User:Pseqarah

Pseqarah is the username for user Sarah Slone.

I am a student at the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, Kentucky earning my Bachelor's Degree in English. Born in Pikeville, KY, but spent most of my life in Lexington, KY.

A few things about me, I guess... My mom was 18 when i was born, my dad was 22 (or something like that). My mom thought I was going to be red-headed so she ended up buying all these dolls with red hair. She must not have studied the Mendelian Genetics section in her senior Biology course well enough to know red hair is extremely recessive. it must have been a hard lesson to learn when my hair grew out blond. I have three brothers who are each two, four, and six years younger. I'm nineteen, you do the math.My dad was with the Kentucky State Police (KSP) for about 13 years so we moved around the state at least once every year until I was in second grade, so I don't remember much before then. I didn't do much before high school when I joined the marching band's color guard (we wave flags) and made my parent's the proudest they'd ever been of me. in my four year run, the band earned the state title two years in a row and participated in the Rose Bowl Parade in California. Truth be told, I was more excited about Disney World.

I like to tell myself i know exactly what I'm going to do with my life, but I really have no idea about life after college. Sometimes i want to be a librarian, other times I think I'd do really well with lions in a traveling circus. It really just depends on how I'm feeling that day. Without giving any super identifying information, I like cats a lot. I often spend much of my time online just looking at cat pictures and missing my cats at home. I have at least seven, so it's hard being away from them. Without my cats, I surely wouldn't have survived that terrible middle school phase. Life is meow. Above all else, I'm interested in books, quite places, watching classical ballet videos, and spurting out random facts at the most inopportune times. I have a knack for interrupting perfectly awkward silences with awkward words, believing that people will find me awkward. As you can imagine, this is extremely counterproductive to my intended efforts. At these moments, I normally pull out the closest young adult novel and lose myself in the budding romances of high school teenagers and consider my own experiences as a socially inept individual. But, enough rambling.

What makes me more interesting than the average person on this planet is my ability to completely ignore anything and everything at any given moment. I don't like what you just said? Forget it. I just saw something online that I'd like to spend my entire paycheck on? What was that one thing again? Oh, there test was today? OOPS. So maybe I can't really control it all that well, but it's something, right?

My Relationship with Technology
As a self-described child of technology, I grew up around computers and cellphones from the time my mother first brought a Gateway into our home. My five-year-old eyes locked onto that "Moo Moo Cow" box pattern and I've been hooked ever since. I'm not super tech savvy, but i did have a boyfriend in high school who preferred Linux and other open source software over anything Mac or PC so I may have picked up a little coding along the way. I can work my way around an android cell phone like any other. Microsoft Word and Powerpoint are my best friends for life. #BFF In terms of devices, I own a 17.3" Toshiba laptop (covered in stickers), an Alcatel One Touch (with a sticker on the back cover), a Nintendo DS lite (with some sticky stuff from old stickers), and a Nintendo 3DS that has yet to be decorated. So if anything, i'm more interested in how stickers could be made more sticky. My dream for the future is to build my own sticker making machine and provide wall-covering stickers to the masses for low prices.

My love is my laptop, which is why I cover it in pop culture and use it to spread the word about fandom. My sticker collection includes Doctor Who, My little Pony, ThinkGeek.com, and Clockwork Orange. Chrome is my beloved, preferred browser simply because it works for longer than two seconds without freezing.

How Wikipedia Affects my feels
In my troubled middle school years, I often cited Wiki's as legitimate sources of information in many of my little two-page informative articles. As much as my teachers tried to knock me from doing this, I never listened. People cite things, Mrs. Settles! This is legitimate stuff, Mr. Rhodney! These are serious issues and I need a serious website! Of course, Wikipedia is often edited by people who could care less about the differences between Macro and Microevolution theories and so mistakes or wrong information is often listed and voted as being correct. Now that I'm such a mature, nineteen-year-old adult (don't laugh at me), I'm to the point where I understand it's not really good for much besides that often long list of citations at the end. Oh well, thirteen-year-old me was disappointed.

In an effort to provide some suggestions to improving the Wiki, I have decided to address the often problematic relationship between fan-peoples and the Wikipedia pages of their idols. The Wiki should advertise their sister page, "Uncyclopedia" as a healthy alternative to adding more work on for those who are seriously interested in providing correct information. This website is dedicated to providing parodies to the masses, from British actors like Matt Smith to Japanese movies like "The Shinsengumi". For the rabid fans of the world, this is an overlooked opportunity to gush without being inconvenient.

Also, I strongly believe in userboxes for military brats. Someone should get on that.