Well, this sure is a broad topic.

Anyway, I'm an nineteen-year-old who spends a lot of time writing. It's a great way to spend the time I should be paying attention to my expensive college classes.

Of course, a large amount of the time I get my latest "greatest idea ever" only to write a couple paragraphs and move on to something else. But I've written some stories and two screenplays that have amused myself and others, so that's good enough for now. I write some song lyrics occasionally too, which is pretty useless considering I can't even play that guitar sitting in my room.

Obviously then, it's pretty big for me to not take things to seriously. And making a guy with a PhD burst out laughing at one of my papers is pretty much the pinacle of that.

But I do love a nice, heated, angry debate too, since there's nothing better than winning one of those and making the other person look like a FOOL.

As far as my interests, those would all be below.

So hopefully I haven't scared you off yet. That's supposed to come later.

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• Elensule

I'm majoring in journalism, but I would love to write creatively for a living. Since that's a long shot, I'm trying to play it logical here.

Then again, the newspaper is dying, so I'm screwed either way. Yay for student loan debt.

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• Elensule

Being sarcastic, pissing off teachers by being sarcastic, coming up with witty remarks after it's too late, daydreaming

Apparently I look a whole lot younger than I actually am. Some of my favorite recent comments:

"I thought you were in tenth grade or something."
"There's no way you're in college."
"I would have guessed you were 16."
"I never would have pegged you for that age. Congratulations." (Said by a cashier who had just carded me for buying an R RATED MOVIE)

Depending on the day/hour/minute I may or may not be wearing glasses. I imagine this confuses people.

I am also extremely pale, to the point where it's pretty ridiculous. I don't get tan. I get sunburn and back to pale again.

I read a lot, mostly mystery/suspense/thriller, horror, and sci-fi (if it's by the right person). I just bought an absurd amount of issues of Weird Tales, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, so I'm way too pumped about that. Anyway, some favorite authors: Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Clive Barker, Fredric Brown, Robert Bloch (and if you know who those last two are, you are automatically one the greatest people on this earth).

I also watch way too many movies. To me, TCM is just about the greatest station ever. I tape a bunch of the movies every week off there (yes, with a VCR. Update: I now have a DVD recorder. Go me.). Hitchcock is the all-time master, and I love myself some horror movies too, and not just the good ones. Give me an incredibly cheesy B-movie where rabbits attack and kill people (it's called Night of the Lepus, by the way) and I'll be a happy guy.

TV shows that are awesome: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, Twin Peaks (but I'm not done watching all the episodes yet), Dexter, Law & Order: SVU, The Office, 30 Rock, Mythbusters, ICE ROAD TRUCKERS, Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, Robot Chicken, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Conan O'Brien and Craig Ferguson.

Music pretty much falls into older rock stuff and alternative. Favorite bands: Rush, AC/DC, Cheap Trick, The Who, The Flaming Lips, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Dictators, Sleater-Kinney, Mission of Burma (and again, if you know those last three, you rule).

I'm pretty picky with food, which probably contributes to me being thin enough to be taken way by a stiff wind.

Books, music, movies, the normal members of my family, curling, cookies

Stuff I'm writing, stuff I want to write and an assortment of completely random things

Probably watching a movie, or writing. Depends on how lazy I am that day.

I've killed seventeen people.

Sorry. Bad joke.

Unless you thought it was funny, in which case I guess it would be a good joke.

And you know curling, that sport in the Winter Olympics where people throw rocks and people sweep the ice with brooms? I do that. And it's awesome, so quit laughing at me now.

If you want to talk to me about anything, I guess. If we have common interests, that's great, or else we could probably find something to fight to the death about.

But if you do send me a message, please make it consist of more than just "hey" or "sup". I never have any idea how to build a conversation off that, so I don't bother. Or I guess I could either say "hey" or "the ceiling" back, but that's a terrible joke so let's not do that.