Post by lydia noelle ferguson on Dec 11, 2010 4:51:28 GMT -5
lydia noelle ferguson
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SO.. WHAT'S YOUR NAME, AND IS THERE ANY COOL MEANING OR STORY BEHIND IT?
"my name is lydia noelle ferguson. i don't know if you would call it a cool story but it's a story nonetheless; from the day they found out my sex when my mom was pregnant with me the two argued over whether my name should be lydia or noelle. mom was all about lydia and dad was for noelle, so when my dad was out of the room my mom filled out my birth certificate. to this day my dad refuses to call me lydia, it's always been noelle to him. i don't really have cool nickname though, every once and awhile people will throw out shortened versions of my first name, you know, lyd, dia, di, once someone even called me 'l' yeah just l. i don't really have a solid formed opinion of nicknames and me either, just never call me l or ferggie."
AWESOME! SO ARE YOU MALE OR FEMALE? OR SOMETHING ELSE? YOU CAN NEVER BE TOO SURE NOWADAYS..
"i would be of the female gender."
HOW OLD ARE YOU?
"i'm eighteen, just around the corner of turning nineteen in march. i'm a first year student at columbia university."
WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
"just this minuscule town in wisconsin named albany. it's not so bad though, close to some great places like madison, milwaukee and chicago, it's just very small and very boring. new york has kind of been a culture shock to me."
NOW MOVING ONTO WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE. HOW TALL ARE YOU, AND IF YOU DON'T MIND ME ASKING, HOW MUCH DO YOU WEIGH?
"well, i splayed across my ever so fair skin there are, i swear, thousands of freckles, my brother always jokes that if you connected all my freckles i'd be tan. i've got fiery red hair and some rather nice crystal blue eyes to boot. it's been said to me that i'm miniature, standing at but five-foot-one but i'd like to think that the height suits me and i'm quite compact, i can even fit in overhead storage of an airplane, don't ask me how i know this. as far as my weight goes, i think that 110 is decent for my age and build."
WHAT GENDER ARE YOU MOSTLY INTO: GUYS, GIRLS OR BOTH?
"i'm definitely more attracted to the male species but i can't deny that i do find some women attractive. although i'm certain i would never actually be interested in another woman."
WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT?
"i'm quite good at multitasking, writing, staying on top of my studies, cooking and baking, i'm a hard worker and also very determined, i've been told that i'm pretty witty and very sarcastic when i want to be. i'm also a great listener, i kind of pride myself on being an ear to hear and a shoulder to cry on, i'm real keen on being there for people because i didn't really have that growing up. "
COOL. WHAT ARE YOU NOT SO GOOD AT?
"i guess i take things too seriously, it can sometimes take a person to physically shake me to get me to focus on something other than school. and if i'm being honest here and i know this, i can be way too sensitive, especially to criticism, in fact i almost didn't even apply to columbia because of the fear of rejection. then of course there are little things like the fact that i lack an athletic bone in my body or that i can't sing for shit, yet i always find myself doing the latter...my poor roommate."
AWW, THAT SUCKS. WHAT DO YOU LIKE?"
"so many things, coffee, books, the snow and the rain, the occasional glass of wine, french culture, other redheads, lazy days, autumn, succeeding, good grades, making my parents proud, although i haven't done much of it, traveling, cooking, baking, winter clothes, writing."
I LIKE SOME OF THOSE THINGS TOO! WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE?
"getting anything below a b, humidity, have you seen what it does to my hair? having my photo taken without my knowledge, terribly hot weather, those freaky little dogs, mall santas, going to the mall in general, people who get in my space or are very touchy, that's just weird."
I SEE. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU FEAR?
"mostly, i'm afraid of typical things, you know, losing my family, rejection, failure. then there are some personal ones, i'm afraid of being in another abusive relationship because i don't have a way out this time...also a few silly fears, clowns and i have this one silly fear of ever being serenaded. i don't think it's romantic at all, just embarrassing"
WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE, DO YOU HAVE ANY HOPES AND DREAMS?
"well since i'm a psychology major, i'd really like to take that somewhere, what i really want to do with my degree is become a counselor for young, battered women. maybe also publish a book since i love writing so much, it's just that fear of rejection..."
GOOD LUCK WITH THOSE! OKAY, SO I LIKE ABIT OF GOSSIP. DO YOU HAVE ANY SECRETS? I WON'T TELL ANYONE.
"honestly? you really won't tell any one? i have two pretty big ones, one that no one on the planet knows but, i cheated on the math section of my sats. the other a handful of people know, i mentioned it earlier, i was in an abusive relationship throughout high school and my older brother beat the guy half to death when he found out."
WOW. TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR PERSONALITY. I WANNA KNOW WHAT YOU'RE LIKE AS A PERSON.
