proper introductions

[Me2]

hi everyone,
most of you have heard about my forays into operant conditioning and several of my opinions on CSP. I thought it might be nice to introduce myself properly. Please feel free to do do the same!
So, I'm 26. I dropped out of highschool in grade 11 but am now in first year university (tranfer program @ a college). I have straight A's so far which is a total shock to me. My goal is to get an honours degree in psychology (arts), and then maybe my masters in psyc.
i live with my boyfriend of six years. He is 9 years older than me and works as an accountant. He's quite conservative and quiet, which is the opposite of me.
i love to dress up and go dancing. I have a huge collection of lip gloss-I love having shiney lips! My favorite musician of all time is Prince. I like him because his music is sexy and funky, and he can play any instrument. He is an accomplished composer.
I learned to swim two years ago and I am now learning to skate.
I am sort of a vegetarian (i don't eat any meat except fish). I have a few close friends that I enjoy having way too much fun with. I like red wine.
I wear braces-which sucks, but it's for the best. I have two sibling and four parents. I like to goof off an tell bad puns.
My house is a total stye, which I hate, but do not do much about. I like to think that I am big and tough but I'm actually a tooth-pick. I don't do any sports, but I always think about it. When I was a little girl I wanted to be a psychologist or a supermodel.
I live in a funky little town in B.C. Canada-which totally rocks!
I don't want to go on forever, I just think that it's important to recognize that there is more to each of us than CSP. Also, getting to know each other a bit might help us relate to each other even more.

I wanna hear what everyone else likes!

[Secret]

Good idea, Me2! My name's Connie, I live in Sacramento CA. I'm 23 years old, and I love to party. I also love reading and writing, going to movies, and dancing. I go to American River College as I'm studying for my GE. Right now I'm working on an essay for the Godess Consiouse magazine"Sage Woman." I'm writing about truth and beauty, how we might find our inner and outer beauty in a culture that seems to consistently take the power out of women. I also love to meditate, create meditations, rituals and the like. I also love to be a part of this community, coming here, I feel like I have an opportunity to help people, an opportunity to connect, to turn our negatives into positives. I have enough love drama in my life to sustain me for a lifetime, or atleast another year! Actually, I just met a really nice guy...30 yrs old, motivated and HOT. I love music, and I've been in bands. My tastes are techno, hip hop, punk rock, indie, emo, and the like. I can't say I have a favorite artist, but Bjork, Radiohead, and Mos def rank high. I have recently reaffirmed my veganism. I do it out of compassion for all likfe, and I feel it helps me to be more compassionate with myself. I'm 5'6, underweight, brunette with too pale skin. (sorry if this sounds like a personal ad). Like Me2 I like red wine too.

[nix]

Wow! It sounds like you and I have a whole lot in common--and I love Sage Woman! It's such a beautiful magazine. I'm a vegetarian too, my boyfriend is a vegan--has been for 12 years, that's an earth sign for you. Someday I would really like to get there too but I need to have time to properly prepare my meals. Either that or be rich enough to hire a full time chef! Nice to meet you!

[touchingpeace]

Great idea! My name is Julie, I am 23yrs old and in my fifth year of college. I'm studying comtemplative psychology after a brief stint as a music major in St. Louis, MO (where I'm from). I live in Boulder, CO now and attend Naropa University. I wonder if anybody's heard of my school, since you all seem to be into the same stuff as everyone around here. I practice Buddhist meditation with a Tibetan influence, the founder of my school came from Tibet. The only thing I love more than music is my partner. He is 13yrs older than me and we share a wonderful little apartment with a view of the flatirons. And I also love red wine!

-Jules

[touchingpeace]

I was noticing the stiking similarities as well. It makes sense that we share our passions and our demons.

I wanted to add that I am minoring in Yoga.

We can learn a lot from each other, I love reading these posts.

-Jules

[watercracker]

I'm 26. I have a fiance who is 9 years older than me. He's the first person I told about this fun disorder we all have. That was 2 years ago and I've been researching and seeking help for this ever since. I wish I would have found this site sooner.
I dropped out of Penn State after 1 year.
I found myself doing graphic work for a Company I worked for ( I never had even worked on a computer before and there I was doing Graphics !)I seemed to be good at it and it turned into me freelancing for a couple of other companies. (I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up).
I wish I ate better and excercised more.
I like going to see music, ever heard of Galactic, Moe, Anders Osbourne?
Anyway...I'm flighty, forgetful and fun, and although I don't have a deep sense of spirituality, I do believe one thing;
Above all else the Universe has a sense of humor.

[marker]

Hello everyone..i've never properly introduced myself..and i figure i should since i'm always coming here for support...well, i'm 19 yrs old and I live in houston tx. I'm a sophomore in college this year..a business major..although thats not really a passion or anything. but its better to have a plan than no plan..and business sounds practical to me.
i enjoy reading, learning to play the guitar, dancing, exercising, wasting time, etc. I live with my family, which includes me, my parents, and my older brother. i don't have a very exciting social life...i just hang around with friends at the house or around college...but never have the money to do anything else. but i'm planning to change that soon. lets see, what else...uhh..i've never had a boyfriend..i'm not really into the dating scene at all..and don't plan to be..partly due to my religion, but mainly to the fact that i lack the outlets to meet guys...because of my dull social life. but i'm pretty content..always looking forward to the future..but i guess not really enjoying the moment. whoah..duno how i got into all this. peace.

