Welcome to my page! I am a long-time and somewhat addicted Wikipedia user, but sadly sometimes a rather sporadic editor. I do possess many random and disparate interests, which I try to put to use (and fuels my slight userbox addiction).
That annoying thing known as real life (school in particular) has a tendency to get in the way of my computer time, but I do what I can :)
Grammar (Yes, it's important!)
| USage decline
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This user uses American English, but is appalled at its rapid and continuing deterioration.
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to
too
two | This user thinks that too many people have no idea how to use words that they should have learned in grade two. |
they
he or she | This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage. |
| its & it's | This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you. |
| Majority ≠ right
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This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.
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| AIM-Able | This user understands AIM talk perfectly well, but does not seriously use it. Ever. |
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I know quite a bit about a lot of random things, but where I specialize on Wikipedia is grammar. I am a stickler for proper grammar and cannot resist fixing a grammar mistake when I see one.
I will end up editing any number of pages, usually making corrections as I traipse around the great procrastinating tool known as Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects =)
I have lived in New York all my life (was born in Manhattan, grew up in White Plains, and am currently attending college in Purchase, NY), and as a result am attempting to contribute to those pages of which I have local knowledge. I watch way too much TV, and am as a result able to contribute to those relevant pages. While my favorite tv show changes often, I am a big fan of dramas, especially supernatural ones, but I also enjoy humour. Some of my favorite shows that I know way too much about include Alias, Star Trek Voyager (and the general trek universe), Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, CSI (New York and Miami), Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, JAG, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Doctor Who, Pokemon, Firefly, and more.
For disclosure purposes, or just so you can understand me better, I am an American female in her late teens (college-age). While my beliefs do fall strongly toward the liberal end of the spectrum (at least in the United States), I work hard to conform to WP:NPOV.
Things That Make My Day
[edit]"I'm surrounded by idiots" -Scar
How I feel some days =P
"Do or do not, there is no try" -Yoda
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" -Lord Acton
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals" -Winston Churchill
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" -John Keats
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup" -Unknown
"Operation this-will-most-likely-end-badly is a go" -Lt. Col John Sheppard, Stargate Atlantis
"I reject your reality and subsititute my own!" Adam Savage, Mythbusters
