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To start, if you wanna add me as a friend, send me an email first so I know who you are and blah blah blah. I got tired of spam emails and stuff so I changed my settings. Send me an email and I will either send you a friend request or i will tell ya my last name. I enjoy new friends so feel free to send me an email.Okay, this is quite long so..... (deep breath)To start, I love to travel. I have been to England 4 times, Guatemala, and a bunch of places around the US such as Philly, Atlanta, New York, Portland, Boston, Salem, and Daytona Beach (and there are a great deal more. I am currently enrolled at UW-Milwaukee for Sociology because I have such an interest in culture. and thinking about getting into Photojournalism. I read lots of Books like The Da Vinci Code, and Angels and Demons, Anthony Bourdain's book titled The Nasty Bits, as well as various cultural magazines and the like. I love to learn new things. When I could still listen to music (for those of you who don’t know me, I have recently gone deaf), I listened to Eminem, Jay-z, Tupac, and about 8000 different rap artists, but was into many different types of music as well. I also like to go out drinking, although rarely to get drunk. I just love trying new beers, and I think just about every beer made in the U.S., with the exception of microbrews, is complete crap! My favorite beers are Boddingtons Pub Ale (England), Newcastle (also England), Stella Artois, Pilsner Urquell, (Czech Republic?), Peroni (Italy), and Kroenebourg 1664 (France). I have also recently taken up brewing my own beer, and just finished my second 5 gallon batch! (I know, that’s a lot! Don't judge me though, it is the standard in home-brewing). My heroes are only a few. Drew and Kate being the front runners. They are two of the smartest people I have ever met. Had I never met them and listened to their ideas, I would not have ever taken up an interest in culture and society. They have taught me more than anyone could have. Thank you. My other heroes are my Mom, Emily, and my sister. They have taught me the meaning of "friendship" and have endured when everyone else left me behind in my time of crisis. For those of you who don’t know me I am referring to sticking by my side when I lost my hearing. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. You are true friends! In addition, I think the following will help to explain a bit more about whom I am. I think its fucking hilarious that Pam Anderson is fighting for PETA (against KFC and their use of hormones to make their chickens larger), and at the same time has more artificial largeness in her chest than an entire chicken farm. I think its funny as hell when physics professors talk about star trek like it’s true, and even funnier when the kid sitting up front (who’s actually reading a star trek novel) agrees. I think its interesting how judgmental some religious types are of other people, when in fact they are breaking their own religious creed about not being judgmental in the first place. I think it’s crazy how every night I try to be asleep before Becker comes on because I fucking hate it so much, but every night I end up staying awake to watch it…at 11…and 11:30. I think its insane how Mensa considers themselves a society with highly developed brains, who actively enroll in the group by taking standardized tests specifically for the organization, when it is proven that most people who are smart, are smart in different ways which are not detected through tests. I think its uncanny how we think we are Gods “perfect” creation, although my right testicle is bigger than my left breast above my giant foot, but at least its not as bad as my scary ass toes. I think its boisterously entertaining that we consider ourselves to be “honest and law abiding” until that gust of wind catches the car door, and we go Miraculously from “honest” to “new parking space”.(The following happens frequently so forgive me for adding this next part) If you are a whore (and you can read this far...good for you) do not message me, or send me a friend request. I will deny your request. I have no interest OKAY....................................................... ........................................................... ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *********************************************************** IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW I LOST MY HEARING, READ HERE. I posted this cuz too many people were asking and I got tired of rewriting all this! LOL! I don't know how I lost my hearing. It just happened. I was 11 months old when I lost the left ear and the right ear went over the course of about a month and happened about.. hmm...3 years ago maybe. As far as what I can hear, without my hearing aid in I can't hear squat. If there was a gunshot or something really loud nearby, I would hear it though. When I have my hearing aid in (btw, I only have one because my left ear is considered dead and an aid would do nothing, but it doesn’t bother me because I was a baby when that happened, so I never really noticed) I can hear everything... but the quality of the sound sucks! Its like, really muffled and some sounds I hear don’t make any sense to me and I cant figure out what they are. Like car alarms... I freak sometimes and I’m like "what’s that, what’s that?!" LOLI also have the option of getting something called Cochlear implants that would restore my hearing in both ears (would be weird because like I said, I could never hear out of my left ear, and all the sudden I would be able to again. I even have a place that has offered to pay for the surgery in full, but I don’t want to do it just yet. It is probably hard to understand, but I have an opportunity to learn about deaf culture. I want to take full advantage of my situation and learn as much as I can from it. I have my whole life ahead of me to get the surgery done, you know? I am not scared of it, and I don’t see myself now as any less of a human as anyone else. Actually, it kind of pisses me off because, as I have learned, people assume because someone is deaf, that they are stupid too. I am far from stupid, I think anyway. I even worked for Home Depot in customer service for a couple years after I lost my hearing and everyone was really suprised I was deaf.Um, yes I did have to learn sign language, and I am still learning. I will be taking another class this next semester at UWM. I don’t learn as quickly as I should because I have a tendency to be lazy, and talk instead of signing to people that know sign language (my sis and my ex learned it for me, but otherwise all my other friends are hearing and don’t know sign language or are just now learning it). I also seem to be able to lip-read quite a decent amount with most people, but there are some I cant understand at all. I usually just have people type messages to me on my phone (I will let them use it) if I don’t understand them, and everyone is very understanding about it. I don’t really think that I am all that disadvantaged because of it, but yes there are some things I wish I could do. For instance, I used to have to have one of my friends make phone calls for me, and I just recently got a special phone. I went for....maybe 2 or 3 years without talking on the phone, and now that I can, it is VERY disorienting! Lol! I have a hard time with it but it is getting better.Anyway, any other questions, just ask. I am an open book. .r{}