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Well, I have decided to get myself a blog here on Today.Com, so I guess it is time to introduce myself. I am Alexandra Victoria Hollingshead, I live on Long Island in New York, I was born on September 2nd in 1991. I am a writer, so most of what you will see in my blog is my writing - probably none of my good writing, but who knows. I am currently preparing for NaNoWriMo, so expect to see a lot of my blogging centered around that until December. I am a japanophile, a headbanger, a dino geek, a linguist, a history nerd, and a number of other things. I hope to major in East Asian Studies with an emphasis on Japan with a minor in Creative Writing and perhaps Mythology and/or Ancient History. I am applying to UBC, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Ohio State in Columbus, Washington in St. Louis, Gettysburg, and perhaps Michigan at Ann Arbor. I will probably ramble a bit about that, as well, as it is a horrible, tedious, and unpleasant process to apply to all of these schools. I got a 1970 on my SAT I and I got a 32 on my ACT. I am currently taking Humanities, Economics/Government, Japanese History & Civilization, AP Art History, AP Literature, Creative Writing, Creative Film, AP Biology (unofficially - I already took it, but I am sitting in on the class again this year), and Forensics/Psychology. I am a fan of arterial blood spray - so Asian horror is a thing for me (Machine Girl for the win?). I am an otaku, a gamer girl - you can figure the rest out for yourself, I suppose.

As a writer, I write mostly what I read: fantasy, sci-fi, dark romance, and drama. I cannot stand Twilight, I consider it to be an appauling piece of literature and it doesn’t deserve the fandom it has. I can deal with Harry Potter and Inheritance, although neither are really my favorites (but I did grow up on the former, so it has a place in my heart all the same). Some of my favorite stories include Temeraire (Naomi Novik), The Two Towers (JRR Tolkien), Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson), The Worm Ouroboros (ER Eddison), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare), and a poem called Anactoria (Swinburne). I have read more books than I can count, though, so don’t expect me to name them all. Due to English classes in school, I hate just about any novel that has to do with women’s rights, World War II, or any period of oppression for African Americans - it isn’t that I don’t care, but if it isn’t Shakespeare, it is about a group of people who were being put down. Could we please break away from that, just this once?

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