I am known as Miriam or Miri or Miricita or Cita or even Gnat (yes, there's a story there!). To summarize myself in a sentence: I am 20 and ready to conquer the world. I want to taste and see and do and be. I want to dance in foreign fields and sing among ancient ruins. I want to learn and travel and attempt and help and explore and meet and create and experience and maybe even fly. There are so many details here in this world around me, and it saddens me that I can never know them all.

I'm a native Ohioan (GO BUCKEYES!!) , born and raised among the cows and cornfields of rural Ohio (Did you know that "ohio" is an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful place?"). I am a student, but I have been sporadic and negligent with my college attendance since I graduated from high school in 1998. I attend classes on and off, but I have not yet declared a major, or even decided what school I plan to stay with. My indecision in my studies and career aspirations is a result of abundant and diverse interests and hobbies. I simply don't know what to do with myself. So many choices, how does one ever decide?

Among my foremost loves lie foreign cultures, languages and linguistics, old books, the Renaissance and surrounding periods of history, fiction and classic literature, fantasy and myth, historical reenactments and stage combat, photography, art, writing, and computers (making these li'l web page thingies).

I have been known to give freely of my time, and have volunteered in several scenarios, including with the Ohio River Valley chapter of American Field Service Intercultural Programs, at Ohio's Center of Science and Industry, with the Columbus Metropolitan Library, and several more.

I also work full-time as a dispatcher/administrative aide for a private security department. I have no intentions of going into criminal justice or related career fields, but this job works splendidly for me for the time being. Working with cops has afforded me an enlightening glimpse of the law enforcement world (it really is amazing what you never knew you never knew), and I work with some really incredible people.

Every now and again, I tend to act like a normal college student (astonishing, huh?). I do enjoy the typical friends and parties and movies and music and adventure (some might call it trouble). I guess what it all comes down to is that I am merely me, one more life, confused and enthused, trying to get wherever it is we ought to go.

And hence you have met some small part of the cluttered brain that is Miricita.