meme from x_mog

[foolish_m0rtal]

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.

First Name
Waay distinctive and Indian for me to remain anonymous around here. Those that need to know already know, I suppose. ^_^;;

Age
19, will be twenty in January. Wow, I feel totally old. TWENTY. Is it really morbid that I once thought I wouldn’t live past eighteen? Just because I can be sort of a fatalist?


Location
Virginia. I also go to school there. Right now I’m at the University of Virginia Engineering school, which is why I disappear from the internet for long periods of time.

Occupation
Geek/ toiling computer engineering/science student.

Partner?
No. Theoretically I’m bi, but I don’t ever see myself in a relationship. I’m so used to having the faded unrequited crush or just being friends with people I know I should rationally find attractive that it would just feel weird doing the whole ‘relationship’ thing now.

Kids
I always feel like the way I behave should make me get along with kids really well. (Last week, FM runs down the stairs to show a friend the cool leaves she found on her way home) But when I’m actually around them, I’m very awkward. I don’t believe in talking down to them in that sugary fake-enthusiastic voice most adults I know adopt whenever they talk with children. I think that’s ridiculous. They’re young, not stupid. My little cousin adores me for some reason, probably because I give her the time of day and make her things when she’s bored, like origami stick puppets when our families are eating at Starbucks.

Brothers/Sisters
None. Only child with (hopefully) none of the stereotypes. My parents worked full time after I got old enough to stay at home by myself, so that might explain why I have a strange imagination and am also painfully regimented/independent.

Pets
None. I think after I start living by myself, I want a cat named Rodney or Kilroy.

List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life
1) Differential Equations (tally it up, Skunky) and Electric Circuits (GAH, this is the first time in my life I’ve had no idea what the hell is happening in a class)
2) Eating and sleeping regularly after ten days of munching on random things when hungry, sleeping about 2-4 hours a night, and studying like hell. And memorizing music, since my choir's holiday concert is the week after Thanksgiving Break.
3) Nujabes/The Pillows. I’ve become strangely addicted to them even though I have been watching FLCL and Samurai Champloo for many years.
4) J-Term: To catch up on classes (you take ONE out of order, and it screws up EVERYTHING) I’m taking STS over J-term. Somehow, I got into History of Wine, which sounds Arts & Science-y but counts for Engineering credit, which really makes me happy. I can’t wait for J-term now.
5) I dunno. Anime club is having a secret santa gift exchange, and we’re supposed to stalk our targets to find the perfect gift. As I’m stalking my person, I’m wondering what my stalker is finding. NO, not my fanfiction!! It IS public knowledge that I have a journal, and as you people know from the yuri chalkboard incident, our vice president has a link to it over at HIS blog. So naturally the entire anime club knows about it. (shit)

Parents
My dad and I get along very well. We’re both engineers and like the same kind of movies. We often have the same kind of humour and share a lot of inside jokes, which annoys my mother. I don’t think my dad has a lot of friends here, and he considers me as ‘one of the guys’ that he can just hang out with. Whenever I’m away, he complains that my mom doesn’t get his jokes and falls asleep through the movies.

My mother works in accounts payable and majored in accounting/economics. I really do like my mother a lot, and I think the fights we have stem from the fact that we have the same neuroses. We’re both obsessive about cleaning, keeping things in order, and scheduling everything. I mean, we just got angry at each other on the phone a few hours ago, because SHE thought I was coming home one day, and I thought SHE was coming to pick me up another day, so we scheduled things around our assumptions and then found out we had to reschedule everything again. This is how we are.

But she is very kind and forgives easily whenever I am less than polite. I always feel bad that she forgives me for all the mean things I do. I think people are destined to be cruel to the people that are closest to them. She always makes my favourite foods when I come home, and reassures me whenever I feel down on myself about engineering school. I don’t like crying around my dad, but I feel comfortable talking about my emotional problems with her. I usually talk to my dad about more technical problems like homework and class scheduling.

