Hello, my name is Quail...

     I've created this on a whim; one which I hope leads me on the right path.  I plan to write a memoir someday and in this day and age, it just isn't practical to write in a journal for that.  I don't exactly want to have to type up every page I've ever written depicting my hopefully long and sometimes interesting life (let's ignore the fact that I do have eight journals full) and so I create this blog with the hopes of taking advantage of the Ctrl+V.  
     I don't want to tell you about myself, at least not in the conventional way.  No one wants to here a long rant about someone's interests, hobbies, and achievements because honestly, not many people care.  So I'm going to do this thing that I learned in writing class.  Every time I post I'll create a list of 5 things you don't know about me.  I'm posting six today though, just because I can.
     1. I hate sleeping.  No, I'm not an insomniac.  No, I don't think it's cool or a good thing that I don't sleep.  I simply don't like it.  It's unproductive and makes me feel useless.  Think of all the things we could do or accomplish if we didn't have to sleep; that's double the time to live it up.  If I were at all scientific my goal would be to discover or create a way for humans to never sleep and still be able to function.
     2. I am not a scientist.  Nor am I a mathematician.  I am an artist and in every sense of the word.  I am a reader, a writer, a jeweler, a ceramist, a painter, a journalist, a photographer...the list goes on and on.  You'll probably hear all about these things later on, my hobbies tend to take over my life.
     3. I spend hours browsing deviantART.  That sight is pure bliss.  Although writing and composition is my first love, photographs do have an amazing ability to capture life and imagination.  I'll be sharing a lot of random photographs.  Just for copyright reasons, unless I explicitly say I took a photograph, assume it's from someone else who I adore and idolize.  

Click here to see the full sized image and the artist's deviantART.

     4. I haven't told anyone.  About this blog, that is.  Not my best friend, nor my boyfriend or anyone else for that matter.  Why, you ask?  I just want to be someone else for once, or maybe I just want to be myself.  
     5. I dislike feet, always have and always will.  If anyone touches my feet I jump about ten feet and yell a whole lot.  If someone touches me with their feet I feel like fainting.  I think the foot phobia is all thanks to my mother who use to kiss my feet and suck on my toes when I was a little girl.  Thanks a lot mom.
     6. I'm going to treat you like a new friend.  Aka I'm not going to tell you about my deepest darkest secrets until I get to know you or really, get comfortable with myself.  Hell, I don't even tell my actual friends my clearest thoughts.  I do tell my boyfriend most things, cliche but true.  And just to throw it in there, I hate how people hate on cliches.  Seriously people?  Cliches are cliches for a reason.  Cliche phrases sum up what we're trying to say too well and cliche situations are just common, nothing wrong with that.     
     Don't worry, I'll post a lot of photos and links in my other posts.  If I didn't, you probably wouldn't keep reading for literature really is unappreciated nowadays.

Sleep sweet,

Quail