Essential facts:

Full name: Kristin Bethany T_________

Date of Birth: 13.8.80

Siblings: Laura, 22; Jenna, 15; David, 13

Residence: Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Major: Psychology

Minor: Either Computer Science or Women's and Gender Studies

Ancestry: Danish, Norwegian, German (amazingly, I'm not blond and blue-eyed)

Languages: English, German, HTML, Scheme, C++

Personality: Type A, desperately trying to be Type B. Also, I think I'm an "INFP", but I also have a history of being able to unconsciously manipulate personality tests to make the results fit with my current self-perceptions.

Coffee with: more sugar than most, soy milk when available

Random facts:

Despite being a frugal student and moving twice or thrice a year, I cannot resist buying books.

I own 10 coffee mugs. I live by myself. You do the math.

I know how to knit, albeit very badly.

I crashed my junior prom.

I'm an atheist.

I skipped a grade when I was 8.

I have more cats than I do siblings.

I am inclined to think that most things we take for granted are societal constructions.

I work around them, anyway.

I've been vegan (no meat, fish, milk, eggs, etc.) for three years.

I have the somewhat bizarre talent for remembering everyone's names, whether or not they know me.

I am exceedingly competetive at Scrabble.

A large proportion of my belongings are blue.

I sleep on my side.

I posess an uncanny store of useless knowledge.

I can tell you who manufactures conversation hearts off the top of my head.

I remember my best friend's phone number from 2nd grade, and my address in Kindergarten.

I am fond of music ranging from classical to punk to hip-hop to jazz to 80s glam rock and back.

I've actually read Anna Karenina.

I hold no strong loyalties to either Windows or Macintosh operating systems.

Even though I'm in my second year of college, I still retain the belief that I can "change the world".