User:Faya

General Info
Hi there! I'm one of the millions of Wikipedia users out there. I'm Faya. My pseudonym comes from the first letters of the English words for all you are. I don't know why but that phrase just appeals to me. I'm an 18-year-old college student and I've been a Wikipedian since Halloween (October 31) 2005.

Interests

 * Books: I'm a bookworm—I'll read pretty much anything except hate speech
 * My personal library: 151791 pages in 477 books
 * I keep an MS Access database of all my books—yes I am a nerd
 * Computers
 * Languages (computer): Quite a lot—especially...
 * Linoleum
 * Prolog (edinburgh/standard)
 * Narrator (version 5.6.4)
 * Visual Basic (versions 5-6)
 * QuickBASIC (version 4.5)
 * DOS Batch
 * Lexico (version 2.0b)
 * And also...
 * Dynamic HTML
 * Microsoft Access (versions 95-xp)
 * SQL
 * TI-83 Plus
 * Wiki markup
 * as well as familiarity with many others...
 * Languages (human): Quite a lot—see my babel (the list at the top-right corner of this page)
 * as well as familiarity with many others...
 * Language exchange: Actively seeking partners, even for languages not listed at my babel!
 * Translation: I welcome any translation jobs you can offer me—no job is too large or too small!
 * Learning—there's always something new to learn
 * Meeting people
 * Movies: wide range—especially...
 * Action
 * Comedy
 * Romantic comedy
 * Music: All kinds (except rap/hip-hop/most pop)
 * Psychology: The complexity of the mind fascinates me
 * Wikipedia: Strong and wide-ranging interest (contributions)
 * Writing: Prose, poetry, essays, you name it

Quotes I Like

 * "In a mad world only the mad are sane."
 * Akira Kurosawa


 * "As you slide down the banister of life may the splinters never point the wrong way."
 * Irish blessing


 * "Wild nights! wild nights! / Were i with thee / Wild nights should be / Our luxury!"
 * From "Wild nights! wild nights!" by Emily Dickinson


 * "There are 10 kinds of people in the world—those who think in binary and those who don't."
 * A T-shirt


 * "And in my heart i will forgive you / i've got so much love to give you"
 * From "Never Too Late" by Kylie Minogue


 * "I am sick. Sick sick sick. And when i'm not sick—i'm tired. I am sick and tired."
 * Wanda Sykes as "Ruby" in Monster-in-Law


 * "—and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . . . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday—if once we lost our way, blundered into the storm—would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise?"
 * From Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan


 * "Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow."
 * Swedish proverb


 * "Don't let some hellbent heart leave you bitter / When you come close to selling out—reconsider"
 * From "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack


 * "A computer will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you wanted [it] to do."
 * Alessandro Ghignola


 * "Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."
 * From One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez


 * "i go / you stay / two autumns"
 * Taniguchi Buson


 * "The end has not yet been written."
 * Atrus (from Myst: The Book of Atrus by Rand and Robyn Miller)