[WHO] nicole. you can also call me nic or even nickles.

[WHERE] akron pennsylvania. it's rather boring here. land of amish and fat people. *shudders*

[WHEN] now. right now. i love now. i'm extremely spontaneous and love to do things as they pop into my head. now is always a good time.

[WHY] why not? mainly because i'm bored, and unemployed. bored unemployed people seem to have a lot of time on their hands, like me.

[HOW] with my microsized knowledge of HTML. i'm sure you've noticed that nothing on this site is very complicated. you can attribute that to my almost nonexistant web-building skills. and the fact that i rarely bother to update this site. my life isn't terribly interesting. and i have the livejournal for that.

[LOVES] i adore australia. something about it just intrigues me, and has since i was a little kid. i think it started with kangaroos. other loves of mine include VAST, industrial/EBM music, my car, the invader zim, tea, magic dirt (which conveniently is the layout of this page), mindless self indulgence, hockey, and japanese food (especially sushi!!).

[HOBBIES] if you could call them that... i read tons, mess around with my guitar and violin (i suck pretty bad to be honest), write in my journal (on and offline), get lost in cyberspace, sleep, go to denny's (and other diners), do the bar thing, and contemplate the world.. or just drink tea, take pictures, look for a job, drive my car, paint occasionally, and read some more. sometimes i go to clubs and/or parties, but not that often because usually i am broke, or close to. as you can tell i'm not the most exciting person in the world. but pretty damn interesting. sometimes.

[FAMILY] my family is your average american family by today's standards, i guess. divorced parents. one cat named luna. she rocks. i live with my mom and my stepdad, jeff. there are two stepbrothers that don't live here, one in pittsburgh (tony) and the other in colorado (nick). my mom and i get along pretty well. my stepdad i don't much talk to. it's kinda awkward.
i don't see my dad very often, but when i do we mostly just go out to lunch and shoot the shit. and usually he'll either praise me if i have a job or lecture me on its importance if i don't. i really could live without that. he also has a nasty troll of a wife that i intensely dislike, and thankfully the feeling is mutual. needless to say i don't spend much time at their house, but thankfully that's going to change because he is (finally) leaving her. yay.
i have a few grandparents scattered around the boyertown area that i don't see much of and the rest of my family (aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmother..) live down south in georgia or tennessee. i hardly ever see them so i guess they aren't really worth mentioning much about. they're cool people though. just so you know.

[WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING] i tried out college for awhile, community style. it wasn't really my thing. i felt like i was still in high school so i dropped out after a few terms. worked for awhile. i also tried art school (do not waste your time with the art institute, they're just out to rip you off. their drop out rate is 80%) for awhile but the way things were set up it felt like it was just a huge chore. had a few more jobs in between. i was in a friends' wedding in 2002 (october 18), i was a bridesmaid and it was gorgeous. i'm really happy for them. lately i've been looking for a job (my employment history is so bad) and researching doing the aupair thing in various places. so far australia seems to be winning. i'm not sure where i want to be right now. more and more often it seems it ought to be somewhere else, i just don't know where. but time will tell.

[RANDOM OTHER CRAP] these days i still don't have a whole ton of friends, but i have people i care about and that care about me. i like that. i think i've finally started to choose people that are more healthy to be around. i still hate it when people assume because i'm sort of diffent looking (piercings, tattoos, hair dyed etc) that i'm this nutcase or drug user, but i've learned not to be quite such an asshole about it. people suck, and always will. it's just not really worth bitching about anymore, unless it's for an important reason...such as me not getting a job because of my looks. which is (and always will be) bullshit.

hmm. i didn't think i had this much to write about me. well since you now know everything that's necessary i shall shut up about myself.

[[i've come back from all my quitting..]]