About
About the Author
Hello. My name is Mel.
I am a short, white, California college junior. I have an addiction to tea, sugar, Stargate SG-1, all things Adobe, Denny’s pancakes, Paper Mario, and good books. I hate carbonation, which yes, means all forms of soda and beer. I am a severe asthmatic who was ecstatic to run a ten-minute mile. I am fiercely anti-drugs/smoking/alcohol in my personal life, but try not to get in other people’s faces about it…without, I suspect, much success. The “not in other people’s face” thing is hard for me, but I get Try Points…mostly because I say so.
I have slightly-more-than-passing interest in reading, writing, feminism, politics, religion, sociology, psychology, philosophy, logic and rhetoric, and Latin (as evidenced by my extended course list in all these things), and sex (which they have no truely helpful classes on). If I had a million dollars, right here, right now, I would go to college for the rest of my life and get only His Noodleyness knows how many Ph.D’s. As it stands, since I am financing my own higher-education (one of those “parents too ‘rich’ to get financial aid but too poor/stubborn [more poor than stubborn] to pay for college” situations), I will probably only be able to go for six years or so (yes, I am disappointed). I am pursuing career(s) in publishing, journalism, and graphic design.
To summarize: I am an classic uber-nerd.
If you want to know more about my personality/views/beliefs/interests/toe hair, read my flipping articles. They’re there for a reason.
Oh, and if you’re wondering who Sam is, that’s my finacé person/dude/guy/thing. The “fuzzy” jokes are because he is fuzzy…hairy, bristley, whatever you want to call it. He’s been in my life for going on four years now, so it’s highly unlikely he’s going anywhere, despite our “issues” (yay for cliché…)
Yes, I am cynical/sarcastic, but I try to be as just/evenhanded/unbitchy as possible. It’s hard to find your voice (aka, be interesting) and still maintain that personal distance my journalistic brain demands (aka, not be hysterical or rude/assinine like my rules tell other people not to be…). Finding that balance is partly what this “thing” (I hate the word “blog”, it sounds ugly to me, like “mucus”, “plegm”, or “Gertrude”) is for.
And in case you didn’t notice, I tend to write a lot more than I should. Needs must learn to summarize, Mel!
About the Blog
(blech…I hearby decree hours of watching Barney and Teletubbies to be imposed upon whomever invented that disgusting sounding term)
I, Mel, am dedicated to the cause of feminism. This blog (ew) is meant to explore feminism, and it’s connections and day-to-day impact within politics, religion, sociology, psychology, philosophy, logic and rhetoric, and Latin sex (<— my interests/experiences).