highways | INTRO POST

⁜ I am Brittany!

⁜ This is me. Now you know me better.

⁜ I'm also

rocknload,

shibboleth,

captainfuckingkirk,

deathbystereo, and

sameoldstory.

⁜ I run

mandarin101 and

en_espanol. My other communities are for my writing,

shibboleth, and roleplaying shenanigans,

tumult.

⁜ I have moved a lot. I was born in Los Angeles and lived there until I was seven. After that: Big Bear Lake, California, Gilbert, Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona, Okayama, Japan, Taichung, Taiwan, Tucson, Arizona, and currently Honolulu, Hawaii. Okayama was only for a summer but it made a huge impression on me, and Taichung was for two semesters of college. ~~Now I live with my roommate climax and my psychotic cat Quincey Morris. I'm moving to Honolulu, Hawaii, in August.~~ I'm now renting a room in a house in Kalihi, and looking for something closer to campus for next semester.

⁜ I studied linguistics and languages at the University of Arizona. My native language is English; I've also studied Mandarin, Spanish, Japanese, and French. I understand these languages to varying degrees, but the only one I can really speak without mental agony is Mandarin.

⁜ I'm now a graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, studying linguistics: specifically language documentation and conversation. Like most of the people in my department, my area of interest is Chinese and Pacific languages.

⁜ My interests are reading, writing, obsessively looking up facts on Wikipedia, music, comic books (which is still reading I guess), travel, interrogating people on their personal linguistic histories, politics, politics, and also politics.

⁜ I'm currently an intern for a politician; I've also worked as a land surveyor for, wow, probably ten years at this point. I'm trying to get another job that pays steadier for but now I still work as a surveyor whenever I get a chance.

⁜ My ultimate goals in life are to 1) ~~graduate with an undergrad degree in linguistics~~, 2) ~~go to grad school~~, 3) ???.

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