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Mira

Hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour

About Me

Twixt day and nite, in the soft velvet twilight, you will find me dancing. I am crazy and eclectic and goofy, silly and loving and loyal and stubborn and clumsy. I love helping people in any way I can. I love performing (I adore singing, dancing, and acting,playing piano)and I enjoy making costumes, photography, drawing, and painting. I enjoy learning as much as I can and I am especially fascinated with anthropology/archaeology (I love studying cultures and peoples new and ancient)

I am NOT your typical girl that loves shopping and chit chats about latest gossip and worries about fashion. I am a geek that plays video games,reads comics, role plays, watches anime, and I'm proud of it. I am also an outdoors person that loves hiking, biking, kayaking, horseback riding.. I value complete and utter honesty, even if it's blunt, rather than polite bullshit. I collect swords. I slip into random dialects because I can and do. I enjoy twisted and random humor.

I'm too lazy to blog here, so if you'd like you can also visit my online journal at http://herudil.livejournal.com

As an attempt to discourage serial adding, please do not just send me an add request without some message as to why on earth you want to add in the first place.


TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Mira aka Alaria Zein
Birthday: October 12, 1982
Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon
Current Location: La Jolla, CA
Eye Color: varying shades of hazel, left eye half grey
Hair Color: brown
Height: 5'5"
Right Handed or Left Handed: South Paw!
Your Heritage: 100% Lebanese
The Shoes You Wore Today: Sandals, and roller blades
Your Weakness: chocolate, cute kids/animals, and "Where's the Girl" from Scarlet Pimpernel
Your Fears: not finding love and ending up married to my career
Your Perfect Pizza: Tomato, cheese, mushroom, sprinkle on some basil and oregano
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Get in shape, do well in school, and have an overall good year
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: rofl
Thoughts First Waking Up: The sun isn't out, do I have to get up?
Your Best Physical Feature: Eyes
Your Bedtime: I sleep?
Your Most Missed Memory: Hiking around England and Scotland
Pepsi or Coke: neither
MacDonalds or Burger King: eww O-o
Single or Group Dates: Both are fun; single's more romantic, I guess?
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither, I prefer hot herbal tea,danke
Chocolate or Vanilla: CHOCOLATE
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Do you Smoke: nay, I do not
Do you Swear: Sometimes, but Shakesperean insults are so much more fun
Do you Sing: All the time!
Do you Shower Daily: Why yes, I do
Have you Been in Love: Yes
Do you want to go to College: Finished two bachelors degrees,in medical school now
Do you want to get Married: Someday, when I meet the right man
Do you belive in yourself: Yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: Yes :x
Do you think you are Attractive: Yes
Are you a Health Freak: Erm, it's more like I know what's medically healthy but I don't necessarily follow it (please see aforementioned weakness of chocolate)
Do you get along with your Parents: Yes, much better when I'm not living at home
Do you like Thunderstorms: Looooove them
Do you play an Instrument: Piano, anun (arabic harp), do vocal cords count?
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes
In the past month have you Smoked: Nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Nope
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Need a man to do that
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: bleah
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Nope
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Yes!
In the past month have you been on Stage: No, but I've been on camera
In the past month have you been Dumped: Nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: Nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: Nope
Ever been Drunk: Yes
Ever been called a Tease: Yes
Ever been Beaten up: .....wth?? O_o No
Ever Shoplifted: *starting to wonder about the author of this survey*
How do you want to Die: In the arms of the person I love, or do something awesome, like skydiving
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Happy =)
What country would you most like to Visit: New Zealand,Japan, England and Scotland again
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Blue
Favourite Hair Color: Doesn't matter
Short or Long Hair: Preferably not bald, and no mullets, plz
Height: As tall/taller than me
Weight: Not John Candy?
Best Clothing Style: Whatever he's comfortable with. Clean is generally good
Number of Drugs I have taken: Illegal = 0, Over the counter...I don't know
Number of CDs I own: ...A whole lot
Number of Piercings: one in each ear
Number of Tattoos: When I want one I use henna because I'd probably get tired of having something permanently there
Number of things in my Past I Regret: A few, but you learn from those and move on with life
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!I would love to meet everyone if I could!! I love meeting and learning about new people and making new friends. I'm very easy going and laid back; I just like to have a good time with kindred people, be it lazing at home or living it up on the town. I'm up for anything and I'm always willing to try something new.
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My Interests

Travelling! I love seeing new places and meeting new people. Back to Lebanon soon =D !

