it's too early to be contemplative
Meme I saw on penguinontherun 's journal....
You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are 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 mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.
1. Name: I go by Majo/Majo-chan/Yamino Majo online. It's something I came up with wayyyy back when I first started my online forays, after I ditched the ____no miko nickname (Cuz Fushigi Yuugi was still going/big and EVERYONE was something-no-miko) and the one based off an original character.....
I was browsing through my shiny new Japanese dictionary and happened upon the word 'Majo', which is literally "ma" (demon, magic, etc) and "jo" (woman, girl), meaning 'Witch', and I was sold. :D
2. Age: I am currently 26, which has only 2 prime factors (2 and 13)! I really liked being 24, which was divisible by a whole slew of things. I'll be 27 in June, which is 3 cubed. :D
3. Location: Southern California, and speaking of which, WHY IS IT 45 degrees?! D: D: D: We are collectively called the California Crybabies, for we start whining as soon as the temperature moves out of the high-60s low 80s range.
4. Occupation: I was Analyst 1, got promoted to Analyst 2, got promoted to Asst. Manager, dropped back down to Sr. analyst (because of my part-time status), and now we're..........I can't remember the exact title, but something like Sr. projects operations analyst, or such.
And the whole group that we're now part of is now 'Decision Reporting'. Sounds nifty, no?
5. Partner: Don't have one, and don't really......I wouldn't say I don't want one, so if someone shows up that's really great to be around and likes me and I like them back, etc etc, I wouldn't mind having a partner. I just don't believe in actively looking for someone, or feeling the NEED to have someone. I'm a firm believer in being able to stand by myself. It's probably not all that realistic or applicable, but my mom once told me to become a person that can live on fine even if I was the last person on earth. I plan to try to reach that goal to the best of my abilities. :D
6. Kids: Hahaha, I don't have a partner, I certainly don't have kids. Or am in any financial, mental or emotional situation to be able to handle taking care of one. They're cute if they're someone elses' though.
7. Brothers/Sisters: One brother, who turned out to be unexpectedly awesome despite all signs. A true late bloomer, that one, and I'm damn proud of him, even though I only tell him when I am truly being sentimental. I win extra in that he has an equally awesome girlfriend, who is like a sister to me. :D
8. Pets: I want a cat. D: Maybe once the whole grad school thing settles down and I'm in a position where I'm relatively certain of my stability for a comfortable chunk of time, I'll adopt one.
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
Health: Am working on my general health through eating healthy (aided by the fact I'm living with my dad) and exercising (after being told about it for at least 10 years by my mom, I FINALLY learn the lesson). Losing weight is just a happy bonus.^_^ I have set goals! And am meeting them!
Art: This goes for writing too, except on a much smaller degree. Art is always going on in my life, sometimes it's huge, sometimes I get in a slump, but it's a part of me, like my hand or my foot. I get nonsensical ideas, I get grand visions, I put pencil to paper and it makes me happy. It won't go anywhere, I think. I am too easily distracted and mostly too cynical to do anything with it, but it's something that's all mine.
Grad School: .................is a dream, but I thought it was pretty impossible that I'd LIKE sweating like a pig for 45 minutes each day and breathing hard and actually doing curls and weights and stuff, and see how THAT turned out (I love it. Ok, actually what I love is that I get to listen to music and feel better and not ever get as sick as I was when I was working 60 hours a week and stuff). I'm thinking of two really hard schools, and a few decent 'back-ups', but I don't want it to be a half-assed masters degree, and if it's not worth it I'll just keep working and keep trying. I did set a goal though: Apply by my 27th birthday. I always seem to work better under pressure. :P
Kingdom Hearts: (Shut up this is SO totally a big thing going on in my life!!!) Am currently hiatus-ing on KH1 while I get the whole GRE + achy wrist thing straightened out. But OMG, it's awesome and wonderful. KH2 is so pretty and CoM looks awesome. I'm even getting cosplay aspirations, which is NEVER a good thing. But yeah, KH is currently eating my brain with Saiunkoku snacking on the remains.
Family: My family is awesome. I'm a bit worried for my dad when my stepmom passed away, but he seems to be doing okay. My bro's great, and my mom's the best mom ever. If one believes in karma, I must've been some sort of saint in the past life.^_^;
10. What did you go to school for: It just didn't seem like an option not to^^; and I'm good at school (somewhat, failed Calc1 midterm not withstanding), probably to the detriment of things like street-smarts and stuff.
