2009-09-23T12:04:00.000-04:00

Hello, to the roughly two people reading this. I’ll say it right now, you guys are awesome. Both of you.

I am half of the blog known as the Forlorn Toaster. So far, I am a semi-disenchanted, semi-baffled second-year university student. In other words, I am a random 18-year-old who you will probably never meet, and almost certainly will never care about, and may one day vaguely associate with a toaster. Everything I ever dreamt of as a child. You know, without that fame and fortune bit.

For the purposes of this blog, I shall go by Rat, because rats are seriously cool and underrated animals, and because I’m lazy and enjoy typing short three-letter names.

I’m currently a philosophy major, but honestly, I can’t stand most of my philosophy classes. I have no idea what my blog posts will mostly be about, but I can promise little to none of them will examine the philosophical teachings of long-dead philosophers, mostly due to the fact that I’m thinking mainly about pizza and Tetris during roughly 34% of my lectures.

To all future readers: Welcome, and enjoy.

Hey, I’m the second half of the Forlorn Toasters (heh, sounds like an 80s garage band). I’m generally known around the internet as Hetshepsit, after the female Pharaoh. I’m not the best at blog writing, having about half a dozen half-written blogs, but with a swift kick in the ass and a page-long rant about something I’m passionate about can help. I suppose.

If you want a brief rundown of the topics I’m likely to cover, there they are: abortion and women’s rights, the rise of the religious right, the effects of monotheism, and homosexual marriage and adoption.

Yeah, pretty straight-forward.

A bit more about me, I’m almost 19 and just finished high school. I’m off school for 6 months, before going to beauty school for makeup artistry. Classical education wasn’t in my future. Though I would have liked to go to university, I didn’t outgrow “angsty passive-aggressive teenager” quick enough. But, makeup is a passion of mine, so I’m really excited to get into freelance, and even working for a company like MAC (my favourite!). Eventually, I’d like to launch a makeup line called Drama Llama, with a llama for my logo (think Emperor Kuzco in drag as a llama from The Emperor’s New Groove).

Yeah, not much else to say, really

The Forlorn Toaster