Hi! I posted this in the Getting to Know You thread, but figured I might as well add it here:
Screen Name: KeptInStitches
Age: 25
Significant Other's Age: 28
What You Do: graduate student in engineering - not really sure if it's what I want to do anymore, but I'll work with it for now
What SO Does: network analyst
State of Relationship: dating
How Long You've Been Together: 4.5 years-ish?
How You Met: through university band my first week of college 7.5 years ago - he played the tenor/bari sax and I played the tuba
Wedding Date (if you're engaged/married): N/A
Real Babies: None.
Fur Babies: We each have a cat - he has a orange DSH named Kade and I have a Abyssinian/Siamese/DSH (mutt) named Eleanor. Pics this evening if I remember.
Loves: thermodynamics, statistics, Lego-series video games, The Big Bang Theory, Futurama
Hates: Can I change this to unappreciates? I don't really work up to hate, that's way too much work ... but I don't appreciate modern art. I don't get it.
Pet Peeves: people who chew noisily - chew quietly! Oh and traffic. I road rage very easily.
Hobbies/Activities: knitting, crocheting, playing video games, watching documentaries on Netflix
Favorite Thing About Your SO: how much he wants to help people. He really gets genuine joy out of it.
Least Favorite Thing About Your SO: Sometimes he seems unmotivated.
Describe Your Personality: Highly introverted. Um ... pretty nerdy, and not in ironic senses of the word. Bookish?
Snark Level (1 [low snark] - 10 [high snark]): 11. Snark is off the charts on a daily basis.
I've Been On TK Since: Started lurking when I was a BM in a former friend's wedding, started posting today
How You Came to Be On TK: See above
How I like my potatoes: I've watched way too much Rifftrax lately, so all I hear now is "boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew ..."
Favorite book/author: The entire Harry Potter series, the entire Redwall series by Brian Jacques, Hunger Games, and I'm working on Game of Thrones. I've read a lot, I just can't remember it all at the moment.
Tell Us Something Interesting About Yourself: I have never lived more than 75 miles from where I was born.