I Used To Use This For Not-Meme Things...
But it occurs to me that this might be useful information to some of you, as I'm sure I don't keep everyone informed of most things. I may, in fact, have a tendency to drop of the face of the earth completely. So here you go.
You know how sometimes people on your friend's 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. First Name: Susan
2. Age: 23
3. Location: Currently, a small, useless satellite to Chicago. I'm moving to Urbana, IL the first week of August.
4. Occupation: Right now I'm a customer service representative for a dance studio, and since their organization is rather loose and I spend the most time there I'm sort of the fake office manager. I'm currently in the market for a job in Urbana.
5. Partner?: Andy, childhood archnemesis turned junior-high crush turned good friend turned boyfriend. Turned vampire, eventually. It's only a matter of time.
6. Kids: I have a number of writing and craft projects that are my figurative babies, but nothing else.
7. Brothers/Sisters:
-Josh is 21 and going into his senior year at Bradley studying construction engineering. He has a cushy internship at a construction company and they are likely to hire him when he graduates. My brother is the only one of us who has some semblance of a concrete plan for the next ten years.
-Rebecca is 19 and has had rather a rough few years. She's dropped out of two community college programs and is about to sally forth at Cortiva Institute of Massage Therapy. She'd been living with my brother in Peoria, but is moving back home to go to Cortiva. She's between jobs at the moment and spends most of her time on a handful of substances.
-Emily is 17 and finishing up high school in December. Her passion is musical theater and she's just getting out of a Christian fundamentalist theater company which (surprise surprise) is not cool with her being a lesbian. She's also living at home, hoping to go on to college and thence to Broadway.
8. Pets: Three cats. Phantom (tuxedo cat) and Tabitha (long-haired tabby) are littermates and about 13 years old. They're reclusive and sedentary and they both hate each of the cats they share the house with. Tabitha is an especial favorite of mine, and she's probably coming with me when I move. Pinkle Purr (coal-black) is the young upstart who has turned my house upside down. She's almost 2 and is aggressive and usually unfriendly. I keep trying to buy her love with food and cuddles, which has not worked.
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
-As I mentioned, I'm moving to Urbana in just under two months to share a place with Andy. I'm trying to negotiate how to set up house, get a job, get myself into some classes, stalk network with the Linguistics Department at U of I (my primary justification for moving there), and wrap my head around my first fully official and legal attempt at cohabitation with a significant other. I'm terrified, but I'm also excited.
-Researching and applying to graduate schools. After my first rejection from U of I (unfortunately, also the only school I'd gotten my act together enough to apply to), I'm determined to do this thing right this time around. Besides U of I, I'm looking at University of Chicago, Northwestern, Berkeley, and a few other places.
-Doing my best to help out my family. Most of you already know that my father passed away in February, and our lives are changing drastically. My mom is fixing up our house to sell so she can move back to California next year to be with her family, and the rest of us are having to decide whether we'll stay or go. Emily is going, Josh and I are probably staying, and Rebecca's still on the fence. My mom is also relying a lot more on me to help keep the house running, which stresses me out rather a lot (especially as I'm trying to get out on my own for the first time), but you have to stand by your blood no matter how much you occasionally want to slap them. And dammit, I miss my dad. It gets more familiar, but it doesn't get any easier or any less weird.
10) Where and for what did you go to school for?: I graduated from Lawrence University in 2007 with a major in linguistics and a minor in French. My plan is to continue on to grad school to earn my Ph.D in linguistics and then go on to write and to teach at the college level.
11) Parents? Priscilla and Jim. My mom is Operations Supervisor at Christian Youth Theater Chicago and my dad was Relationship Manager for HSBC (a title that he got a few months before he died, and I'm still not sure what exactly it was supposed to mean.) They would have been together for 30 years last week (counting the time they spent dating in high school.) Apart from my dad's illness, they had an absolute fairytale of a relationship-- met in high school and knew immediately that they'd both found the love of their life, married at 21, family immediately after. It's given me somewhat of an unrealistic picture of how relationships are supposed to go.
12) Who are some of your closest friends?:
-K-Flo has been my best friend since we were six years old. She lives down the street from me and we see each other all the time. She's teaching music in Gurnee starting this fall, and it will be bizarre and difficult not to be close to each other, especially since I'm the maid of honor in her wedding next year. We stayed close through college, though, so this shouldn't be a problem.
-Jessa is my other closest friend from my hometown. We dated in highschool, with angsty and unintentionally hilarious results, but out of that we've gained great understanding for each other. She's a Library Science grad student at U of I, so I look forward to seeing her more often when I move.
-Andy, obviously.
-The Yuais are not only friends, but family. (Dysfunctional family, with creepy uncles and mad wives locked in the attic and all :D.) I joined up with this motley crew of misfits and maniacs during my first week at Lawrence and have never looked back. Jess put it best in describing the Yuais as being like the Mafia- once you're in, you never leave. Most of the people with whom I keep in touch are in Madison and Appleton, but even those I don't regularly hear from I love dearly.
