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Welcome => Introductions => Topic started by: shark_carter on September 10, 2012, 01:44:30 PM
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Hi guys! I'm new to the forum and returning to AC.
Back when I used to frequent the site though this forum didn't exist so this is pretty awesome and looks like it'll be a lot of fun! :)
My name is Sheena, I'm 28 years old (yikes!) I was born and raised in a town outside of Dayton, Ohio called Beavercreek. When I was 20 I moved to Kingston, Ontario to attend Queen's University where I got my BAH in Sociology. I met my then boyfriend, now husband, during school and never left!
Now I sell cell phones. You know what they say, what do you do with an BAH in sociology? LOL (anyone who likes Avenue Q will get that one!)
Though I do feel like sometimes the human social experiences that I witness while working retail is a bit like a field study, so I pretend that it's all just research.
I was into fanfic a long time ago but school took over my life around the same time that BSB dropped off the planet for a while and I dropped off with them fandom-wise. Now that I'm done with school and have a bit more free time I want to get back into it and I'm working on writing a few things as well as reading many others!
My favourite BSB is Nick, my favourite writers are Pengi and Karah, I like pepperoni pizza and long walks on the beach... LOL
I'm on Twitter now, too! I'd always gone and checked BSB's and Nick's twitter page but I didn't have one of my own to follow on because I didn't think I would have much use for it. I decided though that I would get more "connected" and started one up! My username on there is also shark_carter. Yes, I know, I stole Nick's instagram username but I thought it was SO CUTE so when I was trying to think of a username I decided to pay homage to him LOL SO.... FOLLOW ME! haha
This is long so I'm going to stop now. :) HI AGAIN!
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Welcome Sheena, I'm Steph from the UK :)
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Welcome to the forum, Sheena! :)
It's always nice when people come back after a long hiatus!
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Welcome Sheena, I'm Steph from the UK :)
Hi Steph! Nice to meet you! :D
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Welcome to the forum, Sheena! :)
It's always nice when people come back after a long hiatus!
Thanks! It's nice to be back. Things have changed a bit but not so much that I don't remember what to do lol
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That's always a good thing lol kind of like riding a bike, right?
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Welcome Sheena! I'm Steph too haha but people call me Saka-Steph to differentiate :) What kind of fics do you like to write?
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That's always a good thing lol kind of like riding a bike, right?
Haha it's funny you say that because I always tell people that I wish riding a bike was like riding a bike - I need training wheels, I swear! :P
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Welcome Sheena! I'm Steph too haha but people call me Saka-Steph to differentiate :) What kind of fics do you like to write?
Lots of Stephs to keep straight! haha I'm a big romance fan and always have been. There's just something about a really sweet love story that appeals to me. I can take or leave the smutty side of fanfic, I accept that it makes a lot of romance stuff realistic but for me it's the relationship that is the real story.
In my own fics that I write it's romance but it's pretty PG-13 compared to a lot of stuff out there! I like the human interest side of relationships. .. I guess that's why I took sociology in school! :)
How about you??
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Hi Sheena I'm Purpura or Lore I'll answer to either. I got your Avenue Q reference cause I saw it on Saturday!!! LOL
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Yeah, I definitely feel the same way about romance! I love the raw emotional part of it and really like to dig into the characters. It's my favorite genre and I usually write about Nick. Tried writing an AJ romance once, couldn't get into it at all lol. I also like writing really true to life stuff based on events that really happened to the boys with a bit of a fictional twist.
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Welcome Sheena! I'm really glad you're not a Nick poser. I was a little concerned when I saw your username LOL.
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Hello, Sheena. I am Ritz from the Philippines but currently in Dubai with my husband. Welcome back to AC! :)
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Hey Sheena, since you were around a long time ago, back in the day what was your pen name and some of the stories you have written? I bet a few of us have read them.
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Hi Sheena I'm Purpura or Lore I'll answer to either. I got your Avenue Q reference cause I saw it on Saturday!!! LOL
Isn't it awesome!!?? I've seen it once and immediately went and bought the soundtrack because it's so funny!
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Hello, Sheena. I am Ritz from the Philippines but currently in Dubai with my husband. Welcome back to AC! :)
Ooh Dubai! That must be cool. Do you like it there?
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Hey Sheena, since you were around a long time ago, back in the day what was your pen name and some of the stories you have written? I bet a few of us have read them.
Oh my gosh what a through back! Haha
This may be dating myself but back when I used to frequent AC there wasn't a lot of people signed up, it was mostly Chaos posting Ground Zero, which is what first brought me to the site back in "the day". There were a few others posting but everyone seemed to have their own sites going on.
