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I saw this somewhere and I think it's a great idea, especially since I have made a lot of new fandomly friends and I only know a handful of my LJ friends in real life. And there's a lot that you miss, when you know someone solely through what they spill out onto the virtual spaces. And there's a lot that you forget you're hiding.
So!
(Uh, fair warning: I got ridiculously carried away)
Ten Things I Assume You Know About Me
1) I am Australian by birth and mostly-British by blood - I was born in Melbourne and lived there when I was a tiny, messy, boring human being. I then lived in Birmingham, UK with my mother's family (and various other temporary locations around Europe) until I was 4, when we moved to Canberra. And I've been here ever since. I have gone from vague indifference to warm fondness for it as a city; it's not so big that you can't drive anywhere in less than an hour, it's not too small, it's clean and the traffic is never really bad and there are, actually, things to do. Sometimes I resent Canberra for not getting the big musicals/live music gigs, and sometimes I resent Australia for not getting movies/TV shows until months after the States, but on the whole I really like living where I do.
2) I am in my second year of awanky elite science degree at the Australian National University, which basically means that I get ten times the paperwork in exchange for some waived prerequisites and the opportunity to do advanced research at an undergraduate level. Although we don't really have majors in the same sense that American degrees do and I technically don't have to have majors at all because of my flexible degree...on paper, I am majoring in pychology and molecular biology. In reality, I am doing all the fun-looking courses in things like neuroscience, perception, immunology and parasitology.
3) I plan on going to graduate medical school and then specialising in infectious diseases or neurology. I'd like to end up working for the World Health Organisation or UNAIDS or some other international disease control organisation, but that's way off in the future. Currently I'm debating whether or not to sell my soul to the Australian Defense Force in exchange for all of my medical fees and a salary whilst I study, because I'd kind of like to travel around with the army treating exciting diseases and doing emergency aid relief. Sometime in the next year or so my love of being clean may kick in and change my mind. If I don't get into medical school I'll most likely do a PhD in neuroscience or immunology. Or I might quit academia and work in a bookshop.
4) Due to this desire to get into medical school, and also the fact that I have to maintain a High Distinction average to stay in my degree, and also my own cursed perfectionistic streak, I work hard. I stress a lot. I also have a tendency to take on too many things, and then be tearing my hair out about it for weeks. I am (mostly) enjoying being President of the university choral society, but also looking forward to the day when I can take off that particular hat. I disappear from chatting and RPing and (sometimes) LJing for long periods of time when the academic pressure is at its peak.
5) I like performing! I don't do it much at all any more, but I like it. I played euphonium for four years, realised I hated it (though I liked playing in the bands), and quit with a great sigh of relief. I did dance for ten years; eight of jazz, five of ballet, one of tap and two of street funk. I'm about to start swing dancing lessons. I love dancing more than almost any other form of expression. I like acting but I'm not excellent at it; directing suits me better. Unless it's Shakespeare, in which case I want to be saaaaaying the woooords. I am a complete and total Shakespeare nut. Hmm. I like singing in ensembles but I don't consider myself good enough to be entirely comfortable singing solo. I have a great love of musical theatre and really wish I had the time to audition for amateur shows, but c'est la vie.
6) Relatedly, I detest (and am bad at) pretty much any sport that does not involve moving to music or shooting things. Dance counts. I did some mean competitive aerobics for my school house. I figure skated between the ages of 3 and 12, and still choreograph for my siblings and can be enticed onto the ice to compete in fun things on occasion. I have never had any proper training in archery or pistol shooting, but from the few times I've tried them: I have a knack for making things hit targets.
7) I read a lot, and I write. A lot. Though not as much as I'd like, on either count. My writing skills, such as they are, are the result of many years of blind juvenile belief in my own genius that kept me writing (and, slowly, improving). I have never actually considered writing as a career, mostly because I have a great need for security and control in my life and I could never gamble on my future. Perhaps if I dropped everything and wrote I would be published, and perhaps I would be successful, and perhaps I could even make a living. But I'd rather stick with science and write as I do now: fannish things and things for my friends, and tap away on my original works at my own pace. I believe in the present tense, in playing around with language, and in inserting science or Shakespeare wherever possible. Actually, that part tends to happen by accident. I write a very small amount of poetry, mostly sonnets or sestinas. Structure makes me happy. I go through long periods of writing little followed by long periods of prolific esctasy, and I have an attention span that generally makes anything longer than 10,000 words impossible.
