About Me

Last Updated 4-10-07

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Greetings Gaians! I'm Kurikins. You can just call me Kuri, though. I'm 18 years old, and I live and was born in the USA. Like my avatar, I'm a girl. (Unlike my avatar, I do not have vibrant red hair) I like lots of different things and love meeting new people, so if you've got decent grammar and a few spare brain cells, feel free to send me a PM. smile Don't be alarmed if I happen to maul you affectionately, this is my standard way of greeting strangers. XD Or friends. Or people who taste delicious and salty.

My first interest is writing. Unlike most people who list "writing" as an interest, I'm actually doing my best to make it my career. I don't just write fanfiction or whatever random stuff comes into my head at the moment. Not that there's anything wrong with that, (in fact I participate in NaNoWriMo regularly) I just don't like it when people call themselves writers when really all they're doing is putting down a lot of pointless crap on paper and expecting people to like it automatically. Posers and hypocrites are kind of a pet peeve of mine.

I also really love video games, though unfortunately I don't usually have the money to buy any. Thankfully there's a library nearby, so I can at least support my book habit. I usually enjoy fantasy, but I've been known to wander into mystery, sci-fi, and Elizabethan history. I don't read non-fiction much.

My fourth and most prevalent interest is podcasting. I don't have a show of my own, but I live and breathe podcasts. I subscribe to over twenty podcasts right now, and will probably have about five more by the time I'm finished writing this list. If you like podcasts too, please feel free to send me a PM! It's sad how few people know about podcasts on Gaia.

And finally, I love my cooking. When my family first moved to Tennessee, I tuned into Food Network on the hotel television to stave off death via boredom, and I've been hooked on cooking ever since. I cook something every day and I love it, and I can't wait until I have a kitchen of my own with which to experiment. I hold Food Network star Alton Brown entirely responsible for my actually being able to cook and understand food properly. smile

Television Obsessions: Good Eats, Doctor Who
Currently Reading:
"Courage of Falcons - Holly Lisle
"Connections" - James Burke
"Legends of the World"
"Who's (Oops) Whose Grammar Book Is This, Anyway?"
"The Virtue of Selfishness" - Ayn Rand
"I'm Just Here For the Food" - Alton Brown
Currently Podiobooking:
"Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana", by Tee Morris
"Spherical Tomi" by Jack Mangan,
"Voices: New Media Fiction", edited by Mur Lafferty
"hackoff.com" by Tom Evslin
"Children of the Gods"
"The Immortals" by Tracy & Laura Hickman
Currently Playing: Neverwinter Nights
Current Web Obsession: Redstring
Current Quest: None
Works in Progress: Two novels, in their editing/revision phase
Quest Donaters and Other Cool People of Note:
- Cognizance, for being nifty and gifting me my Nitemare Collar
- EatingBrains, for also being nifty and giving me my Elven Ears
- Helzebel, who donated 200g to my last quest. Cheap b***h. wink heart
- Feminine_Kleitos, who donated 1,000g to my quest
- The Tree in Towns, who donated an item to my quest
- The Trash Fairy, who surprised me with an excellent hat! biggrin
- Milo the Mouse, who donated 1,000g to my quest
- Vampire Naruto, who donated 200g to my quest
- Akela Haimi, who donated 2,000g to my quest! heart