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My name is Paige and I am cringeworthy.  I’ve lived for a little more than nineteen years and I am a second-year French major at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.  Richmond is awesomely photogenic.  I’m not.  On my off-time, I spend time with my family in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, which is also awesomely photogenic, but only if you are an outsider or if you are quite patient.

I love reading, writing, trying to cook when I have vegan hunger, taking super-amateur (a class reserved just for me) photos with my Diana+ Dreamer, cuddling or just cooly hanging out with cats, walking all over the place, exploring, smiling at strangers, film scouting, listening to cicadas, pretending I am secretly in love with my peers, existing as a naked person, and touching plants.  But I like reading the most.  My favourite book is either Everything Is Illuminated or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.  The latter is my life story, actually.  Either way, whichever book either you or I choose, my favourite author is Jonathan Safran Foer, no competition.  My favourite movie is Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain, followed really closely by Synecdoche New York and Heima.  On any given day, I guess you can say the three are tied for first, but if it counts for anything, Synecdoche New York is the movie I’ve cried hardest at, ever.  I cried even harder at that than I did at The Lion King when Mufasa dies.  Just so you can gauge this, I cry pretty hard when Mufasa dies.  Every time.  Even when he dies in Spanish.  Then I just cry in Spanish.

On a bad day, I look like I’m a half a decade younger than I actually am.  On a good day, I look almost-legal, like 17.5 years old.  My friend, Travis, says that if I were an animal, I would be a three-toed sloth.  My friend, Virginia, says that if I were an animal, I would be a rabbit.  These are both equally accurate evaluations, but I would like to think that I am un lapin.

I hate it when people say that they are bored.  Bored = boring.  Make your own fun.

I also hate chewing gum even though I chew it whenever it’s offered.  And the fact that so many people are disturbed by body hair.

If you have the balls to shoot me a Friend Request via Facebook, MySpace, Last.fm, or Livejournal, then I will readily accept your request as long as you do not want to cybersex me via webcam.  I need all the friends I can get.  Don’t worry.  I’m no MySpace/Facebook/Last.fm/Livejournal whore.  I was just trying to reference Camera Obscura.