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May. 3rd, 2009 01:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spintheiryarnsOKAY SO. Apparently I have a whole ton of people friended/subscribing/whatever you call it here that I don't on LJ and whom I possibly don't actually know at all, so perhaps I will crosspost after all while I'm getting myself sorted. I don't want to import my LJ, because there's five back years of teenage fail in there, but here's the short version:
I'm 21-- was born in NYC, grew up near Philadelphia, and currently live in Chicago with a lab tech, a math professor, and a giant orange cat. I was taking British history at U Chicago but hated it, dropped out, and am currently working for an online shoe store and looking into being an illustration major (and stage design minor) at an art school downtown.
I have no real specific fandoms any more, but the list of things I would love to read and/or write fic for is vast, and I love a good crossover-- I've got three separate ones on the brain right now. I get pretty OTP-ish and defensive about pairings, but I'll fall in love with a character or canon at the drop of a hat. As a general rule I like fictional(ized) newspapers, cyborgs, women who play with machinery, YA, non-comics-based superheroes, crime novels, and all kinds of cheesy ridiculousness. (My most recent addictions are Life, the BBC State of Play, Lost, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Zac Efron. If that helps.)
Tell me about yourselves :D? Even the socks and lurkers, if y'like, I'm curious who I'm talking to here. I'd offer lemonade but that doesn't work so well over the Internet.
I'm 21-- was born in NYC, grew up near Philadelphia, and currently live in Chicago with a lab tech, a math professor, and a giant orange cat. I was taking British history at U Chicago but hated it, dropped out, and am currently working for an online shoe store and looking into being an illustration major (and stage design minor) at an art school downtown.
I have no real specific fandoms any more, but the list of things I would love to read and/or write fic for is vast, and I love a good crossover-- I've got three separate ones on the brain right now. I get pretty OTP-ish and defensive about pairings, but I'll fall in love with a character or canon at the drop of a hat. As a general rule I like fictional(ized) newspapers, cyborgs, women who play with machinery, YA, non-comics-based superheroes, crime novels, and all kinds of cheesy ridiculousness. (My most recent addictions are Life, the BBC State of Play, Lost, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Zac Efron. If that helps.)
Tell me about yourselves :D? Even the socks and lurkers, if y'like, I'm curious who I'm talking to here. I'd offer lemonade but that doesn't work so well over the Internet.
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Date: 2009-05-04 02:18 am (UTC)Other than that, I'm 23 and working on finishing my undergrad degree (eventually), which is caught between English and Fine Arts at the moment. And, well, I've been terminally preoccupied with that lately, so I've been kind of boring. :( I'm looking forward to summer.
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Date: 2009-05-04 04:59 am (UTC)Everyone should like Zac Efron! He's a sweetheart.
I know what you mean about degrees taking forever :( If I restart at Columbia now I'd be getting my bachelor's when I'm 26. My roommate's that old and he's defending his doctorate D: But man, the time off has been so nice, and it'll feel so good when it's done, won't it?
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Date: 2009-05-09 05:53 am (UTC)That college sounds like a good fit then! It's also good that you can get guidance from your mom; that's my problem right now, is that I'm sort of floundering around without someone to help point me in the right direction. College stuff is confusing. :/
Wow, that is... really young to be defending his doctorate. I can't even imagine. Oh well, I kind of enjoy not feeling as rushed about it. I've taken a lot of good classes just because I wanted to, without worrying about credits I needed, and there's something to be said for getting the chance to explore.
Re: favorite fictional detectives--well, Agent Pendergast from the Preston and Child books is my big love. I've also read all the Sherlock Holmes stories and enjoyed them. During the phase where I went around reading all my dad's paperback thrillers, I read one Lincoln Rhyme novel, and it was probably the best-written of the bunch that I read. And I've been meaning to read some Nero Wolfe...one of these days, when I get the time. :/
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Date: 2009-05-11 12:17 am (UTC)Oh my gosh, I love Lincoln Rhyme, and you should totally read more of those! Lincoln and Amelia are fantastic, and they're all so well-researched and creepy. My mom is a giant Anglophile and infected me, so my favorites are Lord Peter Wimsey and Albert Campion. Ooh, and Inspector Rebus, and everyone Agatha Christie ever thought up-- her stories were a bit meh sometimes but her detectives were great.
and I forgot to ask:
Date: 2009-05-04 05:03 am (UTC)