Who are some of your closest friends?
I don’t have many really close friends, even though I have tons and tons of friends in general because I know enough about a lot of subjects to be able to talk to anybody. (Jack of all trades, master of FAIL)

The only friend back home that I’ve kept in regular contact with after going to college is

hilandahalf

, which I think says something about how much I value our friendship. I have a lot of good friends in college, but not a lot of close ones. I’m close with some people in my suite, and I feel there is the potential for me to be closer to my friends in engineering school in the future. I was very close with a group of engineers I studied with last year, but this year we are all in different majors and see little of each other.

Online, my oldest friend is

obseletevulture

, who I’ve been friends with since…middle school? I feel I can tell people online more than I can tell people in real life. This shouldn’t make sense, but I think everyone here who has online friends understands why this is true. After getting sucked into the xxxHolic fandom, I’m happy to say I’ve grown closer to

x_mog

and have made new friends in that fandom, mostly from sheer geeking out. I’m looking forward to making friends in the stargate fandom, but I feel this happens more often when you write stories for the fandom, and I’m still working on mine. ^_^

Any questions, just ask!

Comments

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

Gah, wtf, another young one on my flist who writes well, jeez. I didn't know you're that young. Now I feel old, and I'm not even 30 yet.

Jack of all trades, master of FAIL

HAHAHA. That's me, too.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

funny you should say that- most people are surprised by how young I am.

Yeah, I meet all these people on LJ who are about 6-7 years older than me, and they are FANTASTIC writers, so it gives me something to aspire to.

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

If you are awesome now, you will clearly be AWESOME later. Aspire toward capslock!

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

SO NOTED!

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

You're a year younger than my sister. :D

Theoretically I’m bi, but I don’t ever see myself in a relationship. I feel the exact same way. I mean, I tried it out once, but it was pretty boring actually. ^^;

But when I’m actually around them, I’m very awkward. Yeah. Kids scare me, actually. They stare at me when I'm on the bus or train or at the supermarket. It's creepy. ._.

Kilroy? XD That's an awesome name.

...History of wine is a class? o.-

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

I feel like relationships ruin perfectly good friendships. I've seen this happen with people around me, and don't ever want it.

Haha, it's kind of strange when babies stare at you. It's like, "Ummm, does it think I'm interesting, or is it colic?"

Kilroy is from the "Here is Kilroy" graffiti from the World War. My friend in engineering camp was on a robotics team that used this for a logo, and I liked it.

Yeah, I have NO idea how I got into something like that. Usually it goes something like,

"Oh man, I wish I cold take this class..."

Engineering Schedule: "DENIED!!"

[grimmsical.livejournal.com]

They definitely ruin good friendships...

It's worse when they have drool and are grinning at you. It's like "...I'm either really that interesting, or that thing just took a massive dump..." I mean, they're cute. But creepy.

That's cool. (haha! Robotics team ftw! ours call themselves the nerd herd.)

But History of wine... what relevance does that have to anyone's major? XD Though, sadly, I'm still stuck in high school, so the counselors pretty much dictate everything. I have the same first four classes as everyone else, just in a different order.

Hm... I should do this meme, but I'm too lazy...

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

This is why I hate the college of arts & sciences. They can take the most random interesting classes and have it count towards their major. They can take pretty much what they want.
Whereas I'm stuck taking Electric Circuits and stuff all the time. I know I signed up for it when I became an engineer, but the huge differences between arts & sciences and engineering really angers me sometimes.

[traveling-storm.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll bite. :D Also, what are Nujubes?

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Nujabes is the artistic name of Japanese artist Jun Seba (He just switched the letters in his name) who does some pretty chill hip hop music.

I despise hip hop music. And R& B. And Rap. *shudder*

But I've found foreign artists have a talent for making these genres tolerable and actually interesting.

Nujabes does a very smooth jazzy hip hop that I like to listen to when I'm studying. Maybe I've started becoming interested in him more because I'm also starting to like the Norwegian group Royksopp.

[x-mog.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'm the same way. Being more at ease talking online, I mean. O.o Theoreticly, this is a stupid thing. But I've been at it since I was thirteen and I'm still breathing. And have only gained NON-SCARY stalkers. XD But, d'aaaawww... Make me feel warm and fuzzy inside to be considered a close friend~! ♥