blog challenge day 1

Day 1: Write some basic things about yourself. (I'm not very good at thinking of things to blog about without sounding quite whiny so I've decided to use the blog challenge.)
So #1, my name is Ariel. I get Little Mermaid jokes most often, and my friends tell me to "go back to the ocean" when I say something sassy.

#2 I'm 22

#3 I have the same birthday as Rihanna (Feb 20), I don't know how I feel about this. #neutral

#4 I'm a senior at UW and I'm working on my general Biology and English degrees.

#5 I decided to double major because I thought English would be easy, but I actually like it a lot more than Bio.

#6 I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I tell people I'm from Chicago, but I only lived there for about 6 months and my parents moved us to Washington while I was still a baby. Apparently I was a very good baby and didn't cry on the plane but it was really because I'd stay up all night long crying and tire myself out during the day. This goes for church service as well.

#7 I'm really weird. I like coring apples and filling it with peanut butter. I'm loud and obnoxious when you get to know me, but I can't speak in public to save my life. or my grades. I received a 3.0 in a very easy English class because I refused to participate in the discussion. I still don't know why I'm so nervous about it. But I'm getting better.

#8 Those were all probably different facts but I don't want to have too many numbers.

#9 If I really had to choose, I would say forest green is my favorite color and 8 is my favorite number. For no reason in particular.

#10 I'm a Christian, because I'd like to believe there's some purpose to life and all that good stuff. I'm an optimist and I usually will believe everything you tell me.

#11 My favorite author is still Kurt Vonnegut, and I read his book The Sirens of Titan for the first time in 10th grade because he had just passed away and my English teacher, whom I still admire, Mr. Billeau, wanted us to appreciate his work. I did.

#12 My favorite movie is Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley and ever since, I've wanted to perfect an English accent. I also wish everyone acted as civilized as they did, but with better hygiene.

#13 I don't have any girl friends, and I don't know why this is. My fear is that I will be the female version of Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man.

#14 I pick up a lot of hobbies when I'm stressed out. So far, painting, t-shirt designing, plushie-making, sewing, DIYing old clothes, bracelet making, and most recently I've dabbled in wire jewelry. My fingers are extremely raw.

#15 Some day I want to start vlogging and not feel awkward about it.


That's all for now, I need to actually study for some tests and things so I can graduate and be done with undergrad. Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

it's blogging time. Post 1: Tuesday, 5/7/13

i have decided to start blogging again. why? well, i'm taking philosophy 100. a class that my dad told me not to take but as fate would have it, it's the one i chose over the history of modern medicine (because the prof in that class is a california hippy and i knew i wouldn't like her, plus my philosophy TA is this perky bubbly chatty guy that fences in national championships and is cool in general). anyway, we are going over epistemology now and it reminded me of a blog post i wrote a long time ago about whether things only existed once i was aware of them (or something i didn't explicitly write, that people's entire existences were based on me knowing them at a later point in time, requiring them to exist before i actually met that person). so i read a bunch of older posts looking for this one and read through the comments, and i was reminded of how cool i used to be (or at least, i think i was cool!) so i'd like to take up blogging again and hopefully i'll read this later on in life and be like, "wow i was a really cool kid" so yeah, this is my life. at 22 and a quarter.