8) I discovered LJ at the end of 2002 through a group of people that soon became my closest (real life) friends. They introduced me to anime and to the world of fandom and fanfiction, and I pretty much flew from there. I have been active in two anime fandoms (Yami no Matsuei and X/1999) and am now comfortably at home in the Battlestar Galactica fandom, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar gets the credit for being the most influential online thing I have been part of, both in terms of my writing skills and the people I have met. I love lots of graphic novels, Firefly, Buffy, House, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, and a lot of British shows you've never heard of, but I'm not 'active' in the fandoms; I will write for pretty much anything I feel I know well enough, and some things that I don't. I have never been wanked about, and tend to sit in a corner scribbling and not making waves. I don't have time for much more :)
9) I moved out of my family home very soon after turning 18, and spent a year living with two other girls in a house about six minutes from said family home. As of January this year, one of these girls (on this LJ, referred to as Q) and I are sharing an apartment only five minutes from said family home. It's the metaphorical distance that counts, people. And besides, we don't have a washing machine. I make not very much money tutoring maths and science and cleaning house for my mother, make occasional bursts of good money marking maths papers for a friend at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and am largely supported by my scholarship and my beloved parents.
10) I have never been in a relationship in my life. I have been asked out exactly once, and managed to handle it so badly that it started rumours that I was a lesbian (since then, I have come out as bisexual, but I wasn't then :D). Sometimes I will ramble on my LJ about why this is and whether or not I actually really want a relationship (it keeps falling back in the 'I don't have time!' category). I believe in love, but not one true love for every person. Further on the Bohemian list: I believe in freedom. It would be hypocritical for me to believe in absolute truth; I believe in the ambiguity of the moment. I do believe in honour. I believe very, very strongly in beauty.
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schiarire can talk about me better than I can talk about myself:
Fahye is the strangest person I have ever met, because sometimes she is a Romantic and sometimes she is a Realist and therefore she escapes definition.
She enjoys cynicism, but she tends to portray even ugliness aesthetically. It's like she views the world through a beautiful filter, and everything glows with life and tangents and wonder, until you realize that it's actually Venetian blinds and you are FALLING INTO THE DARK PIT OF HER REALISM. And there is just no warning.
Ummm, hm.
It is the most interesting blend ever, for surely. It's like -- it's like true love laced with cyanide.
~
In summary: the three things missing from my life are free time, love, and timely TV. Thanks, Ji.
Oh, that's me in the icon. I don't actually glow in real life. Sadly.
So!
(Uh, fair warning: I got ridiculously carried away)
Ten Things I Assume You Know About Me
1) I am Australian by birth and mostly-British by blood - I was born in Melbourne and lived there when I was a tiny, messy, boring human being. I then lived in Birmingham, UK with my mother's family (and various other temporary locations around Europe) until I was 4, when we moved to Canberra. And I've been here ever since. I have gone from vague indifference to warm fondness for it as a city; it's not so big that you can't drive anywhere in less than an hour, it's not too small, it's clean and the traffic is never really bad and there are, actually, things to do. Sometimes I resent Canberra for not getting the big musicals/live music gigs, and sometimes I resent Australia for not getting movies/TV shows until months after the States, but on the whole I really like living where I do.
2) I am in my second year of a
3) I plan on going to graduate medical school and then specialising in infectious diseases or neurology. I'd like to end up working for the World Health Organisation or UNAIDS or some other international disease control organisation, but that's way off in the future. Currently I'm debating whether or not to sell my soul to the Australian Defense Force in exchange for all of my medical fees and a salary whilst I study, because I'd kind of like to travel around with the army treating exciting diseases and doing emergency aid relief. Sometime in the next year or so my love of being clean may kick in and change my mind. If I don't get into medical school I'll most likely do a PhD in neuroscience or immunology. Or I might quit academia and work in a bookshop.
4) Due to this desire to get into medical school, and also the fact that I have to maintain a High Distinction average to stay in my degree, and also my own cursed perfectionistic streak, I work hard. I stress a lot. I also have a tendency to take on too many things, and then be tearing my hair out about it for weeks. I am (mostly) enjoying being President of the university choral society, but also looking forward to the day when I can take off that particular hat. I disappear from chatting and RPing and (sometimes) LJing for long periods of time when the academic pressure is at its peak.