"i'd like to think i'm a nice enough person, although, a tad shy at first but when i loosen up aka after a glass or two of wine, i'm very bubbly and friendly. i genuinely care about every person i meet and especially the people i call my friends, i get incredibly protective of those. i'm very soft spoken unless a sensitive or serious subject for me come up then not so much. as mentioned a few questions ago, i take things, especially school very seriously, i want nothing more than to do well here, i guess i can be a tad abrasive when my school work is involved. i can be really sarcastic to the point where some people find me rude and others just find it amusing. i can also be really sensitive, i don't like talking about high school much at all, i much rather focus on the now or the future, not my past"
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND?
"i like polite guys with good manners, i did the bad boy thing in high school and it landed me in the hospital. a nice guy is what i want now. i don't need a whole lot of romance, it's more the little things for me, like letting me have the first cup of coffee from a freshly brewed pot or picking me up something i need from the store while you're out. i appreciate a good sense of humor, too."
WELL I GUESS THAT PUTS ME OUT OF THE RUNNING. WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE IN A BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND?
"ugh, even alluding to being able to hit a girl, even if i had never been hit by a guy that is something that should never be done. sleazes. drunkards. the needy kind, the needs to talk multiple times a day, writes on my facebook wall when they''re going to see me later in the day, it gets creepy after awhile. the guys that try too hard to impress, overly athletic guys that have gigantic muscles that are bigger than me."
OKAY, WELL I'M GOING TO ASK WHAT SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITES ARE NOW, OKAY?
"i'm pretty awful at favorites but okay, shoot."
FAVOURITE FOOD & DRINK?
"food would have to be spaghetti. drink, i'm choosing between wine and coffee...oh what the hell? coffee"
FAVOURITE MOVIE & TV SHOW?
"movie, love, actually it's a christmas must for me. tv show, now don't make fun of me, the x-files. don't tell anyone"
FAVOURITE BAND/SINGER?
"i absolutely adore florence and the machine right now. she has such a powerful voice and the music is so catchy."
FAVOURITE COLOUR?
"green. it's been that way since i was a kid."
FAVOURITE LYRIC OR QUOTE?
"someday my pain will mark you- wolves part 1 & 2 by bon iver"
THAT WAS FUN. TELL ME A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR PARENTS.
"my parents are great, split up when i was fourteen, though.
my dad, phillip (age 50) who is an electronic component salesman, remarried the wicked witch from the west, sueanne (age 37) who is a housewife with an english degree.
my mom kathrine (age 48) and is an art teacher at my old high school stayed unmarried after the divorce to focus on her own art. she is now seeing someone, raymond (age 45)."
DO YOU HAVE ANY SIBLINGS?
"i most certainly do. i come from a big family, we all ended up scattered throughout the world.
there's skyler, my oldest brother is 24, living in northern mexico with his wife amanda (age 21), they have a chicken farm together and barely get by.
denae, my oldest sister at 22, living in seattle working towards becoming a photographer but is working as a secretary until then.
mitchell is age 17, he dropped out of school, ran away from albany and is now backpacking through europe, i get a postcard every few weeks.
zeke is 14 and my youngest sibling from my parents marriage. he's a freshman in high school.
bethany is 4, she is my dad and sueanne's first and only child."
TELL ME ABOUT A REALLY GOOD TIME IN YOUR LIFE.
"back when i was, god, i must've been twelve or thirteen, my family made a trip around europe, it was incredible. the whole trip was a surprise, our parents made it out like we were just going to disneyland or something but when we boarded a plane to england there was an uproar withing the family unit. the plan was then revealed to us that we would be spending a month traveling through europe, seeing the sights, experiencing the culture. it was so exciting for most of us, mitch still wanted disneyland, funny, huh? the entire experience was mindboggling. so much beauty. i think i even cried out first day in france. being able to see all these beautiful places i spent hours looking at in books in person, being able to touch them was almost too amazing for words. i went again with a few friends for my senior trip but it wasnt the same without my family."
THAT SOUNDS AWESOME. WHAT ABOUT A NOT-SO-GOOD TIME ON YOUR LIFE?
"well, i guess i can talk about steven, the abusive boyfriend. we met in freshman year, he was the pretty bad boy that all the girls thought was so cool, oh he smoked under the bleachers, came to school drunk, got in fights, he was the very boy every mother had nightmares about. he wanted me. it was baffling because no boy even looked at me in junior high...i was smitten. then, he hit me, it was the summer before sophomore year and he thought it was time we had sex and i wasn't ready, i ran off after he hit, ignored him for a week before he was at my locker begging for me to take it back and i did, i must have done it a hundred times. i thought i loved him, i thought he loved me, i thought i deserved to be hit, i thought having sex would fix everything, it didn't. he got more jealous, more violent before the breaking point, the night of our senior prom i danced with a mutual friend of ours and he lost it, hospitalized me on our way home by throwing me out of the car going 55 miles, the next day skyler beat him withing hlf an inch of his life."
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