i hope you enjoy your sojourn of procrastination here-- I know and YOU know that you are supposed to be working right now. that's all right-- it will be our little secret.
for those of you who do not know already, my name is becky, and i USED TO BE A STUDENT! buton may 11th, 2003, i graduated from the awesome, fabulous college of william and mary-- alma mater hail!--with an english major, because my goal is to eventually become a college english professor. my dream life? to get my Ph.D and return to teach at william and mary, my second home...but we shall see.
WHAT LIFE WAS:
when i was not cramming my head full of austen, fielding and shakespeare, i was usually singing. i spent four unforgettable years as a member of the william and mary choir, and three unforgettable years in common ground, a women's christian a cappella group. what little of my life was not consumed by literature was consumed by music; i also play piano and a marginal amount of violin.
in between interminable term papers and reprehensible rehearsals, i spent my time writing, thinking, and hanging out with one of my favorite people, the other screaming weasel. it's been a year, and i miss her so! she's been more than a roommate-- she's happiness, sunshine, unwavering friendship, the evil twin i never had. she rocks my world.
WHAT LIFE IS
unfortunately, life as of late has been rather difficult. Due to a chronic nerve condition that asserted itself during my final year of college, i have not been able to proceed on to graduate school as of yet. i'm living at home with my parents (a mixed blessing, though a blessing nonetheless), doing a lot of creative and memoir-writing, reading everything and learning about everything i can get my hands on, and occasionally writing songs.
hmm, what else, what else... i spend an inordinate and probably unhealthy amount of my time pondering the universe. i might have ended up as a philosophy major were it not an even less employable concentration than english, if that's even possible! i freely admit that i am a nerd. i like thick books and big words. i'd much rather spend a saturday night in the library than at a party, even if I weren't chronically ill!. ain't it sad, folks? and after whiling away the hours exercising my dendrites in my own rapidly growing personal library, i retire to vomit my thoughts onto the screen of omar, my laptop; and here they are for your perusal. you may find them entertaining or infuriating; either way, it's a break from whatever responsible activity you should have been engaged in at the moment.
what else do you want to know about me? i am an aquarius, an artisan, an african-american, and lots of other things that start with the letter A. want to get to know me after getting inside my head? drop me an email. be forewarned, i don't do stalkers, advertisers, or sketchy little men.
enjoy!
