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I'm Katie-with-a-K and Catherine-with-a-C, resident neurotic of Jejune.net. I'm twenty years old, and a junior at CWRU. I'm an English major and a hopeless text junkie, but still struggling with developing some proper English-major pretension and rudimentary grammar skills. My minors in Computer Science and French are scarily close to completion as well, mostly by dint of making up in enthusiasm what I lack in natural aptitude.

I don't claim to be a design guru, but I work part-time doing web work for a small marketing firm. Concequentially, I spend most of my spare time surfing the web to update this site while avoiding work on my other, more procrastinated, personal pet projects. If I can build my design chops up sufficiently to get a job doing this after graduation, I'll be delighted. My priority, though, is to become a professional student. We'll see how ambitious I feel once teaching requisite Freshman Comp classes is imminent.

I never wanted a personal site. Fortunately, I had to make Version 00 for a class, where I realized that a page of my own didn't necessarily have to be an exercise in egotism. Instead, think of this as the Pop-Up Video of my life. When something interesting / unusual / cool / random occurs, there's a chance that it might be referenced or commented on here. Now it's your job to provide the video.

Two

I live in Cleveland. I'm an only child. I'm certainly not spoiled. I couldn't kick your ass, but my homies got my back (yeeah). I remember my mother's friend giving her an unsolicited xerox of an article called "How To Deal With An Introverted Child" when I was 12, but it proved ineffectual. I've been told that I work too much, but I see it as always finding something that I want to do. I'd really like to become a glass-blower someday. I spent 13 years of my young life taking piano lessons, but abandoned them totally after high school graduation to eliminate the downward spiral of suckiness that overtakes so many once-talented musicans. I shower every day, whether I need it or not. I'd really like to get some soap-on-a-rope to wear around in case it rains. What Flavor Flav did for the oversized watch pendant, I will do for soap-on-a-rope. I'm also a horrible liar, but have no problem applying creative hyperbole to a situation. Just don't feed me beef broth.

Three

Bands: The Clash, Slint, Sense Field, Hum, Compound Red, Jawbreaker, Split Lip, Luna, Karate, Elliott, the Donnas, Texas Is The Reason, Macha, Camper Van Beethoven, Shudder To Think, Unwound, Burning Airlines, Papa M, Weezer, Rex, the Rachel's, Tristeza, Madonna, Britney Spears, LFO, etc. And, uh, Jejune.

Foods: Nutella, English Muffins, peanut butter, Yoplait, cinnamon applesauce, Altoids, Granola, Basic 4, orange juice, Cherry Coke, Morningstar Farms' meatless-meat items, and Brown Sugar Cinnamon or Smore pop tarts.

Films: Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge; Trainspotting; The City of the Lost Children; Grosse Pointe Blank; Mystery Science Theater 3000, Dogma, and Ghostbusters.

Texts: Did you have to read it in school? I liked it (unless it was damn Billy Bud). Did you know somebody who you think might have had to have read it for class? I liked that, too.

and to the Fo'

That's enough about me. So tell me, who are you?