Hey, I'm still alive!
Bringing back an old meme to update people on what's going on with me. In case you still care. I wouldn't be upset if you don't, since I know I haven't been around...
FIRST NAME: Nara.
AGE: 22
LOCATION: New York!! I live in the Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy area of Brooklyn, though I spend the majority of my time at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts building in Manhattan's Greenwich Village area.
OCCUPATION: I'm currently a full-time masters student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. I also have two part-time jobs, one signing out A/V equipment to ITP students for their projects, and another as an office assistant for the Graduate Acting program one floor above ours, for a total of 23 hours a week.
PARTNER: Nope! Single and quite happy about that right now.
KIDS: Probably not until I'm at least 30, but I do consider having kids to be one of the most important things I want to do in life, and one of the things I most look forward to.
BROTHERS/SISTERS: I have a younger sister with whom my relationship is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I also technically have two step-brothers, ages 8 and 11, but we have a policy of mutual un-acknowledgment.
PARENTS: My parents got divorced during my junior year of high school, things were complicated for a while, but they're mostly good now. You can read the tl;dr version here if you really care. My dad's remarried but I don't acknowledge my stepmom as a parent. (She's not even old enough to be my mother...)
CLOSE FRIENDS: I have some really good friends like
walkofeternity, with whom I've been friends with since middle school, which is pretty awesome that we've known each other that long and are still close. I only have one friend from high school whom I'm still regularly in touch with, although I meet up with some others now and then when I'm back in Texas. As far as college friends go, I have one really close friend who wound up being like the little brother I never had, and I <3 him and wish I'd get to see him more often now that I'm in NY. In my final year of college, I also ended up spending a lot more time with my fellow students in the Design program, which turned out to be a good thing because a lot of them also wound up in New York. We meet up as a group pretty regularly, once or twice a month, and a few of us sometimes hang out in between as well.
As far as my program now goes, I have 2 really close friends, Gaby and Kevin, whom I spend the majority of my time with. They're awesome and fun and it's kind of like having the close college friends I never really had because I spent too much time in undergrad focused on my boyfriends. There's also a handful of people I hang out with pretty regularly at our informal gatherings and weekly Thursday Night Out (TNO), but I'm not sure I'd call them friends quite yet.
And of course there's my roommate Dannel! Who was actually my friend from CMU. We don't get to hang out that much because of our schedules, but we watch Nikita together and have video game marathons every now and then, and sometimes we just have beer and eat pizza.
PETS: The parakeet I bought for my mom before I left for college just died this past winter. :( Here at our Brooklyn apartment, we've thrown the idea of getting a cat around but that idea hasn't really gone anywhere (yet).
3-5 THINGS GOING ON IN MY LIFE:
♥ How are you all?
You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.
Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.
FIRST NAME: Nara.
AGE: 22
LOCATION: New York!! I live in the Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy area of Brooklyn, though I spend the majority of my time at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts building in Manhattan's Greenwich Village area.
OCCUPATION: I'm currently a full-time masters student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. I also have two part-time jobs, one signing out A/V equipment to ITP students for their projects, and another as an office assistant for the Graduate Acting program one floor above ours, for a total of 23 hours a week.
PARTNER: Nope! Single and quite happy about that right now.
KIDS: Probably not until I'm at least 30, but I do consider having kids to be one of the most important things I want to do in life, and one of the things I most look forward to.
BROTHERS/SISTERS: I have a younger sister with whom my relationship is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I also technically have two step-brothers, ages 8 and 11, but we have a policy of mutual un-acknowledgment.
PARENTS: My parents got divorced during my junior year of high school, things were complicated for a while, but they're mostly good now. You can read the tl;dr version here if you really care. My dad's remarried but I don't acknowledge my stepmom as a parent. (She's not even old enough to be my mother...)
CLOSE FRIENDS: I have some really good friends like
walkofeternity, with whom I've been friends with since middle school, which is pretty awesome that we've known each other that long and are still close. I only have one friend from high school whom I'm still regularly in touch with, although I meet up with some others now and then when I'm back in Texas. As far as college friends go, I have one really close friend who wound up being like the little brother I never had, and I <3 him and wish I'd get to see him more often now that I'm in NY. In my final year of college, I also ended up spending a lot more time with my fellow students in the Design program, which turned out to be a good thing because a lot of them also wound up in New York. We meet up as a group pretty regularly, once or twice a month, and a few of us sometimes hang out in between as well.As far as my program now goes, I have 2 really close friends, Gaby and Kevin, whom I spend the majority of my time with. They're awesome and fun and it's kind of like having the close college friends I never really had because I spent too much time in undergrad focused on my boyfriends. There's also a handful of people I hang out with pretty regularly at our informal gatherings and weekly Thursday Night Out (TNO), but I'm not sure I'd call them friends quite yet.
And of course there's my roommate Dannel! Who was actually my friend from CMU. We don't get to hang out that much because of our schedules, but we watch Nikita together and have video game marathons every now and then, and sometimes we just have beer and eat pizza.
PETS: The parakeet I bought for my mom before I left for college just died this past winter. :( Here at our Brooklyn apartment, we've thrown the idea of getting a cat around but that idea hasn't really gone anywhere (yet).
3-5 THINGS GOING ON IN MY LIFE:
- Grad school, obviously. It eats up my time, but I absolutely love it. I'm doing exactly what I wanted to do for the past 4 years in undergrad but never really found a community for. It helps that my program is crazy and unconventional and we get to do a lot of things you'd never think people would get to do in an academic setting and get away with it, but somehow we do. For example, I'm taking a class called "Big Games", for which we've had to play World of Warcraft. And this week we're playing Assassin, water guns and all. And I'm doing a presentation on LJ roleplaying and
campfuckudie. I'm having the time of my life, and it's awesome. ♥ - Did I mention that we had to play World of Warcraft for class? I may have put just a liiittle more time into that than was necessary for the class. But it helps that one of my best friends, Robin, and her husband both play. Although she roped me into the Refer-a-Friend
scamprogram and I upgraded my trial to a paid membership and now I feel obligated to keep playing even though it's no longer required for class. (But only until Dragon Age 2 comes out; then my gaming schedule will be occupied for a while. ;p) - 2010 was the year of sci-fi TV shows, but 2011 is turning out to be the year of historical k-dramas. It helps that so many of them are on Hulu now, I guess. As somebody said, though, they really are like crack... once you start a show, you just can't stop watching. So far I've watched 성균관 스캔들, 선덕여왕, 추노 and IRIS. Okay, IRIS wasn't a historical drama but the reviews were so good I wanted to know what it was all about. And they were right! So good!
- On a more serious note, a month ago today, I fractured my elbow slipping on an icy sidewalk in Manhattan. I was in a splint for a week, and since then I've been wearing this badass looking brace (although the novelty of the "robot arm" and "bionic woman" comments has kind of worn off and is becoming annoying). It's locked so I can't move my elbow at all, which, you can imagine, has made my life rather complicated and inconvenient and simple things can be quite difficult. I'm starting physical therapy today, which I heard will suck, but it's definitely necessary.
- ...I dunno, being single and living in New York? Life is good. I really can't complain. ♥
♥ How are you all?