When You're Not A Mer....

[Elle]

My name is Elle. I'm 24 and a nursing student. I live with my fiance and his son, who I've spent the last 4 years being mum to (he's 5).
I like making things; sculptures, food (particularly chocolaty treats) and costumes. Most have been zombie related, with some vampire and x-men thrown into the mix.
I'm addicted to my Xbox

[Mermaid Margarete]

Wow! This has certainly been an entertaining thread to read!

When I'm not a mermaid I'm a 25 y/o human named Jina - tho if you were in my 8th grade math class you'd probably know me by Cheater (cause a fellow-stupid-student thought I was cheating by checking my work with the answers in the back... you know... like you're supposed to do?) OR if you were in my 7th grade health class Va-jina... yeah... that happened.

I work a 9-6 day job that I have cause unfortunately I need a day job. I moved around a few times as a toddler but my parents have lived in the same house now for 21 years. With the intent of becoming an orthodontist I went to a local college at the age of 16, got my Associates of Science (Physics and Chemistry) and then moved to Hawaii to get my Bach. of Arts (Majoring in Hawaiian Culture) and instead of going to dental school after that I "ran away" to Australia to be with a boy I met on the Internet.

That lasted for 2 years. Moved back in with my parents (moving countries -twice- is expensive and starting your life over twice is even more exhausting...) I've had a large number of jobs - if I were to use my entire resume when applying for jobs I'd never get hired cause I usually only work for a place for about 6 months XD I get bored and I hate it when I'm not challenged. Monotony is the bane of existence. My two favorite jobs so far have been being a kitchen designer and a paintball referee (I worked both at the same time while living in Australia =D). I also really enjoy being a promo model - which leads us to hobbies.

In my spare time I do ballet, swim, model, gogo dance, cosplay and go on crazy, fun adventures (One of my friends has nicknamed me "Jina Amazon Queen of Adventure"). This year alone I've gone zip lining, running around in a zorb ball, created 7 costumes, attended two large conventions, crashed a million dollar party and tried out rope suspension! I've shot with 30 + photographers and have been in like 15 runways. My biggest accomplishment is being on a bus ad!! Tho I just very recently decided I needed to separate my model life from my personal life and created a facebook page. Before all my modeling pictures were on my personal page... so I have like 3k tagged photos of me XD

I've been single for the past year and a half cause I'm just done dating boys. I've had my heart broken one too many times and I'm super jaded and just need my prince to come along and sweep me off my feet cause otherwise he doesn't have a prayer XD

[Mermaid Margarete]

Oh yes - I also like to write XD

[MermaidBrittany]

Hey My names Brittany and I am a Senior in high school. I play the french horn in my high school band and take AP classes. I am also really involved with my community and participate in two different Relays for life, one of which I am captain (my grandmother died of pancreatic cancer). I have been in Camp Fire since I was in kindergarten (if anyone knows what that is! ( I Love reading, although I dont seem to have enough time for it anymore :/ I also travel a lot since my family gets free flights, I am so lucky!

Next year I would love to get into WWU and start down the path of Majoring in Marine Biology!

[Mermaid Kiba]

Prepare yourselves for a long post!

My parents named me Kimberly, my sister named me Kiba, and I'm 31. I live in Durham, NC, USA.

I've been a singer my whole life but only actually started taking lessons in the past couple of years. When I was in high school, I did a lot of community theatre and some school shows. Now I only do 2 shows a year usually (one Gilbert & Sullivan operetta and one straight play) but I'm on the boards of the producing organizations.

I went to college at UNC-Chapel Hill and majored in Classics (Latin) and Dramatic Art, then got a Master of Arts in Teaching and was a Latin teacher for 5 years. Then I went back to school (UNC again) to become a school librarian. While I was in library school I worked for LEARN NC, a website/network for teachers that the UNC School of Education sponsors. I was a school librarian at two middle schools for a year, but when my supervisor at LEARN NC took a job in the university library, I applied for her job at LEARN NC and got it, so now I'm the managing editor of LEARN NC.

Cross-stitch is my first crafty love, but I also enjoy crochet and have dabbled in quite a few others, including freezer paper stencils and making polymer clay horns.

I enjoy playing video games, especially RPGs like the Final Fantasy series, as well as puzzle games. I like watching other people play Survival Horror games but they're too intense for me to play much.

