Introducing Myself

interngal08 · December 2013

Heya, just introducing myself. I posted this months ago but I'm starting to not lurk as much and just wanted to say "Hi" in a less-lurky way

I like this board a ton and the posts can be pretty entertaining, interesting, and insightful. They helped me snap out of this little pre-planning phase I got into a few months ago, too, so I find them helpful at times. Anyways, look forward to posting more with you all.

Screen Name: interngal08
Age: 23
Significant Other's Age: 27
What You Do: Outpatient psychotherapist, specifically a clinical social worker in a private group practice.
What SO Does: Computer Engineer
State of Relationship: Serious. House hunting together and we've discussed marriage and children. We are building a house together, the foundation was finished earlier this week. We have discussed marriage and children in depth and I anticipate we'll be engaged within a few months of our house being completed.
How Long You've Been Together: 2 years
How You Met: online dating site
Wedding Date (if you're engaged/married): n/a
Real Babies: 0
Fur Babies: 0
Loves: Cooking, baking, PS3 (Bioshock Infinity and CoD Black Ops 2 are my current favorites), running, Pinterest, scrapbooking travel/vacations
Hates: People not covering their mouth/nose when coughing or sneezing, bugs and insects, not getting enough sleep, bad red wine
Pet Peeves: Leaving garbage in the kitchen sink, like napkins or food
Hobbies/Activities: Video games, electric guitar, reading (mostly stuff on time limited psychotherapies and true crime), logic puzzles
Favorite Thing About Your SO: Being with him makes my stress just melt away. And the way he looks at me makes me feel like I'm the only one who matters. Also, we went to the same undergrad and get to cheer for our team together.
Least Favorite Thing About Your SO: When he gets super quiet and does't feel like talking. I'm a therapist so I freaking love to talk or listen!
Describe Your Personality: Calm. I'm a pretty zen person, which helps at my job, but sometimes I come off as being uncaring in my personal life since I don't mirror affect very well. Also, I can be super uber enthusiastic once I get into something.
Snark Level (1 [low snark] - 10 [high snark]): 5
I've Been On TK Since: Last year
How You Came to Be On TK: Browsing pics of venues for fun
How I like my potatoes: Mashed with garlic
Favorite book/author: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
Tell Us Something Interesting About Yourself: I've read every novel Anne Rice has ever written. I graduated from my master's degree program exactly 365 days after graduating from my bachelor's program, however not at the same school. My screenname is interngal08 because I did over eight internships while I was in grad school and undergrad.

loves2shop4shoes · December 2013

Welcome to the nut house, @interngal08. You come across a bit older than 23...in a good way.

Tell me...

How do you like being a therapist? What's the most interesting patient you've ever worked with, and why were they so interesting?

Do you have a favorite boob?

What types of posts around here do you find most interesting?

Bill Clinton. Albert Einstein. Your BF. You've gotta fuck one, marry one, kill one. Who do you pick for each, and why?

interngal08 · December 2013

How do you like being a therapist? What's the most interesting patient you've ever worked with, and why were they so interesting?
Being a psychotherapist is pretty awesome. I love working with patients and helping them to return to a higher level of functioning and gain symptom relief.
The worst part of my job is the documentation. We are audited by Medicaid, Medicare, and various insurance companies at least once a year so the documentation has to be 100% within compliance.
Also, I can't really discuss individual patients I've worked with due to HIPAA.

Do you have a favorite boob?
The left one.

What types of posts around here do you find most interesting?
The ring obsessed special-snowflake-syndrome posts. There's something about them that is cringe worthy but yet they make me want to keep reading. It gets really good when they (the OP) comes back and tries to defend just how special, mature, and toughened they are by their life experiences.

Oh, and the extreme pre-planners. The OP's you highly suspect are dating someone far too immature, reluctant, or early in the relationship to be planning the way they are. Makes me think of:

Bill Clinton. Albert Einstein. Your BF. You've gotta fuck one, marry one, kill one. Who do you pick for each, and why?
I would seduce a young Albert Einstein (f**k), persuade him to create a time machine or way to utilize wormholes so I can travel into the future and prevent Bill Clinton from becoming president (kill), and then skip further ahead in time and marry my BF.

Aside from the time-traveling stuffs I would f**k Einstein because I like German accents. They always make me smile, probably because I associate them with awesome words like "lederhosen" and "streudel". I would hypothetically kill Clinton because I don't want to f**k him or marry him and I want to prevent him from passing the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. And I would marry my BF because he's the one I want to f**k the rest of my life and when he talks with me I smile for a reason other than his cool accent.

TLDR: F**k Einstein, Kill Bill, Marry BF