| Bio: | born in freeport, new york, had a lot of cousins, played in leaf piles and listened to records while eating grilled cheese, had an overactive imagination (including an imaginary friend named cheila), drew letter people in prekindergarten, moved to florida, had a best friend across the street, swam a lot, organized kick ball games, was declared gifted and destined to be in the same classes with the same people for the rest of time, met david beckman, danced, played softball, slept with a stuffed animal, quit all sports in favor of art and drama, went to hel...i mean middle school, didnt get onto cheerleading team, was overly sensative, obsessed over must see tv, moved away from best friend, braces, glasses, ugly, henry hudson project with prospective best friend, went to high school, stalked boys, was a debater, won trophies, got straight a's, got a b in chemistry, took ap chemistry, got a 2 on the ap exam, became a transition maven, traveled often, went to shows, was rejected, got over it, regretted not being an artist, became a poet, didnt care about people anymore, almost lost some friends, got them back eventually, worked at a video store, saw a dildo in the dropbox, graduated, sang great balls of fire while wearing a pink sweater, was abandoned at college on birthday, made new friends, missed home, didnt miss home, called home a lot, had too much fun, regretted, reminisced, visited home, transcended, got an online journal, returned to blockbuster, was accosted by charles, returned to normal, was ripped from normal, came back to college, built a loft, painted it yellow, got a futon, took some classes, missed my parents, quit some jobs, lost a computer, gained some weight, wished i were still 17, missed my brother, ate a chimichanga, drank coffee for the first time, deprived self of sleep, dressed up like audrey hepburn for halloween, behaved embarassingly everywhere i went from lonliness, sent a manuscript to england, bought some bookshelves, fell out of my bed, joined a college literary magazine, built a sand city under 10,000 kites, ate a lot of club sandwiches, decided not to move home anymore, bought a coloring book, moved into a purple house, got a job as a camera operator, ate a box of chocolate donuts, slow danced in the living room to john coltrane, squeezed a summer worth of happiness into a week, came back to a bathtub and no walls, received a wandering jew, ate 5 buckets of ice cream, learned how to count in catalan, reflected over a small patch of grass, was passive aggressive, compromised with the married couple, washed a lot of dishes that weren't mine, baked seduction cookies, was called by a new york city dwelling-cell phone toting-hoboken new jersey visiting friend a lot, double fisted wine and black & tan at a family wedding, went to epcot, got some guts, climbed a tree, didn't drop children's literature, got a 7/ good pointes here which somehow equaled an A, went to las vegas, wished my family were young again, rearranged the living room, got a coat rack, started playing myst, went to plan b, brought dan home, had a shotgun spring break, got a limo, saw a monet made out of toast, drove on the interstate, learned about the paper plate from damascus, did a presentation on guy, took a lot of naps, lived with erin and amanda, learned the truth about shakespeare, walked home in the rain, became a sandwich maker, had travelling adventures, made a USA cake, got a huge cookie and a reminder to always stay young, turned 21, had a champagne toast, studied spanish phonetics and sociolinguistics like crazy, had sushi on halloween in savannah, bought a down comforter, came clean about some things, drank the blue nun, resolved to be a good friend, got a bad case of the senioritus, drove to north carolina and baltimore, got into grad school, got a lot of mail about graduation, finally read a whole novel in spanish, acquired 3 letters of recommendation for grad school, didnt live up to expectations on the GRE, escaped from my own graduation, swam in a pool shaped like a piano, baked on friday nights, sold knish on wednesday afternoons, sold sandwiches to drunk people on thursday nights, read only books from the alachua county library that could be strung together by topics like "relationships, fiction, new york city," had my future sister-in-law call me 'sister' while sitting in the rain drunk on 12 bottles of amazingly expensive wine that i drank with my family of all people, went on a groundmoving fair ride with a stomach full of seafood after being awake for over 24 hours, spent dan's first night in his apartment with no airconditioning, said goodbye in the chick-fil-a parkinglot, acquired an allen jih from the internet!, started proteach, had friend crushes, ate all the ice cream and played cards with no power during francis, met the typicals, taught 11th grade english honors, mastered the socratic seminar, had an eatonville film and arts festival, applied for 15 jobs in miami-dade, went to a bridal shower in yorba linda, signed on to cohabitate, realized i had eaten the last dinner i will ever eat at chrystal and captain's apartment, ...welcome to the present, we are currently existing |