My favorite thing ever is probably The Phantom of the Opera. But I'm also immensely enamored of the works of Joss Whedon, especially Buffy, Angel, and Firefly. In May of 2000 I started posting at the official Buffy posting board (it was closed down in 2002 when the show moved from the WB to UPN). I got to go to 3 big parties in LA for posting board members, and that posting board (called The Bronze) is where I made some of my closest friends in the whole world. Emotionally. Not geographically as much. I started the big campaign to save Firefly (it was called Firefly: Immediate Assistance), which actually burned me out on fandom for a while because that was exhausting and while we did get the Serenity movie, I don't really feel like that came about because of our campaign. In any case, Whedon fandom is my heart's true home in many ways - but I'm so excited to be here among the mermaids!

[SireiaStrange]

Indialanta, that's amazing! I absolutely adore The Phantom of the Opera as well (book, musical, story, everything), and I'm also a diehard Browncoat. Lovely to meet the lady who started the Firefly campaign, and kudos

Funnily enough, outside of feeling like a mermaid, I am a circus & fire performer, as well as an event photographer!

[Mermaid Caspiana]

I am a student just finishing middle school and planning for high school. I am also a writer writing my first book. I am a jewelry maker and working on making my businesses as a mermaid performer, tail designer (drawings), and accessory maker. I play volleyball and occasionally soccer. And I am running my last year of track this year, because next year i am going to swimming. I love reading, writing, swimming, gardening, biking, fishing, and basically anything outdoors, including the zoo, camping, and the beach which i love but hate the year long wait in between each visit, but i guess that is what makes it special. I also am an artist in my free time, along with doing stuff with my friends and family. I am scheduled for all honors next year and 2 classes for the grade level up. In my future i plan on marine biology.

[Mermaid Caspiana]

I forgot to mention i am very into musicals like phantom of the opera, les miz, cats, and greece. I plan on being in our school drama program, and am currently in our chamber ensamble, and advanced choir that goes to competitions. Love singing and dancing as well.

[SeaGlass Siren]

I forgot to mention i am very into musicals like phantom of the opera, les miz, cats, and greece. I plan on being in our school drama program, and am currently in our chamber ensamble, and advanced choir that goes to competitions. Love singing and dancing as well.

THE PHANTOMMMMMMM!!!!!

*cough*

While i am not a mermaid, i also fangirl over the Phantom of the Opera (read the phantom, see many movies and versions of phantom of the opera, watch andrew lloyd webber's musical verison of Phantom, watch shows inspired by the phantom....) I am a theatre girl by heart and i love to see stage productions and compare movies to stage productions.. also comparing books and movies to each other.. and movie remakes to original movies.. and children's stories with new movies.. (like hansel and gretel, and jack the giant slayer... and alice in wonderland.. )

I am a sucker for fashion and modeling.. it is my guilty pleasure.

i also love me a little music. ... showtunes, metal, oldschool r&b, oldschool rap, classic disney soundtracks...

I do some art in my spare time. designing.. currently drawing up a theoretical dream house for a friend of mine.

I do very little cooking... i only like making finger food and breakfasts :P

I work in an office right now doing administrative tasks like billing, warehouse inventory, accounting... but really thats just fancy lingo for "secretary" :P

I watch a lot of crime shows.. CSI (currently stopped, but i watch old reruns of csi las vegas), Mystery Detectives, Murder by the book...
currently reading assassin's creed novels since i can't play the videogame due to motion sickness

AAND thats about it :P

[SeaGlass Siren]

THE PHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTOM OF THE OPERAAAA!!!

[Rain]

THE PHANTOMMMMMMM!!!!!

*cough*

While i am not a mermaid, i also fangirl over the Phantom of the Opera (read the phantom, see many movies and versions of phantom of the opera, watch andrew lloyd webber's musical verison of Phantom, watch shows inspired by the phantom....) I am a theatre girl by heart and i love to see stage productions and compare movies to stage productions.. also comparing books and movies to each other.. and movie remakes to original movies.. and children's stories with new movies.. (like hansel and gretel, and jack the giant slayer... and alice in wonderland.. )

I am a sucker for fashion and modeling.. it is my guilty pleasure.

i also love me a little music. ... showtunes, metal, oldschool r&b, oldschool rap, classic disney soundtracks...

I do some art in my spare time. designing.. currently drawing up a theoretical dream house for a friend of mine.

