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skylilies.livejournal.comName: Kailey (Kay)
Age: 17
Location: Colorado, US
How do you identify?: lesbian/female
Interests/hobbies: lately, i've been working on a photography business (portrait photography, senior pictures for twelfth graders currently) (have a deviantart link!), and i write (it's ...very natural and beautiful to me, i don't think i'll ever be able to stop writing even if i want to or how much it drives me crazy) -- and read, quite a lot. i'm also getting into cooking (vegetarian/vegan style) and ...hm. i don't know, is jumping around on the outskirts of different fandoms a hobby? or playing with my ten cats? xD
Favourite books: Enchantment by Orson Scott Card is one of my favorite books of all time -- i love his writing style and most of his other books, including the Ender's Game/Shadow series. I've also really liked Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and After Dark by Haruki Murakami. um, other authors i like include F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.G. Wells, Tamora Pierce, Alice Hoffman, Kurt Vonnegut... this gives a pretty good idea of the kind of books i like, though i'm always open to recs ♥ /reads a lot.
Favourite films: Hayao Miyazaki films, Miracle, R.E.N.T., Slumdog Millionaire, ...i'm not very good at remembering films i've enjoyed, but i tend to like indie & foreign films that leave an impression -- like Caramel or the Japanese film 46 Billion Years of Love (46億年の恋). more recently, i adored Inception (i like that kind of adrenaline rush -- the Oceans Eleven type strategy solving WILL THEY MAKE IT AND OH THEY ARE CLEVER! rush -- rather than a horror movie type of rush.) I also enjoyed the first half of Fight Club? /dies. And tv-wise, i love Scrubs, have watched all of Friends, am developing a strange crush on House, and ...watch design shows and cooking shows all the time with my family.
Favourite music: the best place to look is probably my last.fm. (currently 'good time' by leroy is stuck in my head/trying to become my theme song xD) i like all different types of english music (cobra starship, tegan & sara, lykke li, shakira, metric, jason mraz, stars, dragonette, the beatles, marilyn manson, eminem, loreena mckennitt, placebo, sam sparro, MIKA, modest mouse, bush, beck, tricky, marina & the diamonds, m.i.a., matt nathanson, etc etc/all genres), jrock (miyavi, alice nine, gazette, kirito, etc), kpop (epik high, big bang, dbsk, super junior, after school) and other genres like classical music, celtic music ...i'm open to just about everything and i love it when people share new music with me. (: I REALLY WANT TO LEARN MORE FOREIGN MUSIC, i've been exploring spanish bands, but i'm curious about others as well!
What would you like to send/receive?: i'd like to start with emails (PM me and i'll give you my email!), i'm more comfortable getting to know someone before i give out my address, but i'm a huge fan of handwritten letters. they're so personal and special and really give you a sense of who the person is. so eventually, handwritten notes/long letters and photographs/trinkets would be lovely o:
Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: i'm fine with anyone! i can only speak english fluently and i would love to speak to people who know spanish - i'm not even at conversational level (i took spanish for about a year and a half; i can read it reasonably well but have trouble responding/building proper sentences :/) but i'd like to learn more/just really admire the language. also, i do tend to get along with older friends, better, but i'm open to meeting anyone.
What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: any country is fine! i like learning about different cultures, so variety is nice o:
Anything that you would particularly NOT like to receive?: (eg. "food/candy with nuts") since i'm asking for emails to start with, nothing that i can think of!
