E, also known as Eliza, is a college student residing mainly in Boston, but sometimes in southeastern NH. She’s studying Stage Management at an arts school in Boston, but isn’t very artsy. She enjoys goofing off on the piano, Adobe© Illustrator© and Photoshop©, but nothing very artistic ever comes of it. Doodles on notebooks generally consist of loops, trashcans, flowers, stars, surprisingly unhappy smiley faces, and wobbly lines.
And here is where she stops referring to herself in the third person, and begins rattling off random facts.
During the school year, I work at my school’s IT department with the nerds. I fit in well. During the summer, I work at a chainsaw, lawnmower, and miscellaneous other yard equipment store. There, I’m usually surrounded by hicks (the customers), and subjected to conservative talk radio all day (by my boss). At school, I really enjoy taking classes outside my major. I like to learn things that probably won’t help me much later in life (studying Darwin won’t really assist me in calling shows). I can read people pretty well, and I can usually tell if I’m going to like them or not in the first five minutes of seeing them. I’m a good listener and problem solver, and I’m really good at making people feel better. Around close friends, I’m really quite crude, but I think it’s an eloquent sort of crude (note the “really quite crude” phrase). I like cats. I like pictures of cats. I like dogs, but I’m more of a cat person. I think cats are just sassier. I’m obsessed with Batman. Everytime I see a picture of Batman in all his ripped glory, I get butterflies bats in my stomach. I have two tattoos, one of the bat symbol (on my hip) and one that reads “what a wonderful world” on my inner forearm. I think tattoos are gorgeous. I want piercings, but my summer job is a deterrent ($10 an hour, 40 hours a week or a piercing?). I used to think gauged ears were ugly, but I’ve grown to love them on the ladies and the gents. I almost never cry over my own life, only over fictional ones. I love to read essays, short stories, and non-fiction. Once in high school, I spent 12 hours straight playing the Sims. I stopped cold turkey the next day. I’m not picky about television shows, but I am very picky about movies (unless they’re free, like on TV or, uh, downloaded). I’m diabetic, and a huge fan of Wilford Brimley. I have a shirt with his face on it. I love Diet Coke. I like rock climbing (not in gyms, though), Ultimate Frisbee, hiking (the hardcore sort), and taking long walks around the city (I hate the beach). I’d much rather spend time with socially inept intelligent people than well-liked idiots. My cat can tell when my blood sugar is low, and she wakes me up if I need to. I own a Zune, not an ipod. I like windows for reasons other than aesthetics. One of my cats was featured on cuteoverload.com, and I was more excited than when I got into college. I hate pants. I don’t wear skirts. So basically, I hate wearing bottoms. I’d rather just be in PJ’s… or not… I like to keep magazines for a really long time. Sometimes I go through them for hours. Since I was little, I always wanted to work in a cubicle. But alas, stage management does not provide such luxuries. Equilibrium and Green St. Hooligans are my favorite movies. I generally like action movies a lot more than chick flicks or comedies.
Oh, and I watch too much television.
