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Kenzie
The Room | 6/27/2008 Age: 14 Status: Homeschooler Favorite word(s): Caliginous, Blimey, Rootabega, Insane, Trousers, Tatterdemalion, Glabrous, Deipnosophist, Defenestration, Dapper, Geometry, Jazz, Brûlée, Merit, Physchology, Stone, Obtuse, Spaghetti, Prone, Architecture, and millions of others Bio: **WARNING** Who am I? What can I say? I always have a hard time with these "Describe Yourself" things, because...well...I suppose I'm not skilled in telling other people about the inner workings of my mind and what I do from a day-to-day basis - you should just befriend others and learn about them, not try to assess their entire life in a few paragraphs. I'm 14, got plunked into my Freshman year about three weeks after I graduated from Junior High and have been zealously pursuing my schoolwork. However, I have this little tried-and-true thought that's nibbling at my mind - I'm going to love the first couple days of highschool...and then they'll become wearisome. I'm determined to stay zealous, though! (Fat chance...) I really love history, physcology, cooking, designing houses (mostly the blueprint part, but also the innards), children, anything that has to do with worldviews, Theology or the infrequently explored areas of the Bible, graphic design (especially on the web - I operate several undiscovered websites), film (at one point in my life I adamantly wanted to be a director - I've settled down to more homely things, such as a wife and a professional cook =D, but I still have this part of me that prods and pokes me whenever something movie-esque comes along and I often burst out to my parents or the friends around me "Oooh...that'd be a great set! And if you added so-and-so from that other place and then put him there, too, than that'd be perfect!" and proceed to describe an entire plot in 3 minutes flat, totally boring and confusing my friends, but having a whole lot of fun), photography (as with my movie-prone mind, I often see set-ups just begging to be taken as pictures....and almost as often I don't have my camera with me...), I'm a total autodidact, although I think that most homeschoolers are, I play a gazzilion instruments (don't ask me what they are - I'm tired of being known as "The Girl That Plays the Instruments) and I want to play a gazzilion more, I get antsy if I don't feel that I'm being productive and I must have organazation and order, but I'm not a clean freak, although I do have to have my hands busy, I'm NOT a perfectionist, although I do like things to come together nicely and as they should, contrary to public opinion, I'm not introverted, "schedulized" (In other words, I freak if things don't go as planned), quiet, and serious - although I used to be, so lots of times I'm protrayed as being all of the above, I have a foot in everything (from standing by at a surgery for animals in a vet hosipital to providing the footsteps of terrorists on a sound stage), I LOVE sound and often make all of my family members freeze so I can repeat a sound I accidently found by swiping the cake server against the edge of the dishwasher rack or letting an old rake slip and scritch across a blackboard, I'm normally found at four different spots in the house - at the piano composing new songs or rewriting old ones, at the big armchair under the window, armed and dangerous with my iPod (Roy), a mug of water, a sharp pencil and a stack of graph paper, on my bed, doing schoolwork, reading, folding laundry and whatever else needs to be done, or at the computer, maintaining my millions of websites, blogging, or filling out personal profile bits like this one!, I'm a dirty, rotten, terrible, black-hearted, evil sinner, and I'm a total and complete Christian. God is insanely amazing and he keeps scaring the socks off of me with His amazing power and direct way of showing Himself to me and the others around me - and I love Him for that! I'm desperate to cut my hair shorter than it is, play the electric bass in a quirky, down-to-earth, intellegent, non-whiny garage band, to own my own cafe, and to get married. =D About my writing: Well that dream was quickly crushed. When I hit 12, I kind of lost it...I couldn't write anymore, and I got depressed. You can't just lose all your writing talent overnight and be completely unable to churn out good stories like you used to! I had a brain tumour, I just knew it. I was 13 and I was mildly depressed. I couldn't concentrate on schoolwork and I couldn't write. I often lamented on this. And then I got yanked out of the little, dark hole I'd made for myself (by God, of course) and suddenly discovered that I loved to write non-fiction! I loved to narrate my life and my ideas...and it all came back! So I've been writing happily for a while, now. I've been writing more and more and now I'm almost on a roll. Well fancy that...it's 11:30...spent a few minutes more than I thought I would on this! I'm off to go to bed so I can get up early and get to work on some history (currently LOVING the Notgrass American History program!) and iron my clothes! Oh, and I have violin tomorrow...right.. Some of my websites: www.futureparents.lumak.net - My forum for every age (although it's mostly geared towards teens) on parenting. www.theresgenerallymore.wordpress.com - Analyze the world! This one's not as active any more, but I still post from time to time. mboo.wordpress.com - My blog.(You have to send me your Wordpress username so I can add you to my "approved users" list before you can view this one - in order to contact me, pm me on the AP forum; I'm "Chef.") www.youtube.com/OphlyMax - My compositions. This has been kind of neglected, though...YouTube takes forever to download, so I don't really get the time. =P www.thethreescarves.weebly.com - this is the website for the tiny little band my friends and I started. Trust me - this list will grow frequently...(= |