User Profile

Hello, my name is Cheryl but I do also answer to Cher. I am unsuccessful at introductions and incredibly awkward at first meetings and unfortunately it can take a lengthy amount of time for me to feel comfortable around new people. I hope to someday master the art of being mildly social (this is not to claim that I am anti-social however) but I am actually a fairly shy person.

I am of the belief that my personality was decided and set the day that I was born because I act instantly on decisions once I have decided that I am ready (my mother's labor lasted only 23 minutes with me) and while I may enjoy being cared for, I do not like to be smothered (my mother said that as a baby I had the mentality of "Feed me, change me, now leave me alone."). The only personality trait that has changed within me is that I am increasingly hesitant and afraid of physical affection from other people (except amazingly enough from my significant other). That is to say, I do not hug my friends of a dozen plus years, nor do I go out of my way to hug my family. I am forced into it, and I cringe at various degrees because of it. This may all be temporary, but I have not had a strong enough desire to change this just yet.

I wish I was very well read and am in the process of making baby steps to make it so. I accept reading suggestions, so feel free to send them my way. I only have one condition, that none of it is poetry. However, and this could be hypocritical of me, I will read epic poems. I feel there is a difference. I refuse poetry simply because it is wasted on me, and makes me disappointed that I often (always maybe ) just don't get it. I am not a writer, and I struggle with papers and essays in school. Most often I do not allow myself enough time to write, or I fall under the pressure of writer's block and things along begin to click when I have a shortened amount of time. It is for this reason that I hesitate at the thought of going to graduate school -- If I cannot write, then what is the purpose?

Come December 2008 I will (finally) have a Bachelor's degree, having majored in Philosophy and minored in History and Theology. I am a well rounded person and I hope to become a teacher of Geography, but I will settle for any position that pays me at least half of what I am worth, (in a perfect world it would be equal to and not just half).

I like: going to the gym and working up a sweat, cuddling with my 11 year old black cat by the name of Spawn who believes he is a puppy, watching multiple movies in a row, receiving compliments, Peruvian lilies, playing incredibly easy video games to pass the time, cocktail recipes and appetizers, and accomplishing things.

I dislike: flavors that leave lingering aftertastes, dogs licking my feet, the constant hugging generation, unanswered questions, talking during movies, being dehydrated, liars and addicts, large or sound generating insects, paying bills, not knowing, and procrastination. (That last one is my biggest fault.)

I struggle with issues of motivation, and I tend to interrupt other people constantly --though I am sincerely apologetic once I realize that I have done so. I am eager to offer help, but often times my mind goes blank as to how to assist others. I am very well trained (typically when I hear an order I follow it). Finally now that I am closer to thirty than I am twenty, I have realized that I actually am a Leo since I wish to be the center of someone's world and I can talk "me, me me" all the time. However, though I can be selfish in that sense, I am still loyal to no end.

My biggest wish is to be happy.

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