Fool's April: the blog by kwugirl

...where nothing is sufficiently foolproof for the sufficiently talented fool

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About a girl

Hello, reader. Welcome to my life, as recorded by me since early 2002. I try to be honest in all my posts and don't edit them after the fact except to correct typos or reorganize a bit. This way, everything is a slice from that moment in my life and although it's sometimes embarrassing to look back upon, I leave it all up. Enjoy. Don't laugh too hard.

I am an American college freshmen student, which doesn't make me particularly unique. I am an American college student from New Jersey, which still doesn't narrow the field much because in my personal experience, New Jersey seems to be incredibly overrepresented everywhere. Apparently there's just a lot of people in New Jersey. Note, however, that only New Jerseyans are allowed to make fun of New Jersey. It's not okay for everyone else to do so--it's our home, after all. Thanks.

I am the first-born child, first generation to a pair of Chinese immigrants. This has had many profound impacts, not the least of which is that I NEED TO EAT ASIAN FOOD semi-regularly in order to be able to get by. Here at college that's a bit harder to do, but I tend to go out at least once a week into Boston to get some sort of Asian food--Chinese, Thai, Indian, Malaysian--love them all!

The other thing about having Chinese parents is the difficulty of growing up perfectly unscathed. You can examine this, once again, in the archives where you'll see that getting through high school wasn't very easy. It's better now, with less personal contact. I don't want to malign my parents in any way, because they're good people and they're my parents, of course I love them, but...there were some difficult times. No physical abuse or anything like that at all, but perhaps the typical teenage angst upped a few levels.

Speaking of high school, I went to a vocational high school in my county that was supposed to prepare us for careers in engineering. I think that very few graduate to go into engineering. What we did have there was incredibly special. My graduating class was 62; it was a very small school. We left our lockers open all the time. Constant computer usage was the norm, and people that would be social outcasts in "normal" high schools found their soulmates there. We identify ourselves as dorks or nerds or geeks, so if it wasn't obvious upon first reading my blog, I wouldn't hesitate to identify myself as any of those three.

So this "Dan" character I often mention (sometimes as Danny, dannyboy, The Boy, etc.) is my boyfriend of almost 1.5 years now. We got to know each other through our active participation on the school's Academic Team (see? dorks!) and...got really lucky, I guess :) He's so smart and cute and funny and complements me in all ways I could hope for. Best friend and best companion. He attends Gettysburg College, so we've been doing the long distance thing since I'm at Boston College. The long distance thing entails many hours of conversation on AIM (although, I suppose we did that constantly before too...nerd theme again!) and random phone calls and writing letters and my risking the wrath of my family when I go home for break and pretty much don't spend any time at all. Yeah, the other thing is that my family doesn't know about him. Not that I know of, anyway, we have a "don't ask, don't tell" policy at home. It makes things go more smoothly.

I enjoy reading advice columns (Cary Tennis' column at Salon.com and Dan Savage's Savage Love) and reading blogs and knitting and photography and being crafty in general. I'm more of an introvert--being with people for too long stretches of time just tires me out. I'm also rather lazy about a lot of things people here at my school are not lazy about, like working out or putting makeup on or staying on top of the latest (read: most expensive) fashion trends, although that's not to say I don't enjoy being girly and having pretty things. On the other hand, I'm really intense about things that most of them aren't, like schoolwork.

In high school, I was on: my home school's varsity tennis team, the Academic Team, the Math Team, the Science League, the Science Bowl team, National Honor Society, Newspaper staff, and maybe some other things, I'm not sure. Now in college, I dance with the school's dance organization and in certain cultural groups' culture shows, sing in the Madrigals group, play piano in the Chamber Music Society, work as a computer lab assistant, work in a genetics research lab, am on the College Bowl team, volunteer through the 4Boston program, and again, probably other things that I've forgotten at the moment. It isn't resume building that I'm after; I have a lot of widespread interests.

MY FAVORITE TV SHOW OF ALL TIME IS ALIAS. If I had a religion, it would be Alias. My favorite season is season 2 because that's when I first started watching it, but season 1 was excellent as well. I also love the show Scrubs (love the movie Garden State!) and Gilmore Girls. I like the show Lost but I'm not particularly committed to watching it regularly. With the others, get in my way and I'll be extremely annoyed.

I listen mostly to various alternative rock (I think?) type music, although a large amount of my music collection consists of soundtracks: to movies, Broadway shows, whatever. My guilty pleasure is girly pop--Michelle Branch on the more respectable end and Christine Aguilera on the other.

With regards to political views, I don't have that many. I'm really just not all that interested in politics or history or most liberal arts; I'm a Biology major who's very interested in genetics. I have very strongly held opinions on some of the social issues, like anti-Affirmative Action and pro-choice and pro-gay marriage. So I suppose I'm mostly liberal leaning. I believe in believing in things that are practical and make sense and are logical, but I'm idealistic about the practicality of all that being implemented. I'm slowly learning that "people suck!" is the reason behind a lot of things, but every time it's new again and I am disappointed.

Okay, I'm not sure how to bring this to a close, so dig through the archives or just follow along the blog for awhile if you really want to know more. Leave a comment if you have any particular questions. Have a good day!