About Me
I've noticed that most people, when confronted with a "Bio" field, begin by saying that they have no idea what to say. I've never understood this. I have quite a bit to say about myself, though some of it may not be fit for mixed company and all of it may be irrelevant, or at least beside the point.
I am in my senior year at a small liberal-arts college in the Midwest. I started as a standard creative writing major and then discovered a true passion, and my latent academic side, in the history department. I intend to go for a Ph.D. in Modern European history and become a professor.
I have a low tolerance for drama queens, postmodernists, axe-grinding academics, radical separatist feminists and "political lesbians," ultra-liberals, neo-conservatives, One-True-Wayists, wacky Internet kids, men in bars who tell me to "smile," and people living unexamined lives. Bad spelling and grammar drive me to violence.
On the other hand, I enjoy good literature, trashy horror novels, arguing with smart people, fine German beer, classical music and classic rock, cheap Indian food, walking around campus in the fall, and (losing at) video games. I love nothing better than to listen to people talk about their passions. Puppies generally send me into transports of joy, but don't spread that around.
I am blessed in that I have a group of friends so large and supportive that I sometimes wonder whether they've mistaken me for someone else, and a lover who could not be a better match for me if I'd had him custom-ordered. I am often either miserable or enraged -- sometimes both -- but I have days where I break even and days where I fly. It works out in the end.
My enneagram type is either 2, 5, 6, or 9. My Myers-Briggs type is either INFP, INFJ, INTP, or INTJ. I can come up with as many labels as I want to, but I still find myself impossible to quantify. I like that in a woman.