About Me

Fall of 2013 was one of the scariest, most exciting, and most ridiculous seasons of my life. I moved away from home to live in a dorm for the first time, started a long distance relationship with my very supportive and amazing boyfriend, and moved in with the most challenging and godawful room mates no one except the likes of Stephen King could have dreamt up. Stephen, if you did this to me I'm very flattered because you're my hero, but PLEASE TAKE IT BACK! All of the changes and challenges I've experienced since move in weekend have built up within me a toxicity the likes of which this planet has never experienced before that can only be released with heavy venting and artistic expression. And I know it's common for someone to think that their bad room mate experiences are the worst, but this place has been a nightmare complete with Kitchen Cry Fest 2013, full on airborne attacks masked as Come to Jesus Meetings, and wild women weeping and running into the night at 3 in the morning going God knows where. I'm surprised Stephen hasn't killed any of us off yet to be honest! 

Anyway, through these experiences and challenges all I've wanted to do was write about it. I've doodled and drawn my little heart out, but I've wanted to get it out as more than just a page in my notebook. I wanted to blog, and I wanted to blog HARD! I wanted to talk to people who understood! I wanted to share my experiences with people who could relate. You know, those people who you pass on the street and you just think "That person gets it."  Now of course I already have a person who gets it, but I'm stingy and an only child and I WANT MORE. Hence, the creation of this blog. 

Now I have a confession, I don't really know how to internet. And as one might imagine, blogging requires a decent knowledge of how to internet. I've been learning and doing a fairly good job of it, but it's a slow process. I feel as if I'm much older than my physical years every time I read something that tells me to use HTML, or the word Favicon shows up. It's a new language, and I've never been good at foreign languages. I feel like learning ASL this semester has been way easier than trying to figure out this blog business, and my left handedness makes the visual part so confusing! But not knowing the internet isn't the only thing you need to know about me! Let's start with the basics.

My name is Ashley, and I am very handsome. As I've already mentioned I'm left handed. I once had an art history professor tell me this meant I was sinister, because sinister is the Latin word for left-handed. He tied this in with Da Vinci and all I heard was "You're an art genius with awesome hair, take over the world now!" I like to write and create things. I love humor and I'm more likely to put something funny on TV than something that's going to make me sad. I have a huge imagination, and one of my favorite hobbies is creating characters with detailed back stories. These characters play a daily role in my life. I'm in college, though you wouldn't know it by the amount of candy I tend to carry around in my pockets. And last but not least, if Ron Swanson and Liz Lemon miraculously had a love child, it would be my spirit animal.

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Ashley, your fearless blogger.