What would be in your dream letter or package?: my dream package would be a stack of letters from different days of the week, along with little doodles or sticky notes, things that have meaning or make you smile, and little trinkets - like, the fortune from a fortune cookie or the leaf you found on the ground that caught your eye. I DON'T KNOW, I'M DORKY OKAY. 8|
Anything else you'd like to add?: i'm currently recovering from a serious chronic illness (CFIDS), so i'm not always sure how quickly i'll respond to emails, but i think that's part of the beauty of penpals - the letter stays and waits for you to answer it, unlike talking to someone in person or over instant messaging. and letters are personal in a different way o: also, i'm re-posting this (with a few alterations), and i want to apologize to the previous people who contacted me; i was going through a huge amount of personal struggles/changes in my life and wasn't able to keep up contact. things are settled down a bit more now (and i've recovered from my illness a bit more) so i have more energy for this (:
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Age: 17
Location: Colorado, US
How do you identify?: lesbian/female
Interests/hobbies: lately, i've been working on a photography business (portrait photography, senior pictures for twelfth graders currently) (have a deviantart link!), and i write (it's ...very natural and beautiful to me, i don't think i'll ever be able to stop writing even if i want to or how much it drives me crazy) -- and read, quite a lot. i'm also getting into cooking (vegetarian/vegan style) and ...hm. i don't know, is jumping around on the outskirts of different fandoms a hobby? or playing with my ten cats? xD
Favourite books: Enchantment by Orson Scott Card is one of my favorite books of all time -- i love his writing style and most of his other books, including the Ender's Game/Shadow series. I've also really liked Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and After Dark by Haruki Murakami. um, other authors i like include F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.G. Wells, Tamora Pierce, Alice Hoffman, Kurt Vonnegut... this gives a pretty good idea of the kind of books i like, though i'm always open to recs ♥ /reads a lot.
Favourite films: Hayao Miyazaki films, Miracle, R.E.N.T., Slumdog Millionaire, ...i'm not very good at remembering films i've enjoyed, but i tend to like indie & foreign films that leave an impression -- like Caramel or the Japanese film 46 Billion Years of Love (46億年の恋). more recently, i adored Inception (i like that kind of adrenaline rush -- the Oceans Eleven type strategy solving WILL THEY MAKE IT AND OH THEY ARE CLEVER! rush -- rather than a horror movie type of rush.) I also enjoyed the first half of Fight Club? /dies. And tv-wise, i love Scrubs, have watched all of Friends, am developing a strange crush on House, and ...watch design shows and cooking shows all the time with my family.
Favourite music: the best place to look is probably my last.fm. (currently 'good time' by leroy is stuck in my head/trying to become my theme song xD) i like all different types of english music (cobra starship, tegan & sara, lykke li, shakira, metric, jason mraz, stars, dragonette, the beatles, marilyn manson, eminem, loreena mckennitt, placebo, sam sparro, MIKA, modest mouse, bush, beck, tricky, marina & the diamonds, m.i.a., matt nathanson, etc etc/all genres), jrock (miyavi, alice nine, gazette, kirito, etc), kpop (epik high, big bang, dbsk, super junior, after school) and other genres like classical music, celtic music ...i'm open to just about everything and i love it when people share new music with me. (: I REALLY WANT TO LEARN MORE FOREIGN MUSIC, i've been exploring spanish bands, but i'm curious about others as well!
What would you like to send/receive?: i'd like to start with emails (PM me and i'll give you my email!), i'm more comfortable getting to know someone before i give out my address, but i'm a huge fan of handwritten letters. they're so personal and special and really give you a sense of who the person is. so eventually, handwritten notes/long letters and photographs/trinkets would be lovely o:
Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: i'm fine with anyone! i can only speak english fluently and i would love to speak to people who know spanish - i'm not even at conversational level (i took spanish for about a year and a half; i can read it reasonably well but have trouble responding/building proper sentences :/) but i'd like to learn more/just really admire the language. also, i do tend to get along with older friends, better, but i'm open to meeting anyone.
What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: any country is fine! i like learning about different cultures, so variety is nice o:
Anything that you would particularly NOT like to receive?: (eg. "food/candy with nuts") since i'm asking for emails to start with, nothing that i can think of!
What would be in your dream letter or package?: my dream package would be a stack of letters from different days of the week, along with little doodles or sticky notes, things that have meaning or make you smile, and little trinkets - like, the fortune from a fortune cookie or the leaf you found on the ground that caught your eye. I DON'T KNOW, I'M DORKY OKAY. 8|
Anything else you'd like to add?: i'm currently recovering from a serious chronic illness (CFIDS), so i'm not always sure how quickly i'll respond to emails, but i think that's part of the beauty of penpals - the letter stays and waits for you to answer it, unlike talking to someone in person or over instant messaging. and letters are personal in a different way o: also, i'm re-posting this (with a few alterations), and i want to apologize to the previous people who contacted me; i was going through a huge amount of personal struggles/changes in my life and wasn't able to keep up contact. things are settled down a bit more now (and i've recovered from my illness a bit more) so i have more energy for this (:
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