My name's Katherine, but if you call me that, there's a good chance I might kill you. Stick with Katie or Kate...it's just better for your sake and mine. Mostly, my life revolves around music. It's in my blood, and I was raised on some good stuff that has since blossomed into a library of thousands of artists who have, believe it or not, saved my life. There are times when I have been so depressed that I've been on the verge of letting go of everything (including life), but these words and sounds just pulled me back from the edge. Cliché? Yes. True? Yes. I'm sixteen. Sometimes I can be a bit of an immature fangirly type person, but I tend to act more mature than my age would suggest I am. I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that I'm educated and speak and type in proper English. If you tyP3 lyk3 th1s~~~, there's a good chance I won't want to talk to you. I mean, God forbid you use a comma or real letters, right? 'Scuse me for being a tad bitchy...but I'm just a slight grammar Nazi. I'm a history geek. I know, I know. You see the girl with two lip rings who sports shirts with Deathbats on them to rep her favorite band (Avenged Sevenfold in case you were wondering) and you wouldn't think so. But anything to do with history, I'm all over it. I was born in Brooklyn, New York. My parents made the dumbest decision ever in moving us to Maine. The second I graduate high school and am old enough? I'm outta here. Goodbye, little towns. Cities are part of my soul. Sometimes I'm kind of a peace-lovin', tree-huggin' hippie, and wanna protest all the bad things in the world. But the reality is...I just don't have time and the difference it makes would be slim to none. Someday, I'd like to save the world though. That's always in the back of my mind, and it's a motivator. I'm a writer. Simply put...I am a writer, it's what I do, and sometimes, I manage to do it well. Sometimes I get mad. Sometimes I'm so happy that my cheeks hurt from smiling. Sometimes I spend the day in bed watching chick flicks. Sometimes I cry all day. Sometimes I dance in front of the window because I'm free-spirited and I laugh when the neighbors look up and go, "What the hell is she doing?" Sometimes I sing loudly out the window or in the car, and I don't care what other people think of my voice. I sing because the words mean something. Sometimes I read books for hours and don't leave my room to eat. Sometimes I just do things, but hey, don't we all? I tend to swear. A lot. I'm trying to stop, but sometimes I really can't help it. It's usually only when I'm trying to make a point, am really pissed off, or am writing from the perspective of a person who I know swears a lot. Otherwise, I try to keep it to a minimum. But sometimes it just comes out. I identify as straightedge. Everyone tells me "You're underage, you're just following the law!" Wrong. Being straightedge, in basic terms, means no drinking, no drugs, no smoking, and no promiscuity. And uh, aren't drugs illegal for everyone? That's what I thought. Either way...just because I'm not of legal age yet, that doesn't mean I'm just 'following the law'. I identify as straightedge, not because it's a trend or for any other reason. It's because it's what I feel is right for me. It's a lifelong commitment, and I plan to follow it. That doesn't mean if you do drugs or drink or smoke that I hate you or even look down upon you - it's your life. But I just don't do it and that's my decision, so respect for that decision would be pretty sweet. So yeah...that's me...not really in a nut-shell. But that's the basics. So...say hello if you feel like it. This is just straight-up life. FACTS: "I write because I have to write. I write because I am in love with the world. I write because my tongue is too wet and sloppy a tool for the elegance of language and because I feel more comfortable speaking through two splayed hands, through the pianoing dance of my fingertips. I write because the world is created through language and story and because I have a role to play in weaving the future. I write because I believe in the human beings around me with a passion so intense and so vivid and so bright that I can't help but want to reach them, and I want to reach not just them, but every future generation, and to tell them to keep trying and dreaming and striving, because it is worth it, and because the only way we can know each other is through these stories. I write to discover myself. I write because there is no other way. I write because I would go crazy otherwise. I write because I am crazy. I write because I need to make sense of the hideous intricacy of the universe. I write because I am happy. I write because I am in pain. I write because of the sheer joy of it. I write because sometimes it is the only thing that keeps me here. I write because, right now, I am breathing, and I can feel the beating of my heart within the rise and fall of my ribcage and I write because moths drink the tears of sleeping birds." -Orhan Pamuk SANTI. |