Everything

Everything you ever wanted to know about The Jordyn but didn’t think to ask.

My flickr profile has ten completely random facts about me and here they are:

1. I hit the random button on my mp3 and Cool from West Side Story plays.
2. I check my email obsessively.
3. I often think I see myself through foggy glasses, ones that blur and hide the positive aspects.
4. I wish my bestie didn’t live so far away; a lot of times she’s the one I rely on to talk me down from the crazy ledge.
5. I really don’t have the patience for good (or halfway decent) photography, but I want to learn.
6. Bookstores are my heaven.
7. I doodle song lyrics, hearts, and broken hearts in the margins of my notebooks.
8. I heart The Office, My Boys, House and Get Smart.
9. I never want to lose the memory of the perfect moments I’ve had in life.
10. I’m not into fashion. (Shocking, I know.)

The regular “about me” questions:

Name: Jordyn

Age: This many (18).

Occupation: Student, published (!!) writer and also aspiring writer. Yes, both.

Favorite Color: Yellow, Red, Brown, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, and Pink.

Interests: Writing, reading, music, lots and lots of iced tea, love, life, living, family and friends, and did I mention writing?

Favorite Books and Authors: John Green, Sarah Dessen, E. Lockhart, Ally Carter, Scott Westerfeld, Ann Brashares, Maureen Johnson, Sharon Creech, Jodi Lynn Anderson, Kieran Scott, Stephanie Meyer

Favorite Movies and Movie Stars: You’ve Got Mail, Napoleon Dynamite, Cool Runnings, Beauty and the Beast, anything by Pixar, I’m Reed Fish, In the Land of Women

Favorite Music and Artists: Taylor Swift, Kate Voegele, Fountains of Wayne, Mozella, Julianne Hough, Toby Keith, Tim and Faith, Rodney Atkins, Rascal Flatts, The Corrs, SheDaisy, Avril Lavigne, Aly & AJ, Jack Johnson, Dixie Chicks, and anything country.

I think a lot. Some people say too much. Here are some of my thoughts, for your enjoyment or edification or amusement - whichever:

• On validation and emotions.
• On being this age.
• On my (surprising) desire to travel.
• On Making Things Happen.
• On sitting in the background and…
• second place.
• And my Huffington Post article on racism (scroll down).

And some of my funnier (or at least less serious) thoughts:

• The bank robbers THAT I DID SEE.
• The aliens.
• The (first!) Jordyn Report.