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| User: | mrkotter (13231624) vienna waits for you
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| Name: | They like to say Rebecca instead of Rachel. | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1984-03-29 | |||||
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| Bio: | I'm Rachel. Most people assume my name is Rebecca, because it begins with an R and has a vaguely Semitic flavor, just like Rachel does. It kind of sucks to go through your day hearing people call you a name that isn't even yours. Oh well. I guess it beats the time that a coworker told people my name was Julie, when in actuality, he had just overheard me say, "I'm Jewish." Yeah. I work at a newspaper. Don't get your hopes up, you're not about to stumble across Woodward and Bernstein's livejournal. I'm just your lowly obituary writer. Whenever your Catholic grandma dies, I'm the one who waxes poetic about her in the newspaper. People assume it must be morbid to write about old dead people all day. Well, you get used to it. I sometimes wish that I worked at a pet supply store or something, because I'm sick of talking about my job, sick of people assuming that my job is weird and cool and fun, when in reality, all I do is sit on my fat ass and write things like "Mrs. Trovati will be missed by all, and she was a really good cook. And she loved tag sales." I am not exaggerating. At least if I worked at a pet supply store, people would quietly assume that my job sucked and was boring, and stop asking me about it. I like music that nobody else likes, and that includes an unhealthy obsession with Dion and the Belmonts. On a good day, I've been told I resemble Mama Cass, and on a really good day (ala, a Thin Day), even been compared to Janis Joplin. Except not a junkie. Nope, I'm straight edge, aside from a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, a small marijuana addiction, and the fact that my nickname was "Wino" in college. Hey, they meant it with the utmost of fondness. And acid. Once. But that doesn't even count, because I got such a weak piece. So yeah, I'm pretty virginal. I have funny dating stories. Due to a persistant social ineptitude, I have no idea how to relate to other people--but I also hate being alone. So I keep seeking out others, using the devil's tools like JDate and Match.com. Leave me be, you insipid Dr. Phil commercials. You promised I'd meet my soulmate, sure, but you DIDN'T tell me that I'd also meet a 5'2 inch computer tech with a Napoleon Complex, a five hundred pound Italian guy in "the art dealership business", a guy with more wool on his chest than a pasture of sheep, and a guy who took off his pants and grinned proudly at me after meeting me for FIVE MINUTES. Gee. Thanks. Such gems. My mother is obsessed with Richard Simmons and the gym. We went on vacation, and she put her exercise ball in the backseat, which meant that everyone's luggage had to be strapped to the roof of the car. It rained. Everyone had to wear mildewy clothes on our fun Jersey Shore family vacation, but Mom's exercise ball was just fine. My sister says I gave her a complex when I was a kid because I'd suggest an innocent game like War, and then pelt her with plastic food from the Fisher-Price kitchen, shrieking, "WAR! WAR! WAR!" My sister promises that she might consider forgiving me one day. My father is a blues guitarist and an executive, but most importantly, he's a manic depressive. This means that when you go anywhere with my father, he'll shuffle along and sadly point at babies and say, "Eh. That's the only time of your life when you're REALLY happy." Thanks, Daddy. Buckets of fun YOU are. Anyway. So's it goes. I'm Rebecca--I mean Rachel. I live in New York, and I write death notices. My journal is completely friends-only, because I'm weird and neurotic. So if you want to read my insane rants (I'm sure you do), friend or comment me, and assure me that you are not someone on my Bad List, and I will friend you. Maybe. | |||||
| Memories:: | 11 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | over 100 public | |||||
| Interests: | 22: american beauty, avon bottles, bellbottoms, billy joel, board games, boggle, bruce springsteen, disco, doo wop, ghost world, jon stewart, judaism, lesley gore, little anthony, monopoly, polyesther, scrabble, sitcoms, the bee gees, the jackson 5, the sims, writing | |||||
| Schools: | None listed | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 31: _ashe__, agent_mph, artichokes, artist78, deadgecko, gadarene, hidinginlyrics, industrix, kaleido_sphere, lady_agrona, manga_maniac, manywings, mary_shelley77, mental_ashtray, metalclarinet, musicgeekstress, olmek, rachelrites, release07, rotissimo, sallycalgb2, screechingbugs, so_deleterious, spicefinch, stained_aria, stoleallhearts, tcv2, the_bluest_bird, tiggeriphic, whenitsraining, wwing | |||||
| Member of: | 5: afriend4u, deadtreepride, depression, itsreallyover, socialanxiety | |||||
| Account type: | Plus Account | |||||
