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Okay, so I'm posting this totally late because I honestly had no idea it was mandatory. My prophesy about getting disqualified would have been even earlier than I imagined(which is like topic 2), but I e-mailed one of the community mods, and they were really nice enough to allow me an exception :D. In the past, the introduction wasn't mandatory.

Okay, so I doubt many people will be reading this, but I'll introduce myself. My name is Yelizaveta, but call me "Liza", or "Lisa", or sometimes even "LIZ4R". My username comes from my online alias for many years. It is a pokemon reference. Don't ask, because I don't really like Pokemon anymore >_<. I will just tell you that the Pokemon in regard is one that no one knows about- this big fire dog-

Named "Arcanine".

Pokemon was one of my many obsessions. I go through obsessions very often because I change my interests all the time. My basic interests involve the following:

1. Japan and things related to it
2. Studying languages(usually Japanese)
3. Reading fiction
4.Watching TV
5. Chocolate and candies
6. CAKE
7. Eating out
8. Seeing new places
9. Odd collections such as quarters
10. Surfing the internet
11. Watching movies
12. Cute fuzzy animals.
13. Video Games

Pretty basic. Nothing really out of the ordinary. I'm actually pretty well-rounded, and boring, I think, but one of my hobbies is amusing people, so I can be interesting if I want to be. I think I am very friendly, but not so outgoing. I need a ton of alone time, and I do not thrive in big groups at all. I like having one or two person's paying attention to me, but not so much more than that. I can be talkative, and I'm really good at doing that because my job really requires it(I'm an English teacher in Japan, and some of my classes involve talking for an hour). I'm also quite tall.

I was born in Russia, and moved to the US when I was 5. I lived in Colorado, where I went skiing all the time(yeah, it's famous pretty much only for that), and then moved to the Bay Area(Northern California) where I lived basically until over a year ago. I like the Bay Area a lot, and perhaps I always want to move back there, even if I spend some time away from there. It's a really interesting place to live. I have been living in Japan for the past year or so, teaching English in a small Family business. I like it, overall, but I'm going home in December to concentrate more on graduate school. I'm studying from home right now to be a librarian.

I like cute fuzzy animals a lot, and I actually found some kitten in Japan with a horribly infected eye that needed surgery, sent him to the US, and gave him to my mom(after I spent a ton of money sending him, paying for his surgery, and paying for the mess he made all over my apt -_-). Most Japanese apartments don't allow animals. Now I... have a betta fish. A red one, because my friend killed my blue one ^_^*. However, my favorite animal has always been the Killer Whale. I love no show more than the Killer Whale show at Sea World. Nowadays, though, I feel sorry for the animals and my dream is to go to Alaska where I could see them in their natural environment! This is the context for my speech in Japanese, btw.

I like people who are: kind yet direct, considerate, easygoing, funny, and HOPEFULLY share some interests with me(though this isn't always important because some of my best friends don't really have anything in common with me).

I have been in a relationship with some silly boy who lives in Florida for over 4 years. It's been a very nice relationship, but it sucks having it be long distance : (. My dream OTHER than the killer whales is to make him move to CA, but I don't know if that will ever happen. I guess that's what dreams are, though. Not sure if they will come true or not. I will never move to Florida. It's a horrible place to live and I strongly have always felt that way. No offense to any Floridians. Your state isn't in my favor so much : (. At least it's like... never cold there. But I'm from Russia, I like the cold >_>;.

Anyway, I like writing, and have been writing fiction all my life. One of my first stories I wrote was about this dolphin named "Speckles" who met a Killer Whale. I was 10 when I wrote that, and then a couple more stories, about aliens and such, and then went on to write fanfiction. Now, I write when I'm in the mood to. Mainly fiction. Other than live journal(which basically serves as a chronology of my life), I just write essays for school. I want to be challenged with more topics! This is mainly why I wanted to participate in LJ idol. I read a lot of entries last season from my friend

unsold_capacity who participated and got far, and also most of the entries of the final 20 or so.

I have a lot of negative qualities, mainly that I hold huge grudges, I am arrogant, and I feel like I'm not at fault for anything I do and I hate getting criticism. For example, just right now, as I was writing this, this coworker I can't stand knocks on my door and asks me to teach his classes on Saturday because he had some engagement in Tokyo. I said I wasn't interested at all in it. I didn't say what I wanted to, which was that if it had been anyone else asking me to do this, I'd do it of course. This is all because the guy yelled at me one of the first days he met me for absolutely no reason, and real actual cursing and yelling. He's done it to everyone, and I won't forgive something like that. I don't like people like that at all.

I think that's all. I wish I didn't make these things so long. That's why I didn't want to write it in the first place.

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-LiZ4R