Vital Stats! I'm 17, I live in California, and I would prefer not to be your average high school student. I'm 5'5", have green eyes, and my hair is currently pink, black and white (it's cut a lot differently than what's in the pictures). I hope to study fashion design in San Francisco next year, after I graduate. I have one twin sister, one step brother, the best friends in the whole wide world, and am mostly/partly fluent in Japanese. My hobbies are translating, fashion design, web art design and eating. My likes: cold green or oolong tea, raspberries, vintage shopping, mochi, jrock. My dislikes: being labeled, being boring, people who label themselves, MarySues, people who force their beliefs on others, internet blogs, Fushigi Yugi writers who add "no da" onto their every sentance, pretentious fanfikkers, american pop music. Favorite bands/singers/songs: hide, Dir en Grey, Due le Quartz, Guniw Tools, "Romeo" by Basement Jaxx, "Pure Imagination" from Willie Wonka, Baiser, Noir Fleurir, gackt, New Order, "Tunak Tunak" by Daler Mendhi, Placebo, the Beatles, Tori Amos, Ben Folds Five, "Yellow" by Coldplay, "Everlong" by the Foo Fighters, Tom Smith

I've been "writing" since the sixth grade; serious writing began much later. My sister and I were into Marvel Comics for a long time, and that kind of jumpstarted our interest in anime, starting with the Ronin Warriors and moving out from there. I've been writing fan fiction for longer than I'll admit to, and am quite happy that many of my early works are now sitting in a dead computer in my garage, hopefully trapped forever. Though I love my anime fan fiction, I have to plug my original works here ... Miyuki's story was began over three years ago, and has changed vastly from what it started as. It was only recently, as I've began, finally, to mature and leave a lot of teenage angst behind, that I realized just how much Miyuki's story was therepy for me. He was born in a time that was really difficult for me, in more ways than one, and he's been beside me the entire way, offering little commentaries in that funny little voice he has, changing his life to mirror mine. A lot of my life and my friends' lives appear in his story, and when I read it I can remember a lot of things, and not forgetting them has helped me grow. I don't know what I'd do without my writing, Miyuki or otherwise; I hope that reading these stories mean something to some of you, that they affect you and change the way that you look at a particular series.

Anyway, I'll stop babbling. Included in this page is a scrapbook of me and some of my friends, I hope you enjoy looking at some of the pictures; they're really funny. Descriptions of the picture will appear directly under this text when the arrow is over the link.