Day 1: Write a short autobiography...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:08:00 -0400

Being a nerd and other things that are exponentially awesome about me…

by: Megan

I am a nerd and I stand tall… at 5’ 10” to be exact. Most people, including myself, were brought up to believe that being a nerd is lame, but I can personally assure you that they are wrong. Being a nerd is fun. Being a nerd gets you places. Being a nerd teaches you things that you will never learn from watching the Jersey Shore or reading some trashy celebrity magazine. Being a nerd is my life.

Part 1: Nerd-like tendencies develop at a rapid pace…

There are a few things that I remember from earlier in my life. One moment i will always remember was breaking my toe pretending to be Spiderman. When you watch television, little girls always appear to admire of have crushes on the super heroes but I believe that they have potrayed us wrong. You see, I wanted to be a superhero. I wanted spidey powers and god damn it, if I wasn’t going to get any then I was going to at least pretend like I had them.

Day after day, I would jump from couch to couch in my living room pretending to fling my webs and save people. I was never very coordinated, don’t let years I spent playing softball fool you. It was no surprise when I eventually flung off the couch and broke my toe. It was a traumatizing event for the toddler version of me. I even stopped watching spiderman for awhile but I eventually moved on from my toddler nerd strike and went on to bigger and better things.

The day I discovered Buffy the Vampire Slayer literally changed my life. Words cannot describe how much I looked up to her. Where else are you going to find a pretty blonde girl who kicks total vampire and demon ass in a dress? She was the most cool person on that planet and I would have given anything to be her when I got older.

I even trained myself to be a slayer. Often, I would go into my backyard doing kicks and punches pretending I was fighting demons. Sometimes, I would even grab sticks from the ground and pretend to stake vampires. You can only imagine my horror when I found out it was going to be canceled in 2003. I was very upset and could not comprehend why on earth Sarah Michelle Gellar would want to leave the show. Didn’t she know she has thousand of little girl like me looking up to her? It hurt my little eight year old heart and for years after that my nerdy-ness ceased to exist.

Part Two: Ew Middle School

To say the least, puberty was a little fucker to me. I became fat because I was going to become tall, not that the boys who made fun of me took that into account. Also, I had braces, did not know what clothes to wear, and was really shitty with make-up. The worst thing about middle school is how desperately I wanted to be popular. Not necessarily with rich preppy kids who all were ironically placed into challenge(honors) classes and thought they were the shit, but just with any social group. I personally blame the Disney Channel for this. I mean come on, all Lizzie McGuire ever talked about is how popular she wanted to be. Most of those shows sound great, until you realize years later that they actually kind of fucked you up.

I was so focused on trying to fit in during middle school that I lost sight of myself. No one ever told me it was okay to like whatever I want to and be myself. Most of the time, I just didn’t talk.

Luckily, in eighth grade, I started reading Harry Potter. Harry Potter changed my life and it actually made my life better in middle school. I remember locking myself in my room for entire weekends until I finished those books. They made want to do so many things. Going to a magical school excluded, they made me want to stand p for what is right, make true friends, and start to try to be more comfortable with being myself. For the first time, in awhile things were looking up. I had a somewhat solid group of friends who were both nice and funny.

Part Three: Agh, it’s High School run for your lives…

To be clear, my first two years of high school were pretty much shit. There are very few redeeming qualities about freshman or sophomore year. I still had braces, I was still shit and make-up and did not understand fashion. It didn’t help that I also had developed pretty bad social anxiety from being made fun of at different points in middle school. I assumed that everyone hated me and did not want to talk to me. Of course, I had a few solid friends but that did not change how alone I felt during this time.

Junior year is when I started to feel a little bit more comfortable in my own skin. I started dressing better and I taught myself how to do make-up over the Summer. One of the biggest things that helped me was music and books. The more I heard The Kooks sing the lyrics “I love her because she moves in her own way.” the more I believed that people would like me just for being my own person. It’s a bit cheesy, but it is true. My new found confidence, would also help me develop a solid group of friends who would be with me all the way through senior year.

Senior year had a lot of bad moments and a lot of good ones too. I was having personal issues again and did not know where to turn. I did not feel comfortable talking to most of my friends about it because they would not understand. For awhile, I just wanted to drop out because I could not handle my social anxiety and all of the stress that was put on me.

It must have been fate when I found Buffy again. Buffy was familiar. Her friends were my friends too and this time I truly understood why Buffy means so much to me. Buffy and her friends taught me about being strong. They had real life problems too and if they could slowly get past them why couldn’t I. To be short, the scooby gang made my life feel like it was worth living again. I would never be able to thank Joss Whedon as much as I would like to for writing Buffy. It changed my life more than anything else.

Part 4: Doctor Who and other after high School drabbles…

My dream in life is to travel and help people live better lives. Much like Rose Tyler, I am just a girl fresh out of high school who is bored of her life. There is nothing special here for me yet here I remain. I often wish that I will hear The Tardis and The Doctor will come get me and have me be his companion. I would travel throughout space and time helping people and truly making a difference. Unfortunately, this will never happen so I must find other ways to achieve what I want in life.

I am starting college this fall and I would like to become a teacher. My goal is to help students and make sure school is not a living hell for them like it was for me. I want to be that teacher that stays late as often as possible to help her students and the one that they can talk to if no one else will listen. Making a positive difference in someone’s life is what keeps me going. I love love helping people and I think it will end up being the perfect job for me.

A teacher’s salary is not much, but I know I will find a way to travel. Adventuring though other countries and learning about their cultures is something that is so completely enriching. My life will never feel complete unless I find a way to travel and expand my mind.

Part 5: The end or the beginning the middle, it all depends on perspective.

I can’t believe I am an adult now. There are so many adventures to be had and such little time. You can only hope that your life takes you in a good direction and you feel happy in the end. For now though, I will try my best to make my life great because, in the wise words of Chris Hardwick, “in this life there are no regenerations.”

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Anyway, this is the first time I have wrote since school got out. This was probably longer than the prompt intended, not that I believe anyone will read this anyway. It felt nice to write again though and I am happy I took the time whether the quality was good or not.

Thanks for reading! =)

that70srpc: I find that, when writing bios, it’s really helpful...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:07:12 -0400

that70srpc:

I find that, when writing bios, it’s really helpful to look at a list or a chart like the one above. Picking two or three traits from each chart and building a character based around them will give you a really interesting bio, because they will serve as a reminder that characters need depth and dimension.

Independent and clever.

VS.

Independent, clever, pretentious, and stubborn.

The first combination doesn’t come with any flaws, whereas the second will provide a more dynamic character.

Writing Challenge Write a short autobiography. Write a fanfiction. Review a...

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:06:49 -0400

Writing Challenge

Write a short autobiography.

Write a fanfiction.

Review a movie/book/anything.

Rant about anything.

Write a letter to anybody.

Write about your feelings for someone.

Write a short poem.

Write about anything you want.

Write a love story.

Write a letter to your future self.

Write about anything that’s currently on you mind.

Write a short story.

Write about something you absolutely love.

Write about anything you want.

hpotterfacts: It can be read here!

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:11:10 -0500

hpotterfacts:

It can be read here!