- i was born less than 15 minutes from wolf trap, virginia, the location of will graham's fictional farmhouse.
- i have a (now very faint) burn scar on my right inner forearm from spilling soup on myself by accident. i also have a scar from taking lasagna out of the oven on my right wrist. spatial awareness is not my strong suit.
- when i was a very small kid (like barely walking) i was scared of chickens for a while because i had a run in with them on my grandparents' farm and they tried to peck the buttons off my sweater.
- in middle school, i did a speech about rats and how they're misunderstood for a speech competition.
- i have a laundry list of suspected but not diagnosed mental conditions, in order from most to least likely: depression, social anxiety (recovering from this well but it used to be debilitating), adhd (mostly inattentive rather than hyperactive), avoidant / restrictive food intake disorder, and a small amount of autism (?)
- since i'm younger than almost all of my uni classmates, multiple of them have nicknames for me like "child" and "baby," and they treat me like a kid, it's slightly annoying but mostly endearing
- i'm v androgynous and based on the fact that people gender me inconsistently seeing my face only, hearing my voice only, and meeting me in person, i think my voice is included in this. i'm like a rorschach inkblot i'm whatever you need me to be
- the alarm i use is chalet. other alarms i have used include the song fast car by tracy chapman, and baka mitai from the yakuza ost (no idea why... maybe to reflect thea despair of having to wake up in the morning)
- i have 4500+ songs saved on spotify. i've had my account for about 5 years.
- my ipad which i use for notetaking and drawing has tiny stickers of pompompurin's hamster friend, muffin on it (thanks to ev who gave them to me).
- i'm half white and half chinese and so far no one has guessed my race correctly by looking at me. a few guesses i have gotten, unprompted: italian, filipino and white, indigenous, white and vietnamese, just regular ol white, mexican.
- my "killer track" is ain't talkin 'bout love by van halen.
- when i was a kid, i was afraid of quicksand and getting struck by lightning, and surprisingly, neither of those have come up in my adult life so far.
- i somewhat regularly get asked if i have a lighter even though i'm not a smoker of anything (except socially).
- when i was a kid, i recorded films using a camcorder and my stuffed animals as actors. cinema if i do say so myself.
- when i'm working on essays, i leave myself short and passive aggressive notes on my work like a mean professor. (eg. "?" "no" "what" "fix")
- three things i almost always wear: black chuck 70s, black nail polish, and a silver sword/cross necklace.
- in middle school, my friends nicknamed me "leaf juice" because i really like(d) tea. when i was even younger, my mom called me "小" or xiao, which means small in chinese.
- i used to have a bad habit of chewing ice, which i stopped doing out of concern for my teeth.
- i would consider myself slightly above average at tetris, i used to play it for fun years ago before they got rid of the 1v1 mode.
jul 27 2024 ∞
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