[Canuck]

Me2, so glad to hear that you're learning how to skate! I hope that you're loving it. Skating truly is the absolute joy of my life. I get on the ice and I forget about my skin, my homework, my stress...everything.

A little introduction, since I'm already replying.

I'm a 21-year-old senior in college. I'm double-majoring in English and Communication Studies, minoring in Russian Literature. School keeps me very, very busy.

If I'm not at school, I'm probably at the rink. I'm either skating myself (I skate 4 mornings a week) or teaching Learn to Skate lessons. It's also likely that I'm watching a hockey game (my sister and my dad play).

I love going to concerts, screwing around on the internet, emailing with my best friend who lives on the other side of the country, eating (!!), and being slightly neutrotic about everything. I keep an online journal, which I try to update every day. I started the journal to keep track of my picking, but it's morphed into covering my whole (pathetic) life.

[angelkiss]

i love reading about everybody :-) everyone is so different but we share so many things (and bad habits!).

i am almost 21 (in february!) and i am a student. i am majoring in marketing and psychology. i want to go to grad school and get my PhD in clinical psychology so i can be a shrink someday instead of seeing a shrink. :-) i live with my boyfriend, who plans to become a real estate attorney, and our little chihuahua puppy Coco. I work as a marketing assistant at a pro audio manufacturing company (Trapt, No Doubt, and Black Eyed Peas use our microphones!). i love to cook, do photography, and sit around and drink a glass of wine while watching reruns of The Nanny on Lifetime. the cheesy things us girls do....i'm hoping to go to grad school in San Diego b/c i think it's a beautiful place, although I've never been there...if anyone is from that area, tell me how you like it.

[Laura]

I finally feel comfortable using my real name now - so you don't have to call me 'afraid' anymore, my name is Laura.

I live in Melbourne, Australia. I am 18 years old, and I just graduated from Year 12 - but I am going back to repeat the year because my ENTER score wasn't high enough for the university course I wanted to do. I would like to do Primary School Teaching; Psychiatry (so I can help people with the same problem as me); or Veterinary Science. I have also learnt alot about myself from studying Psychology at school. The reason my score wasn't high enough is because I was sick during the exams, and due to the stress of this year my OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) has increased dramatically.
Now its holidays, and school starts on January 29th. Being able to relax during the Summer/Christmas Holidays has begun to help my skin condition, and since I found this website it has also helped.
I am 5'6", and I weigh 55kg (125 lbs). I have naturally tanned skin, which gets darker during Summer, dark brown long hair, and blue eyes. I was born in Australia, but my blood is 50% Dutch (dad's side), and mixed European (mum's side) such as English, Irish, Spanish, Scottish, but also American and Aboriginal. So I guess I'm very multicultural.
Some of my interests include swimming, yoga, internet, movies, and music. I don't play any sports, except for swimming - which I am a member of my local Swimming Club and compete in the city at swim meets. I used to do Hatha Yoga, but it got too expensive to do classes, so now I just do a little bit at home when I have time. Three things I do while online are: update my online journal; play Neopets; and check email while IM-ing. My favourite movies are Ever After, and Charlie's Angels 1 & 2. I like a variety of music, but mostly mainstream stuff on the radio. My favourite bands/singers are: Delta Goodrem, Evanescence, Linkin Park, The Corrs, Shakira, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, Robbie Williams, etc.
I am not a vegetarian, because I love eating meat too much, but I also make sure I eat a healthy amount of vegetables and fruit also. I mosty drink water and/or cordial, but I also drink alcohol (now that I am 18 I can buy my own), but I have to watch how much I drink, because my (Dutch) grandfather was an alcoholic (and a gambler) and died from alcohol poisoning, and with my OCD I get addicted to things easy. Because of this, my parents won't let me take medication without them knowing.
Most of the time my social life is fairly boring - but I also go to alot of parties. The only problem with these parties is that I have to spend an hour on a train, then 30 minutes on a tram to get there!!! But its not so bad, once I'm there I have fun, and always end up sleeping over - although, most of the time I don't sleep because everyone stays up 'til dawn.
Apart from my skin picking, I have also been very self-destructive this year, which I am hoping to stop. My behaviour has been dangerous, and example is getting in cars with people I hardly know, while they are drunk and/or high. I have also been taking alot of drugs myself, mostly binge drinking and marijuana, but it is also something I need to stop doing. The time when this behaviour got to its worst point was a few days after exams - I didn't sleep or even get into a bed for 3 days, I smoked bongs and drank constantly, I got in a car with 4 drunk stoned guys I had only met that night, and my behaviour was really wreckless. Now that I look back, those guys could've had a car accident, they could've raped me, anything might have happened - but at the time I didn't care, maybe I was secretly inviting bad stuff to happen to me because I was so depressed and had almost lost the will to live.
I'm sorry everyone, I have kinda got a bit side-tracked there... anyway, umm, back to things about me.
I am the oldest daughter of three children. I have a 16 year old brother, and a 12 year old sister. My mum is 43 and my dad is 45. I have 2 dogs, a kelpie and a collie, and a zillion other pets including ducks, chickens, birds, fish, tortoises, frogs and lizards. I can speak a minimal amount of Japanese and German, my grandma is trying to teach me to speak Dutch, and one day I'd love to learn Spanish.

I think that's enough.
Formerly afraid,
Laura.