10 Things About Me
Since everyone I know has done this...
1. When I was in utero, I was zapped by some cosmic ray at Cape Canaveral. At least, this is the story I've always been told by my parents, because I'm a science prodigy. Recently, though, I'm starting to wonder if something is going on. Who gets zapped by cosmic rays, anyway? I mean, besides the Fantastic Four. Anyway, I'm a genius in science, but I am pretty much socially inept all the time. I mean, I am better about it, but half the time I say "um" a lot and look around constantly. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up in South Dakota, becuase I didn't like hockey and I would rather watch science documentaries than movies. Also, I was really far ahead of other kids in school and being a girl, that didn't really help me win friends. I have a younger brother who is normal and likes hockey. My parents like him a lot better. My mom was an art teacher and she always hated it that I never could appreciate art and stuff. My dad was always kind of unsure about me. I was kind of lonely growing up, and whenever I thought I had friends they'd pretty much turn on me and spread rumors and try to make me cry.
2. I'm gay. I've known since I was twelve and wanted to kiss my friend Ashley at a sleepover. I really figured it out in high school. I have no problem, myself, with being a lesbian. I understand biology and fact that you're born the way you are and there's no reason being all worried about it. I think I'm maybe a little bi, but only because I'd maybe sleep with Heath Ledger. Mostly, I like girls. Really girly ones. Or, apparently, assassins. I never told my parents until recently, and they don't want to talk to me anymore. They were supposed to come visit and they didn't. I don't know that I can fix this problem since the solution seems to be we leave each other alone for a while. I guess that's what I'm doing.
3. I'm dating Raven Darkholme. You may know her as Mystique. Um. She's really scary, but I love her, and we're...working on it, okay? Dating her is an adventure. A really scare one with good sex. She's--I'd tell you she's sweet beneath the scary, but um, not so much. Still, she's smart as a whip, and deadly, and the most loyal person I've ever met. Loyalty matters a lot to me. Also, she looks damn hot with a gun. I'm not kidding. I think even if she were about to shoot me, that'd be the last thing I'd think. I have some ethical problems dating a paid killer, but not as much as you'd think. That sort of makes me wonder, really.
4. I work for SHIELD, as a geneticst. Really, though, I was hired to keep an eye on my boss, Dr. Essex. Mr. Sinister? I work for him. He's really brilliant and very funny, and he scared the crap out of me when I first showed up to work. But I really like him now. He's been really supportive and a good mentor, and he's...family, I think. My family. So don't badmouth him to me, because I don't want to hear it. Yeah, he's done bad things, but not to me. Loyal, remember? I live in an apartment over the lab, which is in the carriage house of this former bed-and-breakfast in Savannah. It's really hot here. I like going to the beach. I also live with Dr. Essex's girlfriend, my friend Rachel. She's really hot and I kind of had a crush on her, but my evil boss would crucify me if I hit on her. I'm only kidding, Dr. Essex! Sadly, Rachel is more interested in red-eyed men than red-headed women, so we're friends and that's good with me.
(I may have had some wine, what? Dr. Essex filled his out drunk.)
5. I had dinner with Magneto. How many people can say that!!
6. I'm an atheist. Science is my religion. Religion doesn't make any logical sense and there is no evidence for a higher power. My parents were Presbyterian. I had to leave Sunday school when I argued about empirical evidence for faith-based creationism. I was seven.
7. I love French Onion Dip. Therefore, I have to exercise a lot because the light kind sucks. I do Spinlates, which is spinning and pilates. I also like movies--some romantic comedies, comedy, and Christmas movies. I love Christmas movies. I'll watch them whenever. I try to make Dr. Essex watch them, sometimes. He makes me watch horror movies. I used to be scared of them, but nothing much really scares me anymore.
8. I read chick lit fiction to destress, in the bathtub. I love water, and I love swimming, but I really miss ice skating. I took lessons for awhile in figure skating. My mom was so happy because it was artistic, but I hated all the jumping and stupid twirling. I liked skating and making nice, neat lines in the ice. Sometimes circles. I liked to look down at the ice when I skated. None of this was really good for ice skating and my brother was the hockey player, so they let him keep skating and I stopped.
9. I love Tori Amos (I would so do her!). I love most chick music, I guess you'd call it. I went to Lillith Fair. Ha, ha, yeah, I know. I went by myself. Some girl started hitting on me, but when she found out I was a geneticist, she thought I was trying to engineer it so people had only straight babies and was at Lillith Fair checking out the enemy (! I don't know, okay, she'd done a lot of shrooms) and so no one really talked to me. I used to tell girls what I did on dates and their eyes glazed over. Raven asks me about work, now, and has no idea how much I love that she does that. Smart girlfriends for the win!
10. Maybe last night, when I was falling asleep, I thought about what my code name would be. If I needed one. (No, Dr. Essex, it's an villainous alias!) I mean, I don't know what I'm going to do after SHIELD is done with me and I should keep my options open, right? Dr. Essex said he had a lot of labs and I could manage one and research whatever I wanted, and that's really awesome. I don't know that I can have a code name. Everything I come up with sounds dumb. Then I remember Dr. Essex's, and I think maybe Prodigy isn't so bad. (Is there a Prodigy? Is there a place you can look these up? Someone needs to cross-index this stuff.)
