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Mel

Mel

About Me

I'm 22 years old and currently a resident of Lansing, Michigan, but I spent most of my life in the suburbs of Chicago. I've spent time at the University of Miami and at Wheaton College, working toward a music education degree, but then I decided that I wasn't really about that. So I took a semester off, worked three jobs, did some semesters at community colleges, and moved to Michigan. Now I'm an English major at Olivet College in Olivet, Michigan, and I'm planning to graduate in December 2008. After that, I'm not sure what I'm going to do, besides write. Whether I'll pursue a career immediately or go to graduate school is still up in the air. Eventually, I'd love to write for a magazine, ideally, a skating magazine. I hear Skate Canada has plans to hire me to start theirs again.
My biggest passion is figure skating and some of my best memories have been attending skating events all over the eastern part of the continent with groups of friends. I love going to Canada, because Canadian crowds and skaters are better, and I'm awfully glad that I live a lot closer now. Saves on gas money.
So life right now is being on my own, which is really nice but moderately terrifying, and talking myself out of buying dishes. I think I have a serious dishes fetish. How many plates does a girl need??!
I love my friends, my extended family, driving with the radio blaring, and sightseeing at the nerdiest places imaginable, but more than anything, I love Jesus Christ and I want to live my life for Him.
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My Interests

Eating sushi. Really, all I need in life is sushi to be happy.

I'd like to meet:

Paul Wylie, Clay Aiken, Kristi Yamaguchi, and other people I get fangirly over, because you can never have too many fangirl photos.

Music:

Bands, Singers, & Musicians: Emm Gryner, Celine Dion, Chantal Kreviazuk, Superchic[k], Kelly Clarkson, Billy Joel, John Mayer, Maroon 5, Audio Adrenaline, Ok Go, Andrea Bocelli, Nichole Nordeman, Michael Buble, 98 Degrees, Destiny's Child, Daniel Bedingfield, Katie Melua, Clay Aiken, Jack Johnson, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Audrey de Montigny, Natasha St Pier, Stevie Wonder, Martina Sorbara, James Taylor, Theresa Sokyrka, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Simon & Garfunkel, Elton John, Chicago, The Carpenters, Vanessa Mae, Mariah Carey, Andre Rie

Musicals & Operas: Tristan und Isolde, Chess, Sound of Music, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, The Magic Flute, Carmen, Siegfried

Composers: Aaron Copland, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Leonard Bernstein, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alfred Reed, Astor Piazzolla, Jean Sibelius, Gustav Mahler, Jenny Post!

Movies:

The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, Bon Voyage, The American President, Amélie, The Incredibles, Notting Hill, Miracle, My Best Friend's Wedding, You've Got Mail, Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde 2, Mean Girls, Love Actually, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Finding Neverland, Gone With the Wind, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Wedding Singer, The Sound of Music, A Very Long Engagement

Television:

Now: Gilmore Girls, The Office, Dancing with the Stars, American IdolThen: Alias the early years, Ed, The Pretender, Jem and the Holograms, Full House, Friends

Books:

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo, Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy, Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Confessions of a Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella, Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw - Will Ferguson

Heroes:

Besides the easy answer of Jesus Christ: Megan Wing & Aaron Lowe, Josee Chouinard, Kristi Yamaguchi, Corrie Ten Boom, Elisabeth Elliot, and my grandma - Olene Brunetta Markham