I also love going to school because I can sit in lecture, listen to it, and DRAW AT THE SAME TIME. Some of my best doodles came from lecture-times.
11. Parents: oops, I think I covered that in the 'family' part. *thumbs up*
And I never mention it directly in conversation unless people ask, but my parents are divorced, and have been since my junior year in high school. My dad remarried and my mom has someone. I honestly think what happened was for the best, and everyone came out of it happier and probably more emotionally healthy. If everyone was this mature...well, if they were this mature, the whole thing would've never happened (and I wouldn't be born!), but to be able to mature to a point of handling it in an adult, responsible manner....I'm proud of my parents.
12. Who are some of your closest friends: Wow, that's a loaded question^^; Well, my closest online + occasionally RL friends are subsiding_leaf and grey_damaskena , both of whom are tons more creative and better at everything than I (and sometimes seem to be sharing my brain). My best RL friend is Mel and Darian, though I see the latter rarely nowadays due to mutally busy schedules. I've also been getting to know the Coffee night crowd better, and have had tons of fun times with them.
I don't think I say it enough, and maybe other people think it, or not, but I'm incredibly lucky. I have a great immediate family, I have no major sources of insecurity or trauma. I have friends, work, and stability, and I am finding out that I am also capable of change and improvement. My major source of angst is grad school, which is pretty amusing in the scheme of the magnitude of what most other people have to angst about. I occasionally get bummed that I'm not tall, or gorgeous, or skinny, but those are just superficial things that never stay long before I laugh at myself and get over it. If I'm not the best at making new friends or fitting into what people my age are 'supposedly' doing, I'm not a complete failure at it, have tons of stuff I can and enjoy doing more anyway, and I have great older friends.
MAN I'd better go to bed before I get any more sappy. :P Must learn to auto-engage snark like Riku. (And yes, my life is good because of Riku too. Before that it was Kanda, and Seiran, and Jr., and Sesshoumaru, and Xelloss and a myriad of other non-real men. I love it, they can never break my heart and they'll always be there for me to revisit and worship. LIFE IS GOOD).
Majo
You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are 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 mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.
1. Name: I go by Majo/Majo-chan/Yamino Majo online. It's something I came up with wayyyy back when I first started my online forays, after I ditched the ____no miko nickname (Cuz Fushigi Yuugi was still going/big and EVERYONE was something-no-miko) and the one based off an original character.....
I was browsing through my shiny new Japanese dictionary and happened upon the word 'Majo', which is literally "ma" (demon, magic, etc) and "jo" (woman, girl), meaning 'Witch', and I was sold. :D
2. Age: I am currently 26, which has only 2 prime factors (2 and 13)! I really liked being 24, which was divisible by a whole slew of things. I'll be 27 in June, which is 3 cubed. :D
3. Location: Southern California, and speaking of which, WHY IS IT 45 degrees?! D: D: D: We are collectively called the California Crybabies, for we start whining as soon as the temperature moves out of the high-60s low 80s range.
4. Occupation: I was Analyst 1, got promoted to Analyst 2, got promoted to Asst. Manager, dropped back down to Sr. analyst (because of my part-time status), and now we're..........I can't remember the exact title, but something like Sr. projects operations analyst, or such.
And the whole group that we're now part of is now 'Decision Reporting'. Sounds nifty, no?
5. Partner: Don't have one, and don't really......I wouldn't say I don't want one, so if someone shows up that's really great to be around and likes me and I like them back, etc etc, I wouldn't mind having a partner. I just don't believe in actively looking for someone, or feeling the NEED to have someone. I'm a firm believer in being able to stand by myself. It's probably not all that realistic or applicable, but my mom once told me to become a person that can live on fine even if I was the last person on earth. I plan to try to reach that goal to the best of my abilities. :D
6. Kids: Hahaha, I don't have a partner, I certainly don't have kids. Or am in any financial, mental or emotional situation to be able to handle taking care of one. They're cute if they're someone elses' though.
7. Brothers/Sisters: One brother, who turned out to be unexpectedly awesome despite all signs. A true late bloomer, that one, and I'm damn proud of him, even though I only tell him when I am truly being sentimental. I win extra in that he has an equally awesome girlfriend, who is like a sister to me. :D
8. Pets: I want a cat. D: Maybe once the whole grad school thing settles down and I'm in a position where I'm relatively certain of my stability for a comfortable chunk of time, I'll adopt one.
