Profile

Check out my real life here.

If you don't know me, hi, I'm Ashley. At the time of this writing, I'm 26 (though I will tell you 21 if I meet you in person) and have finally just gotten my BA in English after 8 years. Due to personal reasons, I am no longer capable of writing in my LJ, but I miss the habit of it, so it was necessary to start a separate journal.

I have a lot of the same interests as any self-respecting nerd girl. I'm also very into some weird things, too. For example: I'm really interested in dreams. I frequently have very vivid dreams with detailed plotlines (and no, I swear I'm not making them up!). I like theories about time travel and alternate universes. I'm interested in psychology and enjoy holding drawn-out, speculative philosophical conversations as well. I like Victorian England, sunsets and sunrises, 50s/60s boy bands and other nostalgia, just nostalgia in general. I love the artwork from Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians (a main reason why those have always been my favorite Disney movies), and have always said I'd love to live in 1960s animated London. I'd always give (almost) anything to make my screen 3-dimensional when I watch it so I can just step inside. Similarly, I'm finding a growing love of history, because I like to read facts and stories about other times and places and can almost feel that I'm there if I lose myself just enough in it. Pretty awesome feeling.

I enjoy creative writing, but you won't see much fiction here. I generally (unless otherwise indicated) write straight from life, about my normal day-to-day activities. I will use this as I used my LJ, as a reference point, so I can go back at any time and remember something bizarre or happy or even terrible that happened to me. For this reason, I do my best to report events and feelings as exactly as possible. I like to write about my life in a creative way, making a normal day of work sound like an action thriller, for example, but without bending the truth at all. Therefore, the people I interact with the most are listed below as my "CAST OF CHARACTERS".

I'm very busy these days and don't have too much time for writing, but with any luck, I will become a bit more disciplined in that area.

I have a lot of celeb/geeky crushes, so you will probably hear some girlish squeeing from time to time. My apologies. I swear a lot. I'm very much an atheist and, no, I will not be swayed. Politically I consider myself an independent with heavy liberal leanings. I'm epileptic, but only have seizures in my sleep. Though undiagnosed, there is a good chance that I have OCD and/or ADD.

Um...that's the basics, I guess.

CAST OF CHARACTERS
The Mormon: The love of my life. I won't use his real name here, because he wishes to remain anonymous in my entire life and mind. But he'll probably only come up in private entries, so those of you who wish to remain blissful in your own minds needn't worry.
Mom and Dad: My parents, obviously.
Casey: My younger sister.
Woobie: My even younger brother.
Jessica: My oldest Florida friend.
Evan: Jessica's boyfriend, who has also become a good friend and sort of big-brother-figure to me.
Becky: I've known her for a few years, but we've really only been friends for a little over a year. I'd actually been friends with her sister Katie for several years before that.
Manny: Becky's husband, and also a good friend.
David, Kasey, and Granny: Becky's parents and grandmother. I spend almost as much time with them as with Becky and Manny.
Nicole: Another good friend who I've known almost as long as Jess.
Mommy and Daddy Mitchell: Nicole's parents. I currently live with them.
Monica: Another old Florida friend.