1. When I was in utero, I was zapped by some cosmic ray at Cape Canaveral. At least, this is the story I've always been told by my parents, because I'm a science prodigy. Recently, though, I'm starting to wonder if something is going on. Who gets zapped by cosmic rays, anyway? I mean, besides the Fantastic Four. Anyway, I'm a genius in science, but I am pretty much socially inept all the time. I mean, I am better about it, but half the time I say "um" a lot and look around constantly. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up in South Dakota, becuase I didn't like hockey and I would rather watch science documentaries than movies. Also, I was really far ahead of other kids in school and being a girl, that didn't really help me win friends. I have a younger brother who is normal and likes hockey. My parents like him a lot better. My mom was an art teacher and she always hated it that I never could appreciate art and stuff. My dad was always kind of unsure about me. I was kind of lonely growing up, and whenever I thought I had friends they'd pretty much turn on me and spread rumors and try to make me cry.
2. I'm gay. I've known since I was twelve and wanted to kiss my friend Ashley at a sleepover. I really figured it out in high school. I have no problem, myself, with being a lesbian. I understand biology and fact that you're born the way you are and there's no reason being all worried about it. I think I'm maybe a little bi, but only because I'd maybe sleep with Heath Ledger. Mostly, I like girls. Really girly ones. Or, apparently, assassins. I never told my parents until recently, and they don't want to talk to me anymore. They were supposed to come visit and they didn't. I don't know that I can fix this problem since the solution seems to be we leave each other alone for a while. I guess that's what I'm doing.
3. I'm dating Raven Darkholme. You may know her as Mystique. Um. She's really scary, but I love her, and we're...working on it, okay? Dating her is an adventure. A really scare one with good sex. She's--I'd tell you she's sweet beneath the scary, but um, not so much. Still, she's smart as a whip, and deadly, and the most loyal person I've ever met. Loyalty matters a lot to me. Also, she looks damn hot with a gun. I'm not kidding. I think even if she were about to shoot me, that'd be the last thing I'd think. I have some ethical problems dating a paid killer, but not as much as you'd think. That sort of makes me wonder, really.
4. I work for SHIELD, as a geneticst. Really, though, I was hired to keep an eye on my boss, Dr. Essex. Mr. Sinister? I work for him. He's really brilliant and very funny, and he scared the crap out of me when I first showed up to work. But I really like him now. He's been really supportive and a good mentor, and he's...family, I think. My family. So don't badmouth him to me, because I don't want to hear it. Yeah, he's done bad things, but not to me. Loyal, remember? I live in an apartment over the lab, which is in the carriage house of this former bed-and-breakfast in Savannah. It's really hot here. I like going to the beach. I also live with Dr. Essex's girlfriend, my friend Rachel. She's really hot and I kind of had a crush on her, but my evil boss would crucify me if I hit on her. I'm only kidding, Dr. Essex! Sadly, Rachel is more interested in red-eyed men than red-headed women, so we're friends and that's good with me.
(I may have had some wine, what? Dr. Essex filled his out drunk.)
5. I had dinner with Magneto. How many people can say that!!
6. I'm an atheist. Science is my religion. Religion doesn't make any logical sense and there is no evidence for a higher power. My parents were Presbyterian. I had to leave Sunday school when I argued about empirical evidence for faith-based creationism. I was seven.
7. I love French Onion Dip. Therefore, I have to exercise a lot because the light kind sucks. I do Spinlates, which is spinning and pilates. I also like movies--some romantic comedies, comedy, and Christmas movies. I love Christmas movies. I'll watch them whenever. I try to make Dr. Essex watch them, sometimes. He makes me watch horror movies. I used to be scared of them, but nothing much really scares me anymore.
8. I read chick lit fiction to destress, in the bathtub. I love water, and I love swimming, but I really miss ice skating. I took lessons for awhile in figure skating. My mom was so happy because it was artistic, but I hated all the jumping and stupid twirling. I liked skating and making nice, neat lines in the ice. Sometimes circles. I liked to look down at the ice when I skated. None of this was really good for ice skating and my brother was the hockey player, so they let him keep skating and I stopped.
9. I love Tori Amos (I would so do her!). I love most chick music, I guess you'd call it. I went to Lillith Fair. Ha, ha, yeah, I know. I went by myself. Some girl started hitting on me, but when she found out I was a geneticist, she thought I was trying to engineer it so people had only straight babies and was at Lillith Fair checking out the enemy (! I don't know, okay, she'd done a lot of shrooms) and so no one really talked to me. I used to tell girls what I did on dates and their eyes glazed over. Raven asks me about work, now, and has no idea how much I love that she does that. Smart girlfriends for the win!
10. Maybe last night, when I was falling asleep, I thought about what my code name would be. If I needed one. (No, Dr. Essex, it's an villainous alias!) I mean, I don't know what I'm going to do after SHIELD is done with me and I should keep my options open, right? Dr. Essex said he had a lot of labs and I could manage one and research whatever I wanted, and that's really awesome. I don't know that I can have a code name. Everything I come up with sounds dumb. Then I remember Dr. Essex's, and I think maybe Prodigy isn't so bad. (Is there a Prodigy? Is there a place you can look these up? Someone needs to cross-index this stuff.)