Now let's start with some quick facts about me. As you may have guessed, lenihanfighter is not my real name.
But it is the screenname I use just about everywhere. If you see 'Lenihan', there's a 85% it's me (there are some people who like to use 'lenihan' as well), and if you see 'lenihanfighter', there's about 99% it's me. I can't say 100%, because you never know, there could be someone using that name as well.I'm a girl (woman?) of almost 24 years old, I live and study in Maastricht (the Netherlands) and I'm a third-year student Japanese.
I hope to graduate next year and then be off to work, though I have no clue yet what kind of work I want to do. Or can do. My hobbies/interests include quite a few things, such as writing, cross stitching/embroidery (I currently picked up a lovely book about ribbon embroidery and I can't wait to start on that), cooking, roleplaying, sewing, reading, languages and cultures, fantasy, swords... I've also done quite a bit of walking when I was younger, and I've decided to pick up that hobby again, where I want to try to walk in one year 500km. That, of course, spread out throughout the year.
And I hope to start on yoga soon, for some extra weekly exercise. Now back to my name... maybe some of you are wondering where I got my name from. Well, when I was sixteen years old, I did Irish dancing. Unfortunately, though, my teacher came from America and after one fun year, she returned back to America, which meant I couldn't continue dancing.
But at the final lesson, she gave us all a keychain, on which stood 'The Lenihan School of Irish Dance', and I loved the sound of 'lenihan'. So I had to do something with it, right? That's when I created 'the Order of Lenihanfighters', a group of people that would fight against the evil and supernatural beings, and... that's where I got my name. Later I found out that 'lenihan' was Gaelic (though I can never remember whether it was Irish or Scottish) and could either mean 'sorrowful' or 'hidden'. Since the 'sorrowful fighters' didn't sound impressive, I went for 'hidden fighters'. So that's what my name means and where I got it from. As a quick side note: I'd prefer to be called either lenihanfighter, lenihan or just Vreni (which is my real name), but please, please, please... don't abbreviate it to Leni? My grandmother is called Lenie, so whenever someone uses Leni, well... It feels like they mistake me for my grandmother. Which isn't very flattering. ^^;;
Anyway, back to a little more about me... I'm not exactly the most forward person. I wouldn't exactly call myself shy or very closed-off, but it's hard for me to just start talking to someone and make friends. So here actually kind of my plea: please be friends with me? ._.; Aside for two of you, you are already my friends. (And you know who you are.
) I think I have a tendency to be a little weird (meaning not quite like most people) and I'm okay with it. I love it. ^^ I've had an interest in esoteric subjects since I was about... fourteen, I think? Maybe it was an age-thing, but I had this feeling that I was a bit lost in this life and felt that there had to be more in life than this somewhat cold and cynical world accepts. I had the feeling that there had to be things in life that could not be explained through science. And maybe from that came the childish wish that I wanted to do magic, just like how they did it on TV. But as childish as that wish may be, it led me to my first book about magic and to my surprise, I found a whole section with books dedicated to the more mysterious things in life. Unfortunately, I've somehow never found the time (or maybe even not the courage) to do anything with this interest of mine, so when Melanie asked if I would be interested in following a course on Elfpath, I thought 'Why not?' I'd read the flyer, I know I found that very interesting and that it certainly got my attention.
So here I am.
Waiting for the new introductory course to begin. And if you made it all from the top to here (and read it all), then you are amazing and you've deserved a cookie. *places a basket of cookies here* If there is something else you want to know about me, feel free to ask. ^^
but otherwise good... not familiar with J-drama. And fantasy and roleplaying too! Though most of the roleplaying where I've actually roleplayed instead of hack'n'slash, or well, in my case spell-slinging (D+D ha!) is text based (forums or IM).
I think we'll get along just fine. ;D
