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This Might Possibly Be Me

Who am I? Good question.

I generally don't like writing autobiographies, or anything that discusses myself as an abstract or distant being. But perhaps I owe it to my reader, or perhaps I am just bored, or it might even be the fact that I've eaten the same thing three meals in a row (I only eat two meals a day), planning on making it a fourth, and my body is going haywire and making my brain do painful things.

Ow.

My name is Sarah, and I live currently in San Francisco, California. I work as an editor/proofreader type at a wire service (no, I don't get paid to write, alas, just paid to read shit-poor writing done by people who probably make six figures for sounding like 10-year-olds). I am an oldest child, I don't have a significant other as of this moment, and I make lots of mistakes. Hopefully, I learn from those mistakes as I go along. Isn't that what having a blog is all about — recording your mistakes for posterity and for all the world to see, and then learning from them because you have some place to look back and be reminded of them? Perhaps.

In case you hadn't noticed yet, I like to knit. A lot. I don't do it all the time, but I do knit while in front of the computer, while watching TV, even while sitting at work (my boss thinks it's kind of neat that I can knit and proofread at the same time ... though I try not to do that on busy nights when I need to get through a lot in a short amount of time). I have a problem with project-monogamy, and most of what I have finished has been given away (and therefore was knitting with a deadline, which doesn't leave much room for fooling around with other projects).

I write with a lot of parentheses. (No, duh!)

I like to cook. And to eat. Which makes keeping myself in single-digit pants sizes difficult. I worked hard to get here, dammit, and now it's all going backwards on me. Stupid deliciousness.

I work a graveyard shift, which allows me to sleep all morning long without feeling embarrassed, because it's expected. This is a good thing, because I'm definitely not a morning person.

I've made linguistics, especially the history of the English language, into a sort of hobby; finding a book with passages in Old English makes me wet my panties in glee. I like my job because it allows me to argue the finer points of grammar without feeling like an ultimate nerd. Because, well, it's expected.

The rest of me hopefully will come out in the writing. At least, that's the general plan.