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Let’s see. I’m seventeen and a senior in high school, an English Honors student, a Tolkienite, a Trekkie, the youngest of three and the only girl, and I’m absolutely terrible at math. I moved from Jersey to Pennsylvania, and I scare some of the people here with my accent, my colorful language and my short-temper. For example, when I’m angry I say I just may ‘eat something’, and that confuses people. Hee. My writing is usually humor. I’m told I have terrific comedic timing, so that’s a good thing. I've been writing on FF.net for... four years now. Wow. That's quite a while.

I love writing angst, because seriously, who doesn’t? Angst is fun. Actually, the majority of my writing involves pain of some kind. Hence my screenname, “Butterfly Bandage." I’m horribly optimistic in real life, but I love reading sad, angst-ridden fanfictions all day long. It’s depressing.

My idea of a good Saturday night is sitting on a worn-out couch with my best friends eating leftover Chinese and watching Lord of the Rings. I do have a social life, I’m relatively well-liked at my school, but yes, I am one of the thespian nerds. And I’m quite proud of it. I’m also one of those people that lug around a dog-eared copy of a 50th Anniversary One-Volume Edition of LOTR wherever I go, just in case.

CSI is my favorite show. Mm-hmm. Loved it ever since my eldest brother showed it to me years ago. 8 That show made me watch Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, damnit.

TV Shows: CSI, House M.D., CSI: NY, MASH, Star Trek, NCIS, Heroes, Law and Order, 24, Medium, Angel, Leverage, Eleventh Hour, Fringe, X-Files, Robin Hood (BBC), The Mentalist
Movies: Jurassic Park, Zack and Miri, Cloverfield, Repo! the Genetic Opera, Pirates of the Caribbean, Horton Hears a Who!, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The Scorpion King, Dante's Peak, Harold and Kumar, National Treasure, Without a Paddle, Titanic, The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, RENT, The Namesake, The Brothers Grimm, The 40-Year-Old-Virgin
Books: The Outsiders, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Holes, Inkheart, Eragon, CSI novels, To Kill a Mockingbird, Night
Music: Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Panic! At The Disco, New Found Glory, Empires, The All-American Rejects, Story of the Year, Queen, Nickelback, Bon Jovi, The Who, Kansas, Jimmy Eat World, Repo! Soundtrack

Pairings: Kutner/Thirteen, House/Cuddy, Chase/Cameron, Grissom/Sara, Warrick/Catherine, Adam/Stella, McGee/Abby, Tony/Ziva, Will/Djaq, Kirk/Spock
Friendships: Nick and Archie, the new Ducklings (Taub, Kutner and Thirteen), House and Wilson, Hiro and Ando, Spock and Kirk
Characters: Archie, Kutner, Adam R., Chekov, Bobby, Henry, Hodges, Sid, Scotty, Sulu, McCoy, Spock, Radar, Hawkeye, Klinger, McGee, Abby, Ziva, Gibbs, Ducky, Palmer, Adam M., Ando, Hiro, Sylar, Jack, Milo, Lindsey (Angel, not CSI:NY), Hood, Jane, Taub and any character Seth Rogen's ever played. Yay.

Quotes from my friends:

Butterfly Bandage: I wrote... five paragraphs for Archie's history and... five for personality and quirks.
Kerii-tan: Only you could pull off writing that much on a roleplay application for a secondary character, Gina.
Butterfly Bandage: OTZ

Kerii-tan: SPAZTICALLY SPAZZING
Butterfly Bandage: SPAZTICAL SPAZZ SPAZTICALLY SPAZZING
Butterfly Bandage: ow.
Butterfly Bandage: That hurt my head.
Kerii-tan: SPAZZING SPAZTICALLY SPAZZES SPAZTICALLY SPAZZ
Butterfly Bandage: OW.
Kerii-tan: WORDS LOOK WEIRD NOW.

Kerii-tan: The day after that was definitely the day that proved that I have absolutely shitty timing
Butterfly Bandage: ll;kk
Butterfly Bandage: shit
Butterfly Bandage: sorry.
Butterfly Bandage: I was tapping out the beat to an FOB song.
Kerii-tan: XDDDD
Butterfly Bandage: continue.

Voss: I found shit in my binder that's so old I'm keeping it purely for sentimental reasons.

-Lilia and I are trying to figure out who is who in the Star Trek trailer-
Me: Okay, so that’s definitely Scotty.
Lilia: Yaaay, there’s Spock!
Me: And Sulu! And I think that’s Chekov…
Lilia: There’s Kirk… and Uhura.
Trailer: “Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence!”
Me & Lilia: -deadpan- McCoy.

Ian: Why is everyone sick? I’m not sick. And then we have Miss Shivers here.
Me: -shivering pitifully- YOU LEFT ME OUTSIDE.
Ian: C’mon, time to shovel!
Me: I’M NOT HELPING YOU.

