The get-to-know-you meme
Everyone's doing this meme, and while I usually try to restrict my activity on this journal to actual fandom stuff, it occurs to me that that means some of you might not know the basics. So:
FIRST NAME: Julia.
AGE: 22.
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington.
OCCUPATION: Neurophysiology researcher, currently studying sweet taste in humans. I've had this job for two and a half years, four if you count my last year and a half of college when I volunteered for the lab doing basically the same work I get paid to do now. My grant funding is running out soon, though, so I'm looking for something else, hopefully more on the cognitive/behavioral side of neuroscience. I don't particularly love receptor modulation.
PARTNER: I've been with
projectyl since I was seventeen, and we've been living together since 2009. I have a few other label-avoidant Regular Things scattered around the country, too, but Mike is the only one I consider a partner right now.
KIDS: Are excellent sources of secondary income when their parents need them kept alive for a few hours, but I have no interest in obtaining any of my own.
BROTHERS/SISTERS: Three brothers: one a couple years older than me who's studying astrophysics, one a few years younger who wants to be a French translator, and an eight-year-old whose career plans probably involve video games.
PETS: Are excellent sources of secondary income when their owners need them kept alive for a few days, but I have no interest in obtaining any of my own.
PARENTS: My mom and stepdad live in Chicago (and are currently having a ball trolling me about the complete lack of shits they give about the Hawks' undefeated performance this season). My stepdad is a biological research professor. Mom has worn many a hat in her life, including programming, massage therapy, newspaper editorship, bridal hair design, and sex toy retail, but right now she's staying home with the little guy. My dad lives in California, I think. We don't talk.
3-5 BIGGEST THINGS GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE:
1. Hockey. This game has taken over my life to the extent that my friends (in at least two different social circles, without knowing about each other) have taken to yelling the word "HOCKEY!" when they need to get my attention or want to distract me from something. It works.
2. Fandom. I have an amazing online support network that's always there to squee with me, listen to me whine, kick my ass into being productive, help me become a better writer and editor, and teach me new things every day. You guys are the best.
3. Puzzles. A huge chunk of my friends are from various puzzle organizations and events, and Japanese-style logic puzzles are right up there with tropefic on my list of comfort activities when I've had a hard day.
4. Brains. I study them for work, of course, but I think about them all the time. They're just really cool and weird and surprising and capable and always relevant to absolutely everything. I'm incredibly glad I've taken the time to learn how they work, because my whole outlook on the world completely changed when I did.
5. Cooking. I am vegan and I enjoy debunking people's misconceptions about the capacity of vegan food to be fucking awesome. Would you like some pasta with sweet-and-spicy peanut sauce? I have leftovers from dinner.
This entry was originally posted at http://jedusaur.dreamwidth.org/81019.html.
FIRST NAME: Julia.
AGE: 22.
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington.
OCCUPATION: Neurophysiology researcher, currently studying sweet taste in humans. I've had this job for two and a half years, four if you count my last year and a half of college when I volunteered for the lab doing basically the same work I get paid to do now. My grant funding is running out soon, though, so I'm looking for something else, hopefully more on the cognitive/behavioral side of neuroscience. I don't particularly love receptor modulation.
PARTNER: I've been with
projectyl since I was seventeen, and we've been living together since 2009. I have a few other label-avoidant Regular Things scattered around the country, too, but Mike is the only one I consider a partner right now.
KIDS: Are excellent sources of secondary income when their parents need them kept alive for a few hours, but I have no interest in obtaining any of my own.
BROTHERS/SISTERS: Three brothers: one a couple years older than me who's studying astrophysics, one a few years younger who wants to be a French translator, and an eight-year-old whose career plans probably involve video games.
PETS: Are excellent sources of secondary income when their owners need them kept alive for a few days, but I have no interest in obtaining any of my own.
PARENTS: My mom and stepdad live in Chicago (and are currently having a ball trolling me about the complete lack of shits they give about the Hawks' undefeated performance this season). My stepdad is a biological research professor. Mom has worn many a hat in her life, including programming, massage therapy, newspaper editorship, bridal hair design, and sex toy retail, but right now she's staying home with the little guy. My dad lives in California, I think. We don't talk.
3-5 BIGGEST THINGS GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE:
1. Hockey. This game has taken over my life to the extent that my friends (in at least two different social circles, without knowing about each other) have taken to yelling the word "HOCKEY!" when they need to get my attention or want to distract me from something. It works.
2. Fandom. I have an amazing online support network that's always there to squee with me, listen to me whine, kick my ass into being productive, help me become a better writer and editor, and teach me new things every day. You guys are the best.
3. Puzzles. A huge chunk of my friends are from various puzzle organizations and events, and Japanese-style logic puzzles are right up there with tropefic on my list of comfort activities when I've had a hard day.
4. Brains. I study them for work, of course, but I think about them all the time. They're just really cool and weird and surprising and capable and always relevant to absolutely everything. I'm incredibly glad I've taken the time to learn how they work, because my whole outlook on the world completely changed when I did.
5. Cooking. I am vegan and I enjoy debunking people's misconceptions about the capacity of vegan food to be fucking awesome. Would you like some pasta with sweet-and-spicy peanut sauce? I have leftovers from dinner.
This entry was originally posted at http://jedusaur.dreamwidth.org/81019.html.