Let's see now- me, me, me, me, me. What is there to tell? Let's think. I've been described by people many times over. I'm "Miss Priss" "Krusty" (after Krusty the Clown from the Simpsons, due to my odd laugh- that one probably needed to be explained) "demonic" "vicious" "sweet" "spineless" "not the biggest witch in the world" "brown-nose" "suck-up" "cool nerd" "nerd" "genius" (ha)"a pleasure" "funny" "dedicated" "responsible" "pwcf" "young author" "weird" "psycho" "non-cynical" "Webgoddess" "nice" "mean" "best friend" "bestest friend" "Munchkin" (I'm 5'4" though, this comes from an unfortunate casting in the Wiz) "Trouble" "feminist" and my absolute favorite, "Superwoman"

So, as you can see, the person I present to the world is somewhat complex and can be taken in a variety of ways. Imagine the me that I keep secret- it's downright confusing!

Let's move on to some simple facts. I live in a suburb of Chicago and am a junior at the local high school. I lived in Chicago until I was nine and still have a strong fondness for the city (and possibly a slight Chicago accent, according to Erin). What's great about living where I do now is that when I was a young kid we'd always drive by my high school campus and I'd think about how green the lawn was and how nice the school looked, and now I go there (little did I know...). I live with my parents, Mom and Dad, and my brothers, Ned and Jake. I'm the middle kid and the only girl, which I suppose would cause great psych problems for anyone not already as far gone as I am. In school, I flourish. Not to brag or anything (this is a lie) but I comfortably and very happily occupy a place at the top of my class. Intelligence and a paranoid desire to do well is not all I am, but it does shape a large part of my life. Don't I sound oh so humble? (But come on, how can you say "I have a 4.490 GPA" humbly?) So I suppose I'm a touch conceited, too.

But what about my personality? Most people I know think I'm sweet, and I guess that's because I really don't have the backbone to ever do anything really evil to anyone. But I do stand up for myself and am very stubborn when I know I'm right about something. I'm quiet in a loud kind of way, and I actually praise myself on my sarcasm. Be it a gift or a sin, there are times when I even make myself laugh. I'm a classic procrastinator, always knowing that I 'really should get on that project' but then finding a book to curl up with instead. I read tons more than anyone I know, and not even because I have time on my hands. Actually, my one big wish is for someone somewhere to realize that all this time we've all been wrong and there are actually 25 hours in the day. A lot of my conscious time is spent in a daydream or somewhere close to it. I might be kind of ditzy sometimes. That, or naive. I prefer naive. I have a ton of opinions, but in most cases don't feel the need to share what I'm thinking. I don't exactly keep to myself, but most people don't know what's really going on in my head for the majority of a conversation. Oh, and just to give you that wonderful contrast, I'm incredibly talkative. I once spent three hours on the telephone talking to the same person.

I change quite often. The depth of the change varies from time to time, but I swear, sometimes I change course two or three times a year. It's hard for others to deal with sometimes, but usually I flow into the differences pretty smoothly.

I'm anti a lot of things and people, but I never hate without a reason, and I never act on hate without intense motivation. So although I don't exactly make an effort to like things no matter what, for the most part I'm rather agreeable.

Why "Ms. Rose"? If you didn't know, it is a name I've given myself. My real name is something that comes from a character on a spoof soap opera. I chose Rose (1)because roses are one of my favorite flowers, (2)the song "Furious Rose" by Lisa Loeb describes how I felt my life was going when I started this place (it's changed now, but that song still represents one of my big fears), (3) taken out of context, Furious Rose can also describe me when I find something I see as an injustice, (4) some of the best free graphics I've found are roses, so I'm likin' the convenient factor in all of this. Also, around the time of the Titanic-craze, it was rumored that I resembled Kate Winslet. I don't know- do you see the similarity?

OK, some things I love and can't live without are:

• FRIENDS (ya know, like Erin, Jacqui, Matt, Erica, Nadia, Val, Josh, Melissa, Anne, Tony, and those tons of other people that have yet to be added to this ever-changing list of cool humans) and all those other people that make my day just that much brighter, including all the oddities I call buds from school and my abnormally large family, but there's just too many of them to list 'em all
• Movies- anything but the 1st Terminator, Predator, Aliens, and Godzilla. I mostly adore romances, comedies, musicals, and most things based in reality.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer- it's on the WB on Tuesdays at 7. I openly admit that I'm obsessed (to see for yourself, check Roots)
• Music- gotta love it, from Blues Traveler to Sarah McLachlan to oldies on the radio.
• SemiSonic- does not fall under "music" because although they have provided me with some of my favorite tunes, the very talented drummer and Dan Wilson make my heart happy.
• Mice- or any other cute rodent; I have one at the moment. Yes, I bought it from a store, and it lives in a cage, not my basement.
• Tennis- for people who can't play, my friends and I sure have a gas when we start hitting the ball around. Plus, it works wonders when I'm really angry at someone. "No, little bro, I swear I never picture your face on the garage door..."
• Aleve, or Motrin- I have a bad back that hurts like hell when it decides to, and painkillers have sometimes become my best friends. People say that eventually I'll become the only person who had to go into re-hab to ween herself off a non-addictive drug.
• Writing- if you can't say it, you can always type it, and that's just a beautiful thing
• Quotes- there's just something about them that I can't get over. Maybe I just like words.
• Chat rooms and the Internet in general- last summer I became addicted, literally. It got so I had to spend a minimum two hours on-line a night. Over the winter I thought I had kicked the habit, but now with this page....let's just say the coming months look bad.
• Mocha Lattes- to make: fill half your coffee cup with coffee, then fill it the rest of the way with heated milk. Next, top it off with as much chocolate syrup as your sweet tooth can stand. Yummy!
• Star Wars- some would say that this goes in the movie category, but they're wrong. With the books, movies, action figures, and my dream of becoming a Jedi with a purple lightsaber, I'd say it's grown into a full-blown fetish.
• Everything else that doesn't annoy me- for lack of time, let's just say this excludes sports-broadcasters, the number 69 and every other vulgar phrase in the world, cults, and the mind-bogglingly stupid (like Wallace Press- you're welcome, daddio)

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