I was hosted on a site run by my friend Jennifer, we started it in 99 or 00 or so and it was on one of those Angelfire pages where it was like angelfire.com/Hollywood/SunsetStrip/6555/Index with the longest and most confusing address ever! Haha
I think it was called Fan Fiction Isle or Tropical Island Fan Fiction. We cowrote this story that was about gangs and all the different gangs were different boybands like 5ive was in it and Boyzone, all these British boybands we liked as well as BSB and NSync. Terrible! That was one of the ones I read recently - some of it was handwritten on scraps of binder paper! Haha
I also wrote this story called Quit Playing Games with My Mind and I guess I was foreshadowing because it was about Nick getting addicted to drugs. But in the end it was all Brian's dream that he'd had after getting hit by a car.
Seriously, I don't know how I came up with these things. I probably should have spent more time doing homework! :D
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Isn't it awesome!!?? I've seen it once and immediately went and bought the soundtrack because it's so funny!
it is, my friend brought me the songs ... I am working on convincing my hubby and friend to go with me again. :)
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Hi Sheena! Sociology huh? I'm studying that and Psychology. What were you originally looking to get a career in? I've been focusing on marriage and family studies mostly when it comes to soc. I find the research in that to be pretty interesting. What about you?
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Ooh Dubai! That must be cool. Do you like it there?
Dubai is amazing, but I'd rather be home in the Philippines with my kids. Dubai is the kind of place you will enjoy going to for a vacation, but can't imagine myself getting settled here.
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Hi Sheena! Sociology huh? I'm studying that and Psychology. What were you originally looking to get a career in? I've been focusing on marriage and family studies mostly when it comes to soc. I find the research in that to be pretty interesting. What about you?
Hey! That's so cool that you're sort of following the same path. It took me a long time finish my degree because I couldn't quite settle on what I wanted. (I'm one of those people! Haha)
I tried going down the psychology path but I failed the same damn statistics course three times before deciding to give up the fight! I really feel like the professor had a lot to do with it though because I had no other problems with statistics once I switched majors.
I focused on community health and aging populations so ideally I'd like to work for the government developing policies/strategies for health care promotion. :)
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Dubai is amazing, but I'd rather be home in the Philippines with my kids. Dubai is the kind of place you will enjoy going to for a vacation, but can't imagine myself getting settled here.
AWW that sucks that your kids aren't there with you :(
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Hey! That's so cool that you're sort of following the same path. It took me a long time finish my degree because I couldn't quite settle on what I wanted. (I'm one of those people! Haha)
I tried going down the psychology path but I failed the same damn statistics course three times before deciding to give up the fight! I really feel like the professor had a lot to do with it though because I had no other problems with statistics once I switched majors.
I focused on community health and aging populations so ideally I'd like to work for the government developing policies/strategies for health care promotion. :)
I hated statistics. Though if I remember right, it's the same course for either major. I know when I took it, it had the label of Psych 231 and Soc 231. And that there were plenty of people for both majors in the class. Funny how when you switched majors the same course seemed easier LOL.
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I hated statistics. Though if I remember right, it's the same course for either major. I know when I took it, it had the label of Psych 231 and Soc 231. And that there were plenty of people for both majors in the class. Funny how when you switched majors the same course seemed easier LOL.
Oh geez, thanking my lucky stars I didn’t go to your school or I would have been in trouble! haha They were two separate courses for me. The one I struggled with was a Psyc 202 stats course with lecture and lab. When I changed my whole schedule around I took Socy 211. It’s a less intense, half credit course with lecture and no lab and I took a half credit Research Methods course too. The Psyc course is an exemption, you can’t use it towards a Soc degree and vice versa. I really think the facilitator played a huge part in how I finally “got it”, too. Maybe it's cliche but teachers really do make the difference!
It’s interesting to see how each school differs in offering the same degrees -- especially cross border! It’s a wonder that everyone ends up knowing the same things. :D
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I hated statistics. Though if I remember right, it's the same course for either major. I know when I took it, it had the label of Psych 231 and Soc 231. And that there were plenty of people for both majors in the class. Funny how when you switched majors the same course seemed easier LOL.
Statistics!! I LOVED statistics! the class was so easy and such a cake class for me...... but I guess it would be for a math major *whistles*
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Statistics!! I LOVED statistics! the class was so easy and such a cake class for me...... but I guess it would be for a math major *whistles*
You can have it! Haha
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I was good at stats, but I hate math lol. That's why I'm surprised it's different classes for you, because that's all it is essentially, a math class. My prof used to say it didn't matter your major because the formulas and methods of running the data were the same either way LOL.
Very evil subject.
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My stats class was awesome because of the approach my teacher had though. He very much thought that memorizing formulas was stupid. In the real world if you needed a formula you would look it up. Our quizzes were open book/note and our tests were open note (one page of notes and you'd be shocked how much ppl shoved on a page that wasn't necessary). All questions were taken from homework with numbers changed so if you did the homework you would pass the quiz, since we could use the homework on the quiz. If you did the homework and didn't understand something it was up to you to ask or not pass the quizzes/tests.
It was a relief to have a teacher like that when all my other math teachers were having me memorize formulas.
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Well yeah if I hadn't been forced to memorize formulas for shit like T-scores I wouldn't have hated it so much LOL.