About « This is StyckyWycket

I’m Julia, known as StyckyWycket in the blogosphere. I’ve been living in two different suburbs and now an exurb of Cleveland since 1984. I enjoy living in Cleveland, but I’m always open to other options.

I spent 12 years in Catholic high school, which has everything to do with the way I am, but probably not the way the nuns had hoped. Then, in an effort to escape my Catholic roots, I went to a Brethren college, which wasn’t much of an improvement. I’ve had various incarnations of what I wanted to be: a Zebra, a nurse, a teacher, a writer, an artist, a business person. I’m currently planning on getting my MBA in marketing, and eventually a degree in art history and museum studies. I still have no idea what I want to be when I grow up.

I met my fiancé [The Boy] when I was in college: ironically, he went to the brother high-school to my all-girls high school, and I had a crush on his younger brother before I even met him. He loves me in spite of that. He is my best friend and the coolest person I know – and I love it when he talks nerdy to me. He’s the only person that I know that can reference typography without actually looking at it. I’m the only person that he knows who knows which fonts he’s talking about. He’s an art teacher for the town we went to college in, which will make this his ninth year living in Ashland.

As my 2008 New Year’s resolution, I am participating in 101 Things in 1001 Days project. This is a way to create real, attainable goals that aren’t confined to something that has to be done every day for a year, or changing a huge habit of your life and sticking to it (most of the time, those goals fail). You can read more about this project at Triplux, and read my list while checking my progress through this entry.

Since 2006, every November, I participate in NaBloPoMo , which is the blogosphere’s answer to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I haven’t had the time to sit and write 60,000 words, so I thought blogging would be more appropriate. In 2006, I missed the finish by a single entry, and in 2007, I phoned it in big-time, and didn’t win a prize. I’m crossing my fingers for 2008.

I’ve been blogging sporadically since 2001, and pissed a few people off because of what I’ve written. I’ve learned finally not to use my blog as my vendetta board. I believe hand-written correspondence is a lost art; cooking involves more than a microwave; I deserve to make as much money as a man, but still should have the door held for me; and my guilty pleasure is reading X-Files fan fiction.