- And, as always, Internet People. I've met a lot of folks on Rum and Monkey whom I'd consider friends, despite never having encountered most of them in person. I'll go long distances to meet up with them, eventually, when I have the money.
You know how sometimes people on your friend's 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. First Name: Susan
2. Age: 23
3. Location: Currently, a small, useless satellite to Chicago. I'm moving to Urbana, IL the first week of August.
4. Occupation: Right now I'm a customer service representative for a dance studio, and since their organization is rather loose and I spend the most time there I'm sort of the fake office manager. I'm currently in the market for a job in Urbana.
5. Partner?: Andy, childhood archnemesis turned junior-high crush turned good friend turned boyfriend. Turned vampire, eventually. It's only a matter of time.
6. Kids: I have a number of writing and craft projects that are my figurative babies, but nothing else.
7. Brothers/Sisters:
-Josh is 21 and going into his senior year at Bradley studying construction engineering. He has a cushy internship at a construction company and they are likely to hire him when he graduates. My brother is the only one of us who has some semblance of a concrete plan for the next ten years.
-Rebecca is 19 and has had rather a rough few years. She's dropped out of two community college programs and is about to sally forth at Cortiva Institute of Massage Therapy. She'd been living with my brother in Peoria, but is moving back home to go to Cortiva. She's between jobs at the moment and spends most of her time on a handful of substances.
-Emily is 17 and finishing up high school in December. Her passion is musical theater and she's just getting out of a Christian fundamentalist theater company which (surprise surprise) is not cool with her being a lesbian. She's also living at home, hoping to go on to college and thence to Broadway.
8. Pets: Three cats. Phantom (tuxedo cat) and Tabitha (long-haired tabby) are littermates and about 13 years old. They're reclusive and sedentary and they both hate each of the cats they share the house with. Tabitha is an especial favorite of mine, and she's probably coming with me when I move. Pinkle Purr (coal-black) is the young upstart who has turned my house upside down. She's almost 2 and is aggressive and usually unfriendly. I keep trying to buy her love with food and cuddles, which has not worked.
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
-As I mentioned, I'm moving to Urbana in just under two months to share a place with Andy. I'm trying to negotiate how to set up house, get a job, get myself into some classes, stalk network with the Linguistics Department at U of I (my primary justification for moving there), and wrap my head around my first fully official and legal attempt at cohabitation with a significant other. I'm terrified, but I'm also excited.
-Researching and applying to graduate schools. After my first rejection from U of I (unfortunately, also the only school I'd gotten my act together enough to apply to), I'm determined to do this thing right this time around. Besides U of I, I'm looking at University of Chicago, Northwestern, Berkeley, and a few other places.
-Doing my best to help out my family. Most of you already know that my father passed away in February, and our lives are changing drastically. My mom is fixing up our house to sell so she can move back to California next year to be with her family, and the rest of us are having to decide whether we'll stay or go. Emily is going, Josh and I are probably staying, and Rebecca's still on the fence. My mom is also relying a lot more on me to help keep the house running, which stresses me out rather a lot (especially as I'm trying to get out on my own for the first time), but you have to stand by your blood no matter how much you occasionally want to slap them. And dammit, I miss my dad. It gets more familiar, but it doesn't get any easier or any less weird.
10) Where and for what did you go to school for?: I graduated from Lawrence University in 2007 with a major in linguistics and a minor in French. My plan is to continue on to grad school to earn my Ph.D in linguistics and then go on to write and to teach at the college level.
11) Parents? Priscilla and Jim. My mom is Operations Supervisor at Christian Youth Theater Chicago and my dad was Relationship Manager for HSBC (a title that he got a few months before he died, and I'm still not sure what exactly it was supposed to mean.) They would have been together for 30 years last week (counting the time they spent dating in high school.) Apart from my dad's illness, they had an absolute fairytale of a relationship-- met in high school and knew immediately that they'd both found the love of their life, married at 21, family immediately after. It's given me somewhat of an unrealistic picture of how relationships are supposed to go.
12) Who are some of your closest friends?:
-K-Flo has been my best friend since we were six years old. She lives down the street from me and we see each other all the time. She's teaching music in Gurnee starting this fall, and it will be bizarre and difficult not to be close to each other, especially since I'm the maid of honor in her wedding next year. We stayed close through college, though, so this shouldn't be a problem.
-Jessa is my other closest friend from my hometown. We dated in highschool, with angsty and unintentionally hilarious results, but out of that we've gained great understanding for each other. She's a Library Science grad student at U of I, so I look forward to seeing her more often when I move.
-Andy, obviously.
-The Yuais are not only friends, but family. (Dysfunctional family, with creepy uncles and mad wives locked in the attic and all :D.) I joined up with this motley crew of misfits and maniacs during my first week at Lawrence and have never looked back. Jess put it best in describing the Yuais as being like the Mafia- once you're in, you never leave. Most of the people with whom I keep in touch are in Madison and Appleton, but even those I don't regularly hear from I love dearly.
- And, as always, Internet People. I've met a lot of folks on Rum and Monkey whom I'd consider friends, despite never having encountered most of them in person. I'll go long distances to meet up with them, eventually, when I have the money.