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
Health: Am working on my general health through eating healthy (aided by the fact I'm living with my dad) and exercising (after being told about it for at least 10 years by my mom, I FINALLY learn the lesson). Losing weight is just a happy bonus.^_^ I have set goals! And am meeting them!
Art: This goes for writing too, except on a much smaller degree. Art is always going on in my life, sometimes it's huge, sometimes I get in a slump, but it's a part of me, like my hand or my foot. I get nonsensical ideas, I get grand visions, I put pencil to paper and it makes me happy. It won't go anywhere, I think. I am too easily distracted and mostly too cynical to do anything with it, but it's something that's all mine.
Grad School: .................is a dream, but I thought it was pretty impossible that I'd LIKE sweating like a pig for 45 minutes each day and breathing hard and actually doing curls and weights and stuff, and see how THAT turned out (I love it. Ok, actually what I love is that I get to listen to music and feel better and not ever get as sick as I was when I was working 60 hours a week and stuff). I'm thinking of two really hard schools, and a few decent 'back-ups', but I don't want it to be a half-assed masters degree, and if it's not worth it I'll just keep working and keep trying. I did set a goal though: Apply by my 27th birthday. I always seem to work better under pressure. :P
Kingdom Hearts: (Shut up this is SO totally a big thing going on in my life!!!) Am currently hiatus-ing on KH1 while I get the whole GRE + achy wrist thing straightened out. But OMG, it's awesome and wonderful. KH2 is so pretty and CoM looks awesome. I'm even getting cosplay aspirations, which is NEVER a good thing. But yeah, KH is currently eating my brain with Saiunkoku snacking on the remains.
Family: My family is awesome. I'm a bit worried for my dad when my stepmom passed away, but he seems to be doing okay. My bro's great, and my mom's the best mom ever. If one believes in karma, I must've been some sort of saint in the past life.^_^;
10. What did you go to school for: It just didn't seem like an option not to^^; and I'm good at school (somewhat, failed Calc1 midterm not withstanding), probably to the detriment of things like street-smarts and stuff.
I also love going to school because I can sit in lecture, listen to it, and DRAW AT THE SAME TIME. Some of my best doodles came from lecture-times.
11. Parents: oops, I think I covered that in the 'family' part. *thumbs up*
And I never mention it directly in conversation unless people ask, but my parents are divorced, and have been since my junior year in high school. My dad remarried and my mom has someone. I honestly think what happened was for the best, and everyone came out of it happier and probably more emotionally healthy. If everyone was this mature...well, if they were this mature, the whole thing would've never happened (and I wouldn't be born!), but to be able to mature to a point of handling it in an adult, responsible manner....I'm proud of my parents.
12. Who are some of your closest friends: Wow, that's a loaded question^^; Well, my closest online + occasionally RL friends are subsiding_leaf and grey_damaskena , both of whom are tons more creative and better at everything than I (and sometimes seem to be sharing my brain). My best RL friend is Mel and Darian, though I see the latter rarely nowadays due to mutally busy schedules. I've also been getting to know the Coffee night crowd better, and have had tons of fun times with them.
I don't think I say it enough, and maybe other people think it, or not, but I'm incredibly lucky. I have a great immediate family, I have no major sources of insecurity or trauma. I have friends, work, and stability, and I am finding out that I am also capable of change and improvement. My major source of angst is grad school, which is pretty amusing in the scheme of the magnitude of what most other people have to angst about. I occasionally get bummed that I'm not tall, or gorgeous, or skinny, but those are just superficial things that never stay long before I laugh at myself and get over it. If I'm not the best at making new friends or fitting into what people my age are 'supposedly' doing, I'm not a complete failure at it, have tons of stuff I can and enjoy doing more anyway, and I have great older friends.
MAN I'd better go to bed before I get any more sappy. :P Must learn to auto-engage snark like Riku. (And yes, my life is good because of Riku too. Before that it was Kanda, and Seiran, and Jr., and Sesshoumaru, and Xelloss and a myriad of other non-real men. I love it, they can never break my heart and they'll always be there for me to revisit and worship. LIFE IS GOOD).
Majo