i’m a mixed [black daddy, white mom] girl who really prefers to type in all lower-case letters. i’ve made an effort to actually write correctly, here, but I can’t promise how long that’ll last. when i was a kid, i was always extremely aware of my race and my parents’, but affectionately referred to them as ice-cream flavors [chocolate, vanilla, and i believe i was mint-chocolate chip cuz that was my favorite...even though i wasn't green. but then - i was a kid, so it doesn't really have to make sense].
my parents wanted me to be a good lil feminist, and by the time i was five, i could hold my own with the lil sexist boy in my kindergarten class who told me that girls couldn’t be doctors, cuz only men were doctors. [girls had to be nurses] i replied that not only was that untrue because my dad was a nurse, but that i could be anything i wanted to be – up to and including president of the United States.
as an army brat i didn’t move around as much as many do. but i did get to live in hawaii for almost 3 years, and that was awesome. i loved it, have great memories, and highly recommend everyone visit.
i went to college at the age of 13, pretty much after 7th grade [8th grade is a lost year that we. do. NOT. talk. about.] and had a great time watching the world open WIDE to me. met great people and crazy mean people and idiotic people and wonderful people and poor people and rich people…and life was incredible. then i came home to finish at ‘Our Town U’. i dilly dallied, in part due to my intense fear of growing up and having to get an actual job [my own personal issue]. plus i was terrified of all the old people there. 7 years after i started, i finished. with a BS in Chemistry.
so i’m a chemist, now living in podunk, America, cuz that’s where the job is. the ‘tubes are my connection to sentient, non-everything-phobic life. there’s a buncha stuff i skipped – like how i’m addicted to music and have been singing since 2 and love it more than anything else; how i’m a born and raised Seventh-day Adventist Christian [3rd gen], and it’s way important to my life which influences how vehement i am about how church and state should be mutually exclusive and that people should have the right to follow their conscience as long as it doesn’t harm others; how i’m a vegetarian but not for the animal rights reasons, and that the only pet i’d consider is fish [if someone else cleaned the tank] – cuz i’m pretty much terrified of animals; and so on and so forth.
welcome to the bit of me that i let you see.
