My name is Lillian.

I’m 22 years old and I’ve lived in Newark, New Jersey my entire life. I graduated high school in 2004 and should have graduated from college by now, but haven’t because I can’t pick a direction to save my life and a hiatus is better than wasting my parents’ limited money. I have varied interests, but nothing stands out as something I want a career in. So, instead, I have become reclusive and bitter, reading books constantly in an attempt to keep my brain sharp and compensate for lack of a college education. I still intend to finish school someday, but with that being only one of my many worries right now, I’m currently taking on my issues as they come, a step at a time.

Politically, I don’t believe I fit neatly into a certain party. If I were to be perfectly honest, I think that both major parties are simply two sides of the same coin. But for the sake of simplicity, I’ll describe myself as leftist. A leftist with some socialist, and to a small degree, anarchistic values, although I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself any of those. All labels aside, I do keep myself politically and socially informed, and I do vote.

I am not particularly religious. In fact, I’m a lapsed Catholic. I won’t dispute that there might be another plane of existence or a higher power, but I’m not one who has much use for blind faith.

I am biracial, and that in addition to growing up in a melting pot of a city has made me very aware of racial politics. It’s a sensitive topic for me, and not one I will take lightly, as I have little patience for ignorance.

I made this blog to document my thoughts in what I believe is a crucial time in my life, one where I’m still struggling to find myself. I exhibit a lot of bitterness and self-loathing, but lucky for you, I try to do it with more “ha-ha” and less “wah-wah”.

As far as hobbies go, I love:

• reading
• cooking
• gaming (console and PC)
• movies
• comic books
• the Crime Library
• documentaries
• free stuff
• music
• World of Warcraft

Oh and:

• sleeping