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| Me, at my favorite resturant: The Olive Garden. |
| Goblin and Trick, respectively. In my neon-orange slippers. |
| Kramer, my cat--lounging on my bed. |
| Well, since you came here I�m going to assume you want to know about me. I�m nothing special really, just your average teenager. Actually, I just turned nineteen in March (2004, in the event that this website is ancient), so I won�t be a teenager much longer. I graduated with the class of 2003 from Laurel High School, in Maryland. I lived in Laurel most of my life (barring one year in Baltimore, and we live in Pasadena now). Most of my day is filled with reading, writing or drawing, but I do other things, too. In fact, I love video games; RPG�s in particular. Chrono Trigger and Lunar: SSSC are among my favorites. I also play Magic: The Gathering, though I profess I�m not amazing at it. Quite recently I snatched up some Dragon Dice and that�s an interesting game, too.
Books� well, I have a lot of books. My most favorite books at the moment are those in the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin (www.georgerrmartin.com), but I also read Anne Rice (www.annerice.com), Piers Anthony (www.hipiers.com), and a lot of other authors more sporadically than the aforementioned. I have all of the Xanth books except for the two most recent (I stopped at Xone of Contention), and all of Rice�s |
| Vampire Chronicles, including Vittorio and Pandora. I have her Beauty series and Exit to Eden, as well. I didn�t like Belinda so much, but I was transfixed by Violin and Servant of the Bones. Blackwood Farm is my favorite of the Vampire books, and Vittorio, Lestat, Amadeo, Marius and Quinn are my favorite vampires. I write, though I have trouble finishing stories, as you would have noticed if you read some of them. Most of them take place in my �universe,� Nexus. I�ve loved many of these characters and places since I was eleven or twelve, and many of the creatures living there are almost as old as me. I have so many tales to tell about Nexus and its inhabitants, but I seem to have trouble writing them down. Another series of books I�m working on is titled �A Cross of Garnet.� The main character is a vampire with multiple personalities, or maybe schizophrenia. I�m not sure, as I�m no psych. He�s very interesting to write about. When I was twelve, I finished my first story. It came in at 80 pages, 12 pt Book Antiqua. It was a fan-fiction on Chrono Trigger. I still have it, but I read it now and can only laugh at some of the things I�d written. I live with my Dad and my sister. Amanda is really my half-sister, and my Dad isn�t biologically related to me, |
| but he might as well be. Sometimes, I feel like he treats Amanda better than me and that�s the first reason that comes to mind, but I never think rationally when I�m upset. I know he loves me just as much as he loves my sister. Blood doesn�t really matter in this family. My mom passed away December 31, 2002. She was my best friend and my soul mate, and I know she�s watching over me. My friends and family were very supportive for us when she faded. I don�t think I could have made it without my friends.
I have a boyfriend, too�actually, a fianc�, but no one in my family really recognizes it. I think it�s because I�m so young, and they think it won�t last. Well, they can believe what they want; I was never one to hinder others thoughts. But, back to Nick. I think that after Mom died, there was this huge nothingness�a blackness, if you will�that surrounded me, pulling me in, engulfing everything I�d ever |
| known and loved. Nick helped make that horrible empty feeling go away. Even to this day, when I can feel the |
| blackness closing in, all I have to do is call on my happiest memories of Nick or Mom, and it ebbs away. Nick is the light that chases the darkness away. And I love him.
A question I get a lot is, �What does �JKW� stand for?� Well, before you can ask that question, I�ll tell you. J, K and W are Jewel�s initials. Jewel Kshenya Weretiger. Jewel was my first anthro, and I�ll always relate her to the earlier times in that part of my life. She�s just as important in my life as Nexus in its entirety. One more thing, before I go. I simply must tell you about my pets. I have two rats and a cat. My dad has a python, named Monty. (Ha.) My cat�s name is Kramer. He�s an old boy, 10 or 11 or something like |
| that. I love him very much. He thinks I�m his mum, and he sucks on my ear like he�s feeding. I wouldn�t mind, but his breath reeks of fish. My rats are Goblin, after Quinn�s ghost in Blackwood Farm, and Trick. Goblin�s albino, and I�ve had her longer, so naturally I�m more attached. Trick is black with white on her forepaws and belly. The hairs on her tail are black until the tip, where they�re white. It�s kind of like that dog, Dipstick, from the 101 Dalmatians movie. She�s named �Trick� because she thinks she�s an acrobat! On the way home from the store, she managed to get out of the box I was carrying her in. She likes to jump; so much that, if the cage door is open, she�ll jump out of it and onto my shoulder. |
| Arucard, of course. |