5) I like performing! I don't do it much at all any more, but I like it. I played euphonium for four years, realised I hated it (though I liked playing in the bands), and quit with a great sigh of relief. I did dance for ten years; eight of jazz, five of ballet, one of tap and two of street funk. I'm about to start swing dancing lessons. I love dancing more than almost any other form of expression. I like acting but I'm not excellent at it; directing suits me better. Unless it's Shakespeare, in which case I want to be saaaaaying the woooords. I am a complete and total Shakespeare nut. Hmm. I like singing in ensembles but I don't consider myself good enough to be entirely comfortable singing solo. I have a great love of musical theatre and really wish I had the time to audition for amateur shows, but c'est la vie.
6) Relatedly, I detest (and am bad at) pretty much any sport that does not involve moving to music or shooting things. Dance counts. I did some mean competitive aerobics for my school house. I figure skated between the ages of 3 and 12, and still choreograph for my siblings and can be enticed onto the ice to compete in fun things on occasion. I have never had any proper training in archery or pistol shooting, but from the few times I've tried them: I have a knack for making things hit targets.
7) I read a lot, and I write. A lot. Though not as much as I'd like, on either count. My writing skills, such as they are, are the result of many years of blind juvenile belief in my own genius that kept me writing (and, slowly, improving). I have never actually considered writing as a career, mostly because I have a great need for security and control in my life and I could never gamble on my future. Perhaps if I dropped everything and wrote I would be published, and perhaps I would be successful, and perhaps I could even make a living. But I'd rather stick with science and write as I do now: fannish things and things for my friends, and tap away on my original works at my own pace. I believe in the present tense, in playing around with language, and in inserting science or Shakespeare wherever possible. Actually, that part tends to happen by accident. I write a very small amount of poetry, mostly sonnets or sestinas. Structure makes me happy. I go through long periods of writing little followed by long periods of prolific esctasy, and I have an attention span that generally makes anything longer than 10,000 words impossible.
8) I discovered LJ at the end of 2002 through a group of people that soon became my closest (real life) friends. They introduced me to anime and to the world of fandom and fanfiction, and I pretty much flew from there. I have been active in two anime fandoms (Yami no Matsuei and X/1999) and am now comfortably at home in the Battlestar Galactica fandom, but
milliways_bar gets the credit for being the most influential online thing I have been part of, both in terms of my writing skills and the people I have met. I love lots of graphic novels, Firefly, Buffy, House, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, and a lot of British shows you've never heard of, but I'm not 'active' in the fandoms; I will write for pretty much anything I feel I know well enough, and some things that I don't. I have never been wanked about, and tend to sit in a corner scribbling and not making waves. I don't have time for much more :)9) I moved out of my family home very soon after turning 18, and spent a year living with two other girls in a house about six minutes from said family home. As of January this year, one of these girls (on this LJ, referred to as Q) and I are sharing an apartment only five minutes from said family home. It's the metaphorical distance that counts, people. And besides, we don't have a washing machine. I make not very much money tutoring maths and science and cleaning house for my mother, make occasional bursts of good money marking maths papers for a friend at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, and am largely supported by my scholarship and my beloved parents.
10) I have never been in a relationship in my life. I have been asked out exactly once, and managed to handle it so badly that it started rumours that I was a lesbian (since then, I have come out as bisexual, but I wasn't then :D). Sometimes I will ramble on my LJ about why this is and whether or not I actually really want a relationship (it keeps falling back in the 'I don't have time!' category). I believe in love, but not one true love for every person. Further on the Bohemian list: I believe in freedom. It would be hypocritical for me to believe in absolute truth; I believe in the ambiguity of the moment. I do believe in honour. I believe very, very strongly in beauty.
schiarire can talk about me better than I can talk about myself:Fahye is the strangest person I have ever met, because sometimes she is a Romantic and sometimes she is a Realist and therefore she escapes definition.
She enjoys cynicism, but she tends to portray even ugliness aesthetically. It's like she views the world through a beautiful filter, and everything glows with life and tangents and wonder, until you realize that it's actually Venetian blinds and you are FALLING INTO THE DARK PIT OF HER REALISM. And there is just no warning.
Ummm, hm.
It is the most interesting blend ever, for surely. It's like -- it's like true love laced with cyanide.
~
In summary: the three things missing from my life are free time, love, and timely TV. Thanks, Ji.
Oh, that's me in the icon. I don't actually glow in real life. Sadly.