Weblog Wannabe

The Obligatory About Page

The name I answer to is Firda, not Frida, and I am a CSS fanatic. I know more about CSS than I care to admit, but I’m not confident enough to share what I know with other people. I’d rather share my designs than show people how to create one. I know all about the “teach ‘em to fish, don’t give ‘em fish” stuff, but I just don’t have a teacher’s patience.

I picked the picture above to grace this page because when I showed it to my best friend Troy, he said that I look like I’m either disappointed or sternly telling him not to do something. Since the message I want to convey through the picture is “steal my designs and your genital will rot”, I think it serves the purpose just right. I always put a lot of work into my designs so it's only natural that I get upset when people steal my hard work. If you like my designs, you can always hire me to do one for you. There’s no need to steal.

I’m not a people person, both online and offline. You’ll never find me chatting in IRC, actively posting in message boards or mailing lists, frequently commenting in other people’s weblogs, or hanging out with a bunch of people. I’m the kind of person you’ll see standing alone in a corner, just watching the scene. I'm a wallflower, a people watcher, and a good reader of human characters.

I love getting emails but am always too lazy to reply. I hate it when people judge me based solely on my inability to reply to their email. It’s nothing personal, really. I’m just lazy, and I suck at small talk. I love people who send me a friendly email without expecting a reply. I consider such email a lovely gift.

In my dictionary (that still has yet to be written), “blog” is a verb and “weblog” is a noun. I wish more people had the same understanding of those words as I do. Reading weblogs would be a lot less irritating that way, at least for me. Since I don’t enjoy getting irritated, I don’t read too many weblogs. In fact, I only read a couple regularly. It’s enough for me. I’m not really a weblog junkie anyway.

I always say what I mean and mean what I say. I dislike people who say something nice just for the sake of being nice. I don’t like the word “nice”. It’s such a meaningless word. I tend to be very outspoken. If you ask for my opinion on anything, you will get my honest opinion. If you’re expecting me to tell you only what you want to hear, don’t even bother to ask. Did I say I suck at small talk?

I don’t watch much TV. There is no TV show that I watch religiously. If I didn’t watch TV for a month, I wouldn’t feel like I’m missing anything. Sometimes I turn the TV on when I can’t sleep, just for the noise. TV noise is like a lullabye to me. It makes me sleepy. I have a pink TV. I don’t like pink. I like yellow, but yellow TV was out of stock.

Now on to some random things. I have a degree in library science. I worked as a librarian for three years. I spent two of the three years working for one of the largest libraries in the world. I didn’t enjoy it. I don’t drink alcohol, smoke, or do drugs. I don’t drink coffee and soda, either. I love jasmine tea as much as I love Toblerone chocolates. I have a thing for gay men. I wish I were somebody’s faghag. I love babies. I’m an aunt to a cute baby boy named Emir and a cute baby girl named Ayra. We have two turtles named Kuncung and Bawuk. They stink.

The end.