Things You Need To Know

To stop myself from having to go on side-rants explaining things in my posts, I'll put up a list of things you need to know about me to understand my blog.

1. I'm currently going to Hollins University, an all-women's college in Virginia. Virginia is a decent distance away from Ohio, where I live when I'm not at Hollins.

2. I am the oldest child of three/five. I've got a little sister and brother, and two step-sisters. My parents were divorced when I was a freshman in high school and my mom got remarried a year-ish later. My step-family's pretty cool and there's not many hard feelings about the whole thing anymore.

3. Before high school, we moved around so much that I went to a different school every year. 4th grade and 5th grade were the same school district, but that school district had elementary as K-4, middle school as 5-6, junior high as 7-8 and high school 9-12 so it was pretty much a different school. Same thing with 6th and 7th grade, I went from elementary to a much larger middle school. Both times, I kept none of my friends from the previous school year. So yeah, new school every year until high school.

4. I'm not straight, but I'm not a lesbian either. I tend towards calling myself bisexual because that's a term that most people understand or have heard of. Given the opportunity, I will gladly say that I am attracted to individual people, not genitalia or social constructs.

5. My dad is gay, a pastor and a military chaplain. He is a complicated, very self-contradictory man.

6. I take after my father a lot. (We're both INFP's.) That's how my mom often understands things about me before I do.

7. GLBTQ rights are my berserker button. You have been warned.

8. My mom is awesome and has a lot to do with who I am as a person, just not in ways that are easy to describe like with my dad. She has always been there for me, even and especially when my dad was unable to because of his job. When I say she is the person that inspires me, I mean it. She's a social worker for child protective services, which means she gets to deal with the most disgusting, disturbing people short of serial killers. Actually, some serial killers are probably better than some of her clients. And she doesn't even get a gun or a tazor or anything, she goes into their houses armed with only a clipboard.

9. I rant needlessly, sorry about that. It's something I'm working on.