's freedom of religion until I'm blue in the face. Unless, of course, they think that their God approves of narrow-mindedness and discrimination, in which case, fuck 'em.
5. I'm honestly not sure about my own sexual orientation. I identify as bi, because that's easier than explaining all the shades of grey in my sexuality. In general, I tend to lean more towards straight than gay, and I've been with my boyfriend for almost two years now.
6. I'm a storyteller, and I love hearing stories told. This is where my love of theater comes in -- for whatever reason, that form of storytelling fascinates me more than any other, and I worship Stephen Sondheim and Tom Stoppard. But I also love film and the written word. It's all good.
7. I have a flirty sort of relationship with fandom. I alternate between being all fandom, all the time, and then going for several weeks or months with little to no involvement in it. It generally depends on what's going on in my Real Life. I'm interested in several fandoms, but I tend to fixate on one at a time. Right now, it's Harry Potter.
8. I was born and raised in the heart of New York City. I still say I live in Greenwich Village, although I only actually live with my parents for a month or so out of the year. No matter where I wind up, I will always consider myself a New Yorker, and always think NYC is the greatest city in the world. Even if I can never afford to move back.
9. I tend to be very quiet and shy around people I don't know well, and then I'm sad because I have no friends. It's a tragic cycle. It also means I tend to place a much higher value on my friendships than the people I consider myself close to. This also makes me sad. So when it comes to interpersonal relations, I have some self-esteem issues.
10. But other than the interpersonal thing, I'm a fairly good judge of myself. I know what I'm capable of, and take pride in it; I also know my weaknesses and failings, and try to improve them. For the most part, I'm in good mental health. Not that I don't get depressed or whiny or self-deprecating -- and that tends to be the sort of stuff I post on LJ, tragically -- but I'm fairly emotionally stable, in general. I've gone through a bit of a rough spot recently, with the whole adjusting-to-life-in-a-foreign-country-where-I-have-no-friends thing, but thankfully, that's the exception to the rule.