Aowizkid: DON'T SPEW ME D:
Butterfly Bandage: SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ELFISH WELFARE?
Aowizkid: YES, I AM A MEMBER. WHAT OF IT
Butterfly Bandage: THEY LIKE BEING ENSLAVED, STFU
Aowizkid: NO, THEY LIKE BEING ENSLAVED BY HOT CHICKS
Aowizkid: NOT EVIL PEOPLE
Butterfly Bandage: SO THAT'S WHY DOBBY WANTED TO BE FREE. LUCIUS WAS NO HOT SEXY MAMA.
Aowizkid: EGGS-ACTLY.

Mom: -in a panicked frenzy to clean before company shows up- AUGH! JESUS CHRIST! THIS BATHROOM LOOKS LIKE KING KONG TOOK A SHIT IN HERE!

-dead silence, in the dark, Kelsey thinks I'm sleeping-
Me:-gasp, bang- IF MIGUEL CASTRO WAS IN E.R. THEN THAT MEANS HE MIGHT BE BLOODY!!
Kelsey: ...My heart… just shot down to my ass and back up again…
Me: I just had an epiphany!
Kelsey: I just shit out my heart.

Anthony: The laws of physics don’t seem to apply in this movie. I mean, he’s trying to pull a trailer ten times his size off of a cliff with a Jeep three times smaller than the trailer, with inch-wide cord.
Me: Yeah, Ant, on an island full of genetically cloned dinosaurs.
Anthony: …point taken.

Anthony: Only you can prevent forest fires!
Kelsey: BITE ME.

Me: -narrator during an acting improv- And the witch cackled maniacally.
Caroline: Mua ha ha.
Me: …cackled maniacally.
Caroline: I can’t get much more maniacal than that.

Julie: But I don’t want to act as a supermodel again! I’m always a supermodel!
Mr. Monahan: Now she needs something else added.
Me: How about Multiple Personality Disorder?
Julie: SO NOW I’M A BIPOLAR SUPERMODEL?!
Me: No, bipolar is different.
Julie:I’M STILL A SUPERMODEL!

Random student: GOD, DUDE! That lunch smells like burnt dick!
Me: -completely deadpan- I’d love to know exactly how he knows what that smells like.
Alissa: -snorts- There’s definitely a story behind that one.

Ian: What if Fall Out Boy had dynamite with a laser beam?
Me: What, like a laser light show?
Ian: No, like they throw dynamite and lasers shoot out and it goes SHAABLAM.

Ian: So if you were in a burning building with Andy Hurley and your cat, which would you save?
Me: Uh, uh, uh... Andy?
Ian: You selfish bitch.
Me: Okay, fine! I'd pick up Elliott and say, "Andy! This way, run!"
Ian: Someone broke his ankles.
Me: -shrieks in horror at the very idea- WHO WOULD BREAK ANDY'S ANKLES?!

Me: -pacing- Damnit, I’m hungry. I swear to God, if I don’t get some food right now I may eat something. –stops pacing- …wait.

Me: I love how Mr. Monahan just assumes we’re going to get applause.
Caroline: Well, if we don’t, the Children’s Choir will run into the audience and start lynching people. …Can you imagine what that would look like?
Me: …do you listen to yourself when you speak?
Caroline: On occasion.

Victor: -watching me inspect my 25" faux-beard for the play- That's a manly beard.
Me: Isn't it though. It's more manly than yours.
Victor: Yeah, it is.
Caroline: I guess that makes Gina more manly that you, Victor.
Victor: It does. Pound it.
-we pound fists-
Me: What's more, I grow it and shave it in less than a minute.
Victor: Damn.

Victor: Hi, Emily. I like your outfit.
Emily: I'm going to punch you in the face.
Victor: Nice to see you too.
Me: Emily, you're such a violent person.
Emily: Did I ever claim to be otherwise?
Me: Very true.

Emily: Damnit, this is taking forever. Why is the school parking lot so crowded?
Me: ...I totally had a Jersey driver thought.
Emily: What?
Me: My mind immediately thought, "Well, why don't we just drive over the field?"
Emily: GINA. WE'RE NOT IN NEW JERSEY. THAT'S NOT LEGAL.
Me: I know, I'm just saying, it'd be so much faster!

Me: -turns around and catches sight of Matt, who is wearing eyeliner and stage make-up to make it look like he has a beard- ...
Matt: Yeah. I know.
Me: ...guyliner.
Matt: I know.
Me: ...you're wearing guyliner.
Matt: THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.
Me: You should've run. But then, they probably would've caught you and tied you down, huh.

Larry: I have no hell in me, only hello.

Alex: I broke my arm once, when I was at a skate park. I fell on top of it, and suddenly my arm was ass-shaped. It was so gross.

Emily: -wearing a bright yellow shirt- You want to know where the sun went? I killed it. I'm using it's carcass as my shirt.