User:Minervamoon

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[edit] Oh, the randomness of me

My name is Sarah, and I am a 19-year-old undergraduate at the University of Florida, which I attend because my bank account increases by $6000 every year I’m there, with no depletion aside from the necessary items of media infatuation that I am required by personal law to buy. I originally hail from St. Petersburg, Florida, much like Jimbo Wales. Yes, I've surreptitiously stalked the Wikimedia headquarters in the downtown area. But give me a little credit in that I didn't march down the street yelling "WIKIPEDIA! WIKIPEDIA!" (however tempting though it was).

I’m reading Classics (that means Greek and Latin; and don’t worry, you’re not the only cretin to ask, “What kind of Classics?” as though there were more than one), with an additional emphasis on Pre-med, so that I can have my language and literature kick and eat it, too. Science, that is. Eat science.

If you didn’t find my substitution of "reading" for "majoring in" an odd choice of words, you’re either not American, or you are a particularly England-savvy one . . . in which case, please to be friending me. You've caught me: I’m a bit of an anglophile, although by "a bit", I meant to say "a whole hell of a lot". I watch English shows, drink Twinings English Breakfast Tea, have a tendency to break into an English accent, and am running away to England in May simply because I feel like it. I shall only return once London is duly raped (I'm speaking here of the charm of the city itself, not of every single inhabitant of the city).

Side note: Stephen Fry is the best thing to come along since God ordained light. Light is pretty damn cool, but is it a hilarious? Is it gentlemanly? Is it English? Case closed. Furthermore, I never saw light impersonate Michael Jackson, although I don't know on which side of the chalkboard to tally that point.

I’m a grammar-Nazi. A spelling-Nazi to some extent, but most of all, a grammar Nazi. Yes, I know that that sentence didn’t have a verb; that’s not what I mean. I mean that you should be doing such simple things as differentiating between a hyphen and a dash, spacing the dots in your ellipses, matching your pronoun to your antecedent, not abbreviating or deliberately misspelling words because it’s "easier" to type them (for God’s sake!); and simply, not resorting to effing netspeak, which, frankly, makes you seem idiotic from the get-go. Danke.

My fingers hyperextend. It’s really scary. Their main joints bend backwards at 40-degrees without external effort. I wear silver ring splints to compensate, and as a result, people often compliment my fine taste in “jewelry,” or else warily eye my iron knuckles. (Weren't they Zelda monsters?)

What I like: The piano, naughty fanfiction, Ancient Greek, oldies music, my puppy, traveling, bras that fit correctly, non-elastic panties that don't cause blistering, nail cutters, Publix sweetened iced tea, MUG root beer, penguins, cookie-scented candles, body pillows, fuzzy socks, the Legend of Zelda, Apple computers, people who use proper spelling and grammar online, dreams, carbohydrates.

What I abhor: Flip-flops. The footwear, not the John Kerry-type good-for-nothing ketchup-guzzling wishy-washy wafflers . . . although I don't really like them, either.

[edit] My Website = Shameless Plugging

QI Transcripts (the quite interesting textual alternative!)

That's "textual", by the way, not "sexual". Reading transcripts is, of course, a form of safe sex, unless you're finding a way to do both at once, in which case you have either really steady eyes or a particularly poor partner.

[edit] Anything else?

That's probably not all I should put here, but that's all I have for now. I'm keeping this userbox because I was the first to have it (it was practically the only thing on my Talk page for the longest time):