NAME: Melanie
NICKNAMES: Mel
BASTARDIZED SPELLINGS: ??
BIRTHDAY: May 23rd
WHICH MAKES ME A: Gemini. control-freak. completele and utter nut.

GENDER: Female
RACE: Caucasian (French-Canadian, generations and generations of it)
NATIONALITY: Canadian
RELIGION: half-hearted Pagan
SEXUALITY: straight/bi
DATING: engaged

BORN: Alberta
WHERE: there are lots and lots of fields. and tumbleweed blows down the streets.
RAISED: all over Canada - mostly Saskatchewan and Quebec
WHERE: i was exposed to a variety of places, people, and became extremely jaded at a young age.

HIGH SCHOOL: Centennial Regional
COLLEGE: Dawson College
IN: originally, Interior Design. then, Illustration. and finally, Social Science.
UNIVERSITY: Concordia
MAJOR: Classics (focusing on Ancient Rome)
MINOR: Anthropology
CURRENTLY: working at a bookstore and trying desperately to figure out what to do with myself next year.

TRADITIONAL ART: i used to be quite the artist, until college. they beat it out of me, leaving me quite disgusted with my abilities.
MUSIC: i sing in the car.
DANCE: years and years of ballet jazz, some classical ballet. i tried ballroom once and nearly died.
PHOTO: learning slowly.

TRAVEL: when do we leave?
AFRICA: nope
EUROPE: next year (going to Italy)
ASIA: i wish
NORTH AMERICA: most of Canada, a few northern states.
SOUTH AMERICA: maybe someday

LANGUAGES: i'd like to know more than i do. i'm currently trying to learn rudimentary Italian.
PROFICIENT: English, French
CRAP: Spanish. despite a year of schooling and a nice high 90s grade, i've buried it all in my subconscious...

CLASSES THIS SEMESTER: i'm technically registered as an independant student, but lack of funds is keeping me to home-education.

THINGS I ALWAYS BUY IF I SEE THEM AND I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT I CAN'T HELP MYSELF: books. candles. more books. lots and lots and lots of books (the whole working at a bookstore thing doesn't help, believe me.)

ROLEPLAYS: tried a modified D&D, worked well but kinda fizzled out
GAME MASTERS: varying from quite talented to downright terrible
ALSO IN: WoW sucks me in weekly, but my first love will always be Civ-type games (Pharaoh is disgustingly addictive)

QUESTIONS: why am i here, anyway?
AND: why am i doing this thing?