"All my fellows, why license is not deposed on the beautiful eyes of a beautiful lady? They fire at men like a bullet. They cut as surely as the sword."

-graffiti spray-painted on the world's oldest known Buddhist stone-carving in Satpara Valley, Baltistan. (copied by me from Three Cups of Tea)

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Hi I'm brakken...

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And before my li'l sis kills me...I am the official onee-chan of awesomenesslyangelic.

(Yeah, she's homicidal. And acts like she's on crack.) Don't even try and deny it imouto-chan!

And we're actually not related. Or live together. Or were adopted or something like that.

She's just my little sister in the relationship way. If that makes any sense...

Oh. And she says I can let you all know...I'm an honorary Asian with 6.5 Asian-ness. (Out of 10).

And yet I'm also white. And hispanic. What!? (Don't try to think about it too much. It might hurt your brain. I know it does mine...)

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zie Basic Info

I'm very much a Socal girl, I love the beach and get cold when it gets below 70

and I tend to use the words dude and like a bit too much...

I'm 3/4 Italian (half of it Argentine-Italian) and 1/4 Slovenian

I have really long curly brown hair and brown eyes...and am short enough that

I couldn't drive most cars without cushions or very adjustable seats...and proud of it!

We midgets shall unite!...crickets hmmm...moving on

I have a steady obsession with Inuyasha, a past obsession with Avatar, and have developed a lively new one: Code Geass. (It's brilliant. Go watch it now.)

I've decided to put in a separate section for reading. Too much to put just here.

If people want to know my age so badly I guess I could put it up; I don't

really care...

UPDATE: Going to ComicCon, San Diego, July 25th. My li'l sis too. It shall be grand.

EDIT: Accidentally saw an ep of Kaze no Stigma while at ComicCon. Fell in love. Went and watched every episode. And now am highly disgusted with the lack of fics on ffnet in this fandom. This. Must. Change.

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"The seeming opposition between life and death is now cut through.

Do not thrash or lunge or flee. There is no longer a container or anything

to be contained. All is resolved in dazzling measureless freedom."

-The Warrior Song of King Gezar

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Edit: It has occurred to me to add some rather interesting but odd facts about myself to this profile.

Translation: It's 3 am, I'm bored, and I can't sleep for the stupid time change. Sue me.

(Or rather, don't. It wouldn't be worth it, I swear, I'm a poor little girl who mooches off of family and friends for pretty much

everything.) But back to the actual point. Oh, and I like lists. I'm weird like that.

Enjoy the insanity known as brakken.

1 I have an inferiority complex and an ego to match. Yes, at the same time. You'd be surprised how well they work

together, it's quite terrifying at times.

2 I'm a perfectionist, OCD, but also a lazy slob. Again, at the same time.

3 I have an amazing sense of balance (balance positions are my favorites in yoga) but walk into doors regularly.

And tables. And sofas. And beds, and chairs...

4 I have perfect hearing, and a decent sense of pitch, but my eyes are so bad distance-wise (I can never remember

the difference between near and far-sighted so we'll just call it that, shall we?) that I can't read a book when it's farther

than a hand's breadth from my face.

5 I use more butter than should be legal, but can only drink non-fat milk. Even 2 percent is too creamy for me, though I can

tolerate 1 percent. Weirder still that I can tell the difference though...

6 The music I like to play and sing is the opposite of the music I normally to listen to.

7 I enjoy doing calculus--and I mean word problems too, like finding the volume of a region formed by equilateral triangles

whose bases lie in the region in the xy plane defined by the intersection between y=1/x and the lines x=2 and x=1

(not that that one's that bad, if you know how to do it) and related rates and so on, but am only passing at

dividing and can't add, subtract, or multiply to save my life. Seriously, you should see how convinced I can be that

3+3=9. Really quite sad.

8 I used to do practically no exercise and still consume many sweets and few veggies--but I have always had freakishly low blood pressure.

Last time it was measured it was 80 over 60, though it's normally 90 over 50. Anyone out there that can beat me?

9 I have low blood sugar and a fast metabolism, so I need to eat all the time or else I'll faint (or at least turn into

the crab incarnate), but I can go hours and hours forgetting to eat. Yes, forgetting. Not fasting; forgetting. And then

of course eating my brains out when I remember to feel hungry and realize a black hole has been steadily replacing

my abdomen.

10 I use my gift for extreme pessimism to be an optimist. Think of it this way: no matter how terrible something is, I can

always think of something worse, and because of that, the original doesn't seem so bad.

11 Talking is one of my very favorite activities in this life of ours; it's also one of the things I do the least and can have

the most difficulty with.

Did I mention that I enjoy irony?

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Authors/Books:

Fo' yo' funnies:

Anne Lamott, Aravind Adiga, Mark Twain, Larry Gonick, The Sammy Keyes series, Joann Bauer.

Fantasy:

Tamora Pierce, Anne McCaffrey, Tolkein, Phillip Pullman, Garth Nix.

Philosophy/History/Psychology:

Dostoevsky, Malcolm Gladwell, Three Cups of Tea, Hamlet, Heart of Darkness, Frankenstein, Voltaire.

And just plain skillage:

Margaret Atwood, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemmingway, Eduardo Galeano (if you know Spanish, por su puesto).

NOTE: These picks are not exclusive, but rather the 'best of'; i.e., Phillip Pullman could go in the Philosophy category too, just as Atwood and Adiga could, and Voltaire could go with the funnies. I was just trying to specify what the largest reason to read this stuff is. What I thought was the most notable quality. Very subjective, as it even depends on my mood. But, for whatever reason, all are worth reading!

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Favorite Poets:

Langston Hughes, T. S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold, William Butler Yeats, William Blake, Sylvia Plath, Rumi, Omar Khayyam.

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Quotations:

"'In silence, alone with his conscience, he asks himself perhaps, 'What is honor, and isn't the condemnation of bloodshed a prejudice?''"-the prosecutor Ippolit Kirillovitch in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov

"Writing is my passion...my escape...my avenue to friends and colleagues and cherished skills alike." -guess who

"In art you can express the deepest and darkest parts of yourself without the negative backlash you would receive expressing it in any other way." -guess again

"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."-Mother Theresa

"Isn't it pretty to think so?"-Hemmingway, The Sun Also Rises

"Under certain circumstances profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."-Mark Twain

"But doesn't it hurt more to live with no hope?"-CJ - Lady of Gryffindor

"Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak, and act, as the most common man."-Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as the rightly timed pause."-Mark Twain

" 'Think they'll come?' 'Well, my gut says no, but then again, my gut's made of an advanced multi-polymer, so it doesn't know what the hell it's talking about. Stupid gut.'-Simmons"-RvB

"The horror! The horror!"-Conrad, Heart of Darkness

"In the room the women come and go/ talking of Michelangelo." -T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

"As I lay there nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,/ As of someone gently rapping, rapping on my chamber door."-Edgar Allen Poe, "The Raven"

"Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart.

Never give up, never lose hope.

Allah says, "The broken ones are my beloved."

Crush your heart. Be broken."

-Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir, aka Nobody, Son of Nobody

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"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.

You feel it, don't you?"

-Rumi