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This user is 23 years, 10 months and 7 days old. |
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This user is proud to have been a Wikipedian since Jan 22, 2008.
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Weeee!!! Yep, I'm usually at work when I'm editing... so if I edited something you look at, its generally a boredom edit. And with boredom edits come simple mistakes. ;)
Feel free to take a peek at the pictures I've taken and uploaded for article use.
[edit] Pages I Watch like a Hawk
[edit] A Little About Me
My name is Annie, and as stated above, I usually edit from work (What else is one supposed to do?). I enjoy helping out with patrolling the new pages section as well as finding articles that need to be fixed due to vandalism or typos, or articles that don't belong here. I try not to poke my nose into article subjects that I have no clue about, and tend to stick to things I know about first hand. I don't like to edit things 3, 4, 5 times in a row. If I need to do something, I like to take my time, and hit preview a lot. Sometimes I will spend +15 minutes on one subsection fixing grammar, readability, and flow. Becaue of this, yes... my edit count is artificially low. But ya know? I dont mind so much. ;) The picture above was taken at the University of Virginia in 2006, after my parotidectomy for a tumor in my parotid gland. Its cool... its gone, and it was A-OK... but they had to remove it due to the potential for bad stuff later. I enjoy photography, and recently spent a lot of time over in Washington DC to check out the Cherry Blossom Festival. I graduated in 2006 with a BA in Environmental Science. My minor was Astronomy, and my concentration in my major was Meteorology. However, I don't use any of that in my daily job. Go figure. Feel free to check out my blog if you would like to see me bloviating about today's issues or just general things. One more thing... I will never, ever run for anything on here. I don't want to; I wouldn't be able to deal with the day to day wikidrama. I also would never want to a) put myself up for public scrutiny (I will only ever answer to myself) or b) clean up other people's messes on a massive "second job" type level. I do this for fun and to help out others.
[edit] About the Nickname
Some people have raised an eyebrow or two regarding the name "Queerbubbles". It dates back to a time when waking up at 5am and being at work at 6am seemed like a horrible nightmare rather than an impending reality; highschool. My then best friend and I were wasting yet another hour on the phone together. He was doing his homework, an assignment which now seems ridiculous, in which he was to write a story where the first letter of each new sentence was the next letter in the alphabet. His sentence? "Queer bubbles began floating around me." "Queer bubbles??" I excalimed? I was enamoured with this phrase, and began calling my friend my "Queerbubbles" as he is gay. I dont know when the name flipped, and he began calling me Queerbubbles... but in the end, it continued through high school, into college and now here. I dont mean any harm by the name, and am sorry if you find it offensive, or do not agree with people who are just living their lives like everyone else in the world. No one deserves to be made to feel like less of a person, but that's just my two cents.
[edit] Currently...
[edit] Things I Care About
- The Environment
- Places I've lived
- Astronomy
- Pop Culture
- Alternative Music (or Angry White Person Music)
- Politics
- US Government articles
- The University of Virginia
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[edit] Things I Don't Care About or Like
- Your edit count (how long you've been around is much more impressive)
- Rap Music
- Your ego
- The 20 times in a row that you edit an article... is it really so hard to just hit preview and keep on truckin?
- Close minded persons
- Republicans (generally)
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