Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up...
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid, or am I just stoned?
 

This profile was obscenely out of date, so I decided to update it.  Just so you know, this profile was last fiddled with September 5th, 2002, so if you're reading this and it's like a year after that date...yeah, that means I'm lazy. :P
 
Anyway.  I'm Willow McCall, but you can call me Will, and I'm 16 and in my second year of college. *sigh* I hate when people are just trying to make casual conversation and they go, "how old are you, what school are you in, etc." because it always requires a long involved explanation from me.  So here's the explanation: yes, I did start college when I was fourteen years old.  In Arizona (that happens to be where I live), all one has to do is submit an "Intent to Homeschool" form (even if you don't really homeschool that much and the extent of your homeschooling is your mom going, "Take out the trash, it's part of your homeschooling!", like me), take the test to get into junior college, and then you can start taking classes.  They only let you take a certain number of units until you turn sixteen, but somehow we subverted the system (mwahaha) and they let me take four classes when I was only fifteen, and three the semester before, so...yeah.  What can I say, I'm a fluke of the school system. *shrug* I don't even know how to explain it myself.
 
I was born in San Diego, California, where I lived for the first almost-ten years of my life.  Which would explain my somewhat dislike of beaches (I went there like every month when I was little, and they're feckin COLD) and my tendency to say "dude" way too much. ^-^ Right now I live in Tucson, Arizona, which would explain my...um, extreme patheticness in cold temperatures?  Sure, whatever.  And I lived in Dublin, Ireland for a year, which would explain my tendency to use Dublin talk and call people "feckin' gobshites" on a regular basis...and to also sometimes catch myself pronouncing and spelling things the British way still.  Not really obvious things like "colour" (that still looks very wrong to me), but stuff like "analyse" I still type.  Pronounciation...the most notable examples of those are "inquiry", which I pronounce "IN-kwe-ree"; saying "advertisement" as "ad-VERT-iz-ment" sometimes; saying "obligatory" as "uh-BLIG-eh-tree; "brochure" as "BRA-sher"; and very rarely, "la-BOR-a-tory." ^-^ I was told I had a very slight Irish accent even after I got back to the states, but I don't think I have it anymore, and I wish I still did...

Heritage-wise, I'm about a quarter Danish, an eighth Irish, and the rest...well, nobody knows.  The rest is probably some weird mix of Welsh and British and Scottish and even more Irish and German and random things.  I did one of those "find your family heritage!" searches on my name (not McCall, my _real_ real name) and it said it could be either a Scottish or Swedish name, and since my dad mentioned that his side of the family is from "various places in the British Isles," and if they were from Sweden he would have mentioned that, I guess that means we're Scottish.  That's pretty cool, I think.  So according to the stereotypes, I'm supposed to be a drunkard (the Irish part), a stuffy conservative ethnocentrist (British part), wear a kilt and run around drunkenly playing the bagpipes (Scottish), be not only a drunk, but a _warlike_ drunk (German), and...be a pastry (Danish).  And if you go by the fact that my dad's family comes from Texas, that makes me half-Texan.  Whee-ha.
 
As far as hobbies go...well, one of my obvious ones is...er, website-ing.  And just internet stuff in general.  My dad's work involved computers a lot, so we always _always_ had one around the house, ever since I can remember.  I used to sit on my dad's lap while he did flight simultion games when I was four. ^-^ And where was I when I heard that Jerry Garcia died?  On the computer playing Commander Keen.  So yeah, computers are a pretty big deal in my life...we got the internet when I was nine or so, and that's when I built my first webpage.  It sucked.  I'd like to think I've gotten better since then...I'd show the old page to you so you can judge, but it's too embarrassing.
 
Then when I was...twelve, I think, the year that my sister got married and I started eighth grade, I discovered anime.  That was a HUGE thing in my life for a while, and I still like it, but I'm not as into it as I was back then.  It did get me into seriously writing, though (fanfics and the like), which is a hobby that I still pursue.  I'm working on two or three novels at the moment, one of which I seriously think I have a chance of getting published.  It also got me into drawing, which has been another of my passions over the years.  My goal now is to be an illustrator, and I definitely would not have arrived at that life path if it weren't for anime getting me into drawing seriously four years ago.
 
In terms of personality...the first time I took that Keirsey Personality Test thingy I got INFP, and the most recent time I took the test I was an ENTP...which makes me the only person I know who changed two letters in her score over the course of four years.  Scary, innit?  So what do these letters mean?  Well, let's start with E(xtroverted).  I'm not sure this letter entirely suits me...see, I used to be horrendously shy when I was in 8th grade.  After 8th grade when I went to Ireland, I kind of made a conscious decision to stop being a passive, submissive little wallflower, and it sort of worked.  I think every year I get more outgoing...maybe insecurity is just something that goes away with age. (*crosses fingers* Please...) The N stands for Intuitive, and I guess that fits...I've been told that I'm "psychic" a few times.  T is for thinking, whereas F is for feeling...I think that changes depending on my mood that day, or on the situation, but usually I'm the "thinking" type.  I tend to analyse things to death and worry unnecessarily about stuff, which is something I also hope will go away with age...but I won't kid myself. ^^;; P is for perceiving...um, isn't that kind of like Intuitive? *shrug* Another of my flaws is that I tend to take things too personally, which is probably also linked to the "worrying unnecessarily" part.  But I'm usually a nice person, unless you happen to get on my bad side at the wrong time of the month. ^^;;; Hoooo boy.  When I'm in a bad mood, it's usually best not to piss me off.  But hey, that's just sometimes.  Normally I'm your nice, average human being.  Just...don't tailgate behind me in traffic, all right?  Thank you.
 
For the future...well, I've already gone into this a little bit.  I'd really like to go to the Rhode Island School of Design and major in illustration, but it's a very competitive school so I may end up going somewhere else.  Preferably on the East Coast, and I'd rather not go to California if I can help it...I realized just how much I don't like it there when I went there for a month this summer.  And then of course I eventually want to get married (or CU'ed), have a family, and do all that fun stuff.  I've even decided where I want to retire to: I want to go back to Dublin; there's this penthouse there I've always had my eye on, even when I lived there...

But until then, this is my life.  Will-in-a-nutshell.  And by the way, if you've read this far...I have much respect for you. ^-^ I know not everyone likes to read a long drawn-out account of someone else's life.
 
 
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