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| User: | alicetheowl (1313032)  Overqualified
confessions of an adverb addict |
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| Name: | Alice R. Keezer | |
| Website: | The Owl's Nest | |
| Location: | Arden, North Carolina, United States | |
| Bio: |  Be the Ultimate Ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today!  My husband and me  Herc and Jeff  Risu  Here are some websites I visit on a regular basis (other than here): Hero Games nogadi Stand Tall The Consumerist Asheville Citizen-Times (the local paper online) Asheville Buyer's Agent (real estate) NC Employment Security Commission (jobs) And when I shop online, I go to: Right Stuf and Amazon and Book Closeouts I am a married, midtwentysomething geek. I married my husband in March of 2001, two months before I graduated from college with a B.A. in Creative Writing and Psychology. My maiden name was Alice R. Nelson. I have two cats (pictured above), named Herc and Risu. Jeff vanished out through a faulty screen in May of 2007, and we've only seen him in passing since. Hopefully, he's found a new home, with more secure windows. Anime used to be HUGE to me, but now, I lean more toward manga. It's cheaper, though not by a lot. And while I'm still an anime fan, I enjoy roleplaying more, since it tends to encourage more active participation. I enjoy a slew of activities other than that, but I spend most of my time at work or being a sleepy homebody. I'd like to be a writer, though I spend more time making excuses of why I don't write than actually putting my butt in the chair and typing, so for now, I'm just a wannabe. Either the stars will align just the right way, or I'll finally get my ass in gear. Currently, I work for Diamond Brand, which is an outdoor activty-type store in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I work in their back offices, mostly, typing up information for their merchandise database, with other random duties thrown in for good measure. I grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but moved to Asheville, NC after some bastard started a fire in the basement of my apartment building. Despite the circumstances of the move, I'm rather glad I ended up in Asheville, because I enjoy this beautiful island of liberalism in the middle of the Bible Belt. People are friendlier and more open here than anywhere I've lived before, and there's a refreshing lack of judgmentalism among most of the people I meet. My college roommate, meanwhile, got me addicted to attending Dragon*Con annually, having paid for my ticket in 2005. I'm rather proud of the fact that I'm not always predictable and have a cynical streak, and I'm unapologetic about my propensity for ranting about nothing important. Anyone reading my journal needs to know that I rant to get things off my chest, get them out of my head, and be done with them. It doesn't always work, but it makes me feel better. I strive to be an honest, trustworthy, interesting, friendly and levelheaded person, mostly. It's a work in progress. I tend not to delve too deeply into my private life unless asked a direct question, but I'm working on being more open and less reserved. I'm prone to depression and self-doubt, but I don't wallow in it or beg pity, nor do I let these tendencies define who I am. I don't do memes in my LJ anymore, and am in the process of deleting a lot of my old entries with just memes. It's not that I think they're dumb; I don't. For me, though, they're another way of keeping people at arm's length, interacting with them without letting them know who I am. I'm trying to break that habit, so memes must go. I also don't watch any television, at least at home, live. I dislike commercials and find a vast majority of what's on to be crap, not worth paying the fifty bucks a month. I rent some highly-recommended shows on DVD, but I don't subscribe to any cable or satellite service, and I prefer to rent movies and anime over television shows. Though my journal is friends-only, I'm not terribly picky about who I add. If you leave a comment on my one non-friends-locked entry, or if you add me first, I'll likely add you on. I like making new friends, especially people who I might meet in person, so if you're a local or a D*C regular, speak up! HOWEVER, you might want to save us both the time and trouble if you fit into any of these categories: - You're an internet persona. I've had my fill of this kind of dishonesty. I
want people on my flist to bring their true selves. I don't want to be friends with
characters or inventions; real people are far more interesting. If you want to hide
behind an invented personality online, that's your prerogative, but please don't
clog up my flist with it.
- You don't care about your spelling/grammar/punctuation/capitalization/paragraph
breaks/formatting. I'm not the type to go commenting on every single entry to
point out a typo or snark at people for misspelling a commonly-misspelled word,
but if your posts consistently give me a headache to read, I won't bother.
- You're a dramamonger. I'm well aware that conflict is a rather big part of
almost any long-term friendship, but there are ways to deal with it, and ways not
to. I can understand some information-gathering and gaining of perspective
through chat, but once you've talked about what a horrible person you think I am
publicly (or through friends-only channels), you've lost any interest I might've
had in hearing your side. I left such tactics behind when I graduated high school.
I want to deal with conflict one-on-one, not by dragging other people into it. If
you'd rather not deal with me at all when my temper's flared up (and I'm aware that
I do have a temper), say the word, and I'll respect your wishes, and wait until
you're ready to discuss it.Otherwise, you'll stay classified as a friend unless you've made it blindingly obvious you don't want to be mine. | |
| Memories: | 18 entries | |
| Interests: | 143: 80s music, alice in wonderland, animals, animaniacs, anime, anti corporation, aquarian, arina tanemura, astronomy, audrey hepburn, bad jokes, being lazy, berke breathed, books, bookstores, boondock saints, buffy the vampire slayer, cake, calvin and hobbes, catharsis, cats, charles delint, cheesecake, clamp, classics, colin firth, comedy, concrete blonde, congregationalism, conjure one, conversation, cowboy bebop, dark shadows, dawn, daydreaming, debating, deep conversations, depression, diana wynne jones, douglas adams, dragoncon, dreams, dubthis!, dvds, eccentric, edgar allen poe, ewan mcgregor, fables, fantasy, fiction, final fantasy, firefly, fluxx, frente, friends, fruits basket, fushigi yuugi, games, garbage, greek mythology, harry potter, hero system, house of leaves, howl's moving castle, humor, imagination, individuality, insomnia, intelligence, john cusack, kamikaze kaitou jeanne, keira knightley, kevin smith, labyrinth, learning, libraries, lightning, lit, literature, ljmaps_alicetheowl, lords of acid, manga, marriage, miyazaki, movies, music, my husband, mythical creatures, mythology, nanowrimo, neil gaiman, newford chronicles, novels, open-mindedness, peter s. beagle, pirates, pirates of the caribbean, poe, politics, pretending, psychology, puns, ranting, reading, red sox, relationships, role-playing games, roleplaying, rpgs, rumiko takahashi, sarcasm, science fiction, shoujo, sleeping, smart people, stephen king, strange luck, studio ghibli, summertime, superhero, supernatural, the beatles, the dark crystal, the last unicorn, thinking, through the looking glass, thunder, tokyo mew mew, tokyopop, totems, ucc, urban fantasy, ursula leguin, vampire hunters, vampires, vertigo, walking, watase yuu, webcomics, werewolves, wicked, writers, writing | |
| Schools: | Centerville Elementary School - Centerville, MA (1983 - 1988) Barnstable Fifth Grade School - Hyannis, MA (1988 - 1989) Barnstable Middle School - Hyannis, MA (1989 - 1991) Barnstable High School - Barnstable, MA (1991 - 1996) University of Maine at Farmington - Farmington, ME (1998 - 2001) | |
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| Also Friend of: | 2: medusa_frost, tinygnoll | |
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