Hey, it's finally time we met.

 Well, I'd say it's probably time for a better introduction than the one I did about a year ago? Yeah, it is.
Since moving to the midwest people have actually been able to (more so than in New England) pronounce my name correctly: Fallon--> "Fal-lynn." Simple, right? Apparently not. As of right now, I'm a barely-twenty-something writing student in Chicago, and probably don't sleep enough and drink too much caffeine. But then again, who doesn't? This blog is really just a way to track what I'm doing. For myself, for others, since we live in an age of over-exploitation, and human curiosity tends to result in voyeurism.

But if you'd like to know a little more about me than what I write here, I'll give you a list. I like lists.

A lot.

• I try to run every day, it keeps me from having to take any happy pills. Plus, I like the rush.
• Over the past two years I've developed (or just realized which, I'm more likely to believe, considering I always had horrible stomach aches growing up) a gluten and dairy intolerance. 
• I'm a vegetarian because we watched a PBS special on how Melville got the inspiration for Moby Dick junior year of high school, and in the reenactment they showed the surviving sailors eating the "flesh" of one of their crew members. It looked like turkey meat, which caused me to start dry heaving in the middle of class. It took me about two weeks of still eating dead animals to realize that I couldn't anymore because that image was too haunting. Yeah. That's why. I'm not going to yell at you if you eat meat, don't worry. Just don't smear it all over my face, or clothes. Or...I don't know where I'm going with this.
• Stress takes up a lot of my day. So much so, that my mother sends me aroma-therapy candles. And something called "Blue-Oil" from Aveda that you're supposed to rub on your temples and along the back of your neck. It smells like peppermint and works for about half an hour. It's the though that counts.
• I go through chapstick like nobody's business.
• Preferred pen to write in: Pilot G-2, 0.38 tip. I have a nice fountain pen, too, but I have to buy more ink for it. 
• Currently listening to: The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow.
• Supposed to: be prepping for an oral presentation for my Tutor Training class tomorrow. I'm almost there. I'm breathing, I promise.
• I rewash plastic baggies because it's cheaper than buying new ones. 
• Cleaning, more than anything, calms me down. Besides a good, long run.

That's it for today. I'll leave you with my good side.