I love to dance, any type, anywhere. Latin dancing and belly dancing are love. Lyric and ballet are foundation. You ask me to learn a new style and I will.

I sing primarily musical theatre, followed by opera, jazz, folk, new age/celtic. Singing is tied with dancing in terms of my artistic passions; I love expression through voice.

Besides that, I love acting, making costumes, painting, sketching, reading books, being outdoors, soccer hiking, horseback riding, biking, rollerblading, kayaking, atving, watching movies, hanging out with friends, and living it up. I'll always try anything new, as long as I'm living life to its fullest

I'd like to meet:

People who are laidback, fun, like to hang out and have a good time! A litte touch of craziness never hurt ;)

Music:

The genres I listen to most are musical theatre, classical/opera and rock. I love Sondheim, Jekyll and hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel, Avenue Q, Spamalot,Phantom of the Opera to name a few and my kinda rock ranges from 60s and 70s goodness like the Beatles, to Flogging Molly, Dresden Dolls, U2, Aerosmith,Type O Negatve, Flaming Lips, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Air, Mazzy Star, zero 7, Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, RHCP, STP, Juno Reactor,etc. My favorite classical music pieces are Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Debussy's Children's Corner, and a multitude of operas like La Boheme,Tosca, Le Nozze di Figaro,Magic Flute,etc.
Other music: Movie soundtracks and music to Japanese anime and video games music, esp Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda. I love music with a good rhythm like Latin salsa/flamenco (Jesse Cook and Segovia, mmm) and Arabic music, swing, and jazz (Charles Mengus, Miles Davis,Duke Ellington,Ella Fitzgerald, to name a few). Besides that, I'll listen to basically anything except country or new rap/ pop

Movies:

Go see 300!!! Dear Frankie and Boondock Saints are two awesome movies for very different reasons.I love a wide variety. I love good fantasy/sci fi/comic based, so I am a fan of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Spiderman,X-men, Sin City, Batman Begins; thought provoking (Requiem for a Dream, Traffic, Donnie Darko etc); witty, random comedy (aka Royal Tennenbaums, Emperor's New Groove), and the occasional horror/thriller ( 28 days later is awesome for example). I like Vampire stuff so I also really like Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust and Interview with the Vampire. I am also very much a Disney child, and I love Japanese animated movies, esp those of Miyazaki. And I have a penchant for old movies and old actors!

Television:

I don't really watch TV O_o Shows that I would watch and will once in a blue moon: House MD, Family Guy. And it sucks that they cancelled Firefly, because that show was awesome.

Books:

I love being introduced to new books and I'll read almost anything. I need to finish Portrait of the Artist as Young Man. I'm a big fan of sci fi /fantasy: Neil Gaiman: (American Gods, Neverwhere) Piers Anthony (Xanth, Incarnations of Immortality, Mode, and Adept series) but I read Anne McCaffrey, Robert Jordan, Robert Aspirin, Terry Brooks, and of course the ever immortal Tolkien, and my favorite authors as a young girl: CS Lewis (Narnia) and Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn, Tamsin).

I love classics like Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Wuthering Heights, and my favorite, Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, etc. I love Shakespeare and Whitman and Ibsen and Poe, as well as other poets (especially romantic), my favorite being Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, and Percy. I love a variety of other books such as The Da Vinci Code, Memoirs of a Geisha, books by Amy Tan, the Shogun series by James Clavell, the list can go on. I also love alot of manga and comics, especially Neil Gaiman and Craig Thompson*drools*

Heroes:

my sister, my brothers, my friends. Those who remember to take the time to appreciate the beauty of the world around them, those who continue to struggle against the injustices that are also present in the world