[THE FACTS ABOUT MISS SEA TURTLE]

CAST OF CHARACTERS:

miss diana -- lives in the sky with her unreachable dreams

sabrina -- long distance best friend and THE AWESOME

geerah -- good friend for over 9 years

numidas -- DJ ballstrap and craftster extraodinaire and comrade

david -- boyfriend and writer and fantastic mix cd-ster

barrios -- the apple of my eye and creator of the burrito burro

skyler -- ex-boyfriend/current friend

edward -- writer and quirky cohort

MORE FACTS ABOUT DIANA:

she's a quarter japanese.

her birthday is 9 september 1981; making her 22 years old

she is a writing, literature and publishing major, and will be a senior this year.

i've always wanted to be on that strange girl dot com and i'm slighty obsessed with porn.

i have a thing for [brackets] and exclamation points!

i have a big love for burritos.

My boyfriend and i have a lot of ideas of how to take over the world. one of them is starting a writing group that meets each week, and another is opening up the best record store the states has ever seen. you know, start small and then go bigger!

NUMIDAS ASKS:
1. is there a particular instrument that turns you on?
2. what's your favorite color?
3. can we adopt an emu together?

the guitar is overrated but i'm attracted to it.

blue and green. can i have two?

we will have a farm in the midwest. we shall raise burrito burros and emus and live happily ever after. also, we will host a barnyard electroclash party every thursday in which Blondie will play sometimes.

Q:i often get asked,"diana, what do you write?"

A:well, this is a pretty hard question for me to answer, but mostly short stories and haikus. i tried my hand at writing longer pieces and i'm starting to embrace longer length stories. i'm intersted in young adult fiction and a lot of my stories deal with adolescence or the young adult experience. i'm also quite silly, but i believe that my stories can be enjoyed by a lot of different ages. i've also tried my hand at erotica. i like being naughty.

TRUTHS:

my first kiss happened at 16 with a stranger at a party

i lost my virginity at the age of 21 on the second date

sometimes i become really insecure

i cry very easily

i sometimes masturbate many times a day

i wish i was more crafty

i have a really difficult relationship with my father

i rely on my mother far too much

all the roommates i've had in college i've had traumatic events with, except everyone tells me i'm such a lovely person and blames it on the difficulty of living with someone.

i want to work in a flower shop

i've worked in a library from the age of 18

i didn't wear a bra in high school

i speak to squirrels and ducks in the boston common on my way to/from class

i actually like washing the dishes.

GUILTY PLEASURES & WEAKNESSES:
darren hayes. studded belts. shopping for new panties. blue eye shadow. long(ish) hair on boys. glasses. blue eyes. libraries. used book stores. record stores. comic book stores. decoupage. writing letters. tomato sandwiches. almond milk. arizona iced teas. ducks aka mallards. Arthur: the television series. rainy days. naps. kissing necks. park benches. vinyl records. DIY punks. newbury street. butterscotch pudding. friendship bracelets. walking around cemetaries. vespas. all-night diners. small towns in nowheresville. black cats. mod. dancing at shows, in my room and down the street. roald dahl. nick hornby. chicago, illinois. andy warhol. dante gabriel rossetti. knee high socks. saddle shoes. scott baio. breaking the yolks in sunny side up eggs. tea cups. anything minature. dollhouses. origami. melody maker magazine (r.i.p.). japanese language.

I USED TO LOVE THESE THINGS MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF:the monkees, new kids on the block's joe mcintyre, matthew lawrence,smashing pumpkins, savage garden, reel big fish, ska music, punk scene, getting a boyfriend

OBSESSIONS:
making the perfect mix tapes/cds, indian food, red nail polish, walks at night, miso soup, buttons, small boxes, picking things up off the sidewalk, photobooths, vegetarianism, polaroid cameras, craftiness, the container store, ikea, crayola crayons, decoupage, sand castles, bikinis, knee high socks, corduroy, japanese rice candy, san-x, making collages, cats, small dogs, zines, zen, haikus, starting my own zine distro, johnny depp, ellen degeneres, francesca lia block, nick hornby's high fidelity, stripes, record stores, scarves, the smells of barbeque, the crunch of snow under my boots, converse chuck taylors, rum ice cream, being scarfy, thunderstorms, thrift stores, belt buckles, typewriters, short stories, flash fiction, stripes, opening letters, letter openers, safety pins, shoegazing, stargazing, constellations, cannibals, the perks of being a wallflower, libraries, colourful ribbons, tea, japanese, kittens, kitties, vespas, tattoos, washing machines, laundrymats, copper press, cometbus, pirates, rain, robots, san francisco, skyscraper magazine, punk planet, naps, insomnia, indie rock, high fidelity, lost causes, kangaroos, john cusack, johnny depp, jack kerouac, flip flops, bruises, eeyore, crayola crayons, comics, coloring books, paper dolls, black ink, amelie, postcards, writing letters, stamps, animal rights, pins, button makers, polka dots, cloudy days, ducks, young adult fiction, writing, reading, zoos, the #19, porn

MUSIC IS MY BOYFRIEND:
ryan adams, smashing pumpkins, ted leo/rx, built to spill, modest mouse; volcano, i'm still excited!!; xiu xiu, death cab for cutie, the postal service, harvey danger, the shins, sleater-kinney, adam ant, remy zero, bright eyes, joanna newsom, franz ferdinand, the mercury program, they might be giants, our lady peace, less than jake, reel big fish, the animators, the ramones, the kinks, the smiths, the strokes, the white stripes, rangeboy, interpol, fountains of wayne, bjork

HATE:
strangers winking at me, television, chocolate, when people squish "bugs", boys honking at me as they drive by, headaches, early mornings, insomnia, losing her things, moving, saying goodbyes, hardcore, pretentious hipsters

coming soon, my zine: don't call me diane!

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