Brief Introduction

yow, my name is Victoria. Holler! So at risk of sounding tres poseur, I'm what some might call a "yippie" or "yipster" - a cross between a yuppie and a hippie/hipster. That is to say, I pull in a decent salary as a corporate analyst in Midtown Manhattan, while maintaining an avant-garde "dirtyish" lifestyle on the Western shores of Brooklyn (read: Williamsburg). Ah, Billyburg, where the Rich look Poor.

Miscellany: I smoke Nat Sherman Classic Mint cigarettes but rarely booze it up. I'm a generalist on almost any topic and a specialist in none. I have ADHD. No, seriously, I do. But it's ok, I like having thirty hobbies and no stable, long-term relationships. I judge people by their SAT scores. I was raised in an evangelical Christian home, attended a private Christian school, and participated in some form of a religious brainwashing exercise at least three times a week until I was eighteen. I first spoke in tongues when I was eleven; I stopped believing in God when I was twelve. I moved to New York as a young heterosexual Republican to study broadcast journalism and somehow break my way onto Saturday Night Live; five years later, I'm now a fiercely liberal lesbian with a degree in Economics and a desk job at a major corporate law firm. I plan to live forever.

Finally, my biggest fear is that rogue terrorists / despotic governments will obtain nano-technological weapons of war within my lifespan. Or that there won't be any new, hot, gay show to replace The L Word next year.

New blog!

I was idly browsing through my Google homepage this morning, scanning RSS feeds and top news headlines, when I came across this New York Times article on our country's current energy policy. My reaction was so intense, so angry and frustrated, that I knew I needed some way to channel this response, to let the negative energy leave my person and rest elsewhere. My solution? I decided to create this blog.

I don't necessarily consider this a venting spot; that is to say, not all of my posts will be of the negative or hostile variety. I'm not looking to war against the neo-cons who run this country, nor to rail against those who would re-elect these fiends.

Instead, I'll post news articles of interest to me (on various topics), ramble on about my political leanings, share details of my life's recent events, and tell embarrassing stories about myself and my friends.

Hopefully some people will find the deep inner recesses of my mind entertaining; probably not.