I do very little cooking... i only like making finger food and breakfasts :P

I work in an office right now doing administrative tasks like billing, warehouse inventory, accounting... but really thats just fancy lingo for "secretary" :P

I watch a lot of crime shows.. CSI (currently stopped, but i watch old reruns of csi las vegas), Mystery Detectives, Murder by the book...
currently reading assassin's creed novels since i can't play the videogame due to motion sickness

AAND thats about it :P

I'm guessing you'd like the sequel Andrew made to the Phantom of the Opera. It's called Love Never Dies.

[SeaGlass Siren]

No. I HATED that sequel. I SPURN IT LIKE I WOULD SPURN A RABID BULLSHARK.

[SeaGlass Siren]

One, Erik is not that stupid to allow Meg Giry to whore herself, especially when in the novel he took care of her and her mother. (Refering to the books. this sequel is supposed to be inspired by Phantom of Manhattan... which is f---ing random?? and is also a fanfic sequel to original book version of POTO where he gives money to support her and her mother.)

I PERSONALLY THINK HE SHOULD DONE A PREQUEL (when Erik was just a wee boy and becoming a man) INSTEAD OF A SEQUEL (when somehow christine finds the time to have sex with him and have his kid the night of her wedding.)

I love the cast, no problems with the acting or the singing. i love how it used snippets of the old phantom musical..

I hated the lyrics and script... it just seems forced and repetitive.

Also, the song "love never dies" was supposed to be used for another musical that got scrapped. :| k i'm done ranting ;__;

[Mermaid Caspiana]

THE PHANTOMMMMMMM!!!!!

*cough*

While i am not a mermaid, i also fangirl over the Phantom of the Opera (read the phantom, see many movies and versions of phantom of the opera, watch andrew lloyd webber's musical verison of Phantom, watch shows inspired by the phantom....) I am a theatre girl by heart and i love to see stage productions and compare movies to stage productions.. also comparing books and movies to each other.. and movie remakes to original movies.. and children's stories with new movies.. (like hansel and gretel, and jack the giant slayer... and alice in wonderland.. )

I am a sucker for fashion and modeling.. it is my guilty pleasure.

i also love me a little music. ... showtunes, metal, oldschool r&b, oldschool rap, classic disney soundtracks...

I do some art in my spare time. designing.. currently drawing up a theoretical dream house for a friend of mine.

I do very little cooking... i only like making finger food and breakfasts :P

I work in an office right now doing administrative tasks like billing, warehouse inventory, accounting... but really thats just fancy lingo for "secretary" :P

I watch a lot of crime shows.. CSI (currently stopped, but i watch old reruns of csi las vegas), Mystery Detectives, Murder by the book...
currently reading assassin's creed novels since i can't play the videogame due to motion sickness

AAND thats about it :P

Nice. You'd probably like Castle then. on abc.

[Traveling Merman]

You'll all hate me for this but phantom is musically the most boring musical! Lloyd webber stole half of the music from classical composers he didn't even rework them he just copy and pasted,
the music he actually wrote is so boring and safe it's laughable hence why when he wrote love never dies (paint never dries) it fell on its arse! As it was all his on work! And wasn't saves by other music that he's pilfered and borrowed.

Come on guys lets celebrate a REAL composer who's actually talented! Like Andrew Lippa, William Finn, Stephen Sondheim, Stiles and Drew, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Scott Alan, and many more! there's loads out there to pick from, and write music that's actually original, creative and strays from the easy listening pop norm chords of C F & G!

Anyway to end on an analogy; I can lead you to water, but I can't make you drink!

Peace. Love. Dinosaurs.

[SeaGlass Siren]

eh i cant say about his other works lol. i'm staying in my phantom bubble :P

[SeaGlass Siren]

Nice. You'd probably like Castle then. on abc.

i kinda want to watch 'Bones' and 'the following' too ;__;

[MermaidBrittany]

Oh LOVE Phantom! We did that at my High School for my sophomore year, and I was in the pit so I got to see it 20+ times! Ahh it was amazing! We had such talented performers :P

[dandy113]

I'm seeing a lot of PoTO posts so...

My name is Ashley, I'm a high school senior who's being weighted down by the too-many-APs-she-not-so-wisely-decided-to-take. I currently live in Northern California by the Bay Area. I'm not very active in my community, although my mom is, but I have participated in several local events and I do volunteer from time to time(Relay for Life, local theater productions, movie premiers, concerts, food banks). I plan on going to college near the Great Lakes to study (dun dun dun) FINANCE (or something related to stats maybe)! I'm not very confident in my science or math skills, but here I am, looking to do more math. I struggled in it all throughout middle school although I was in a GATE class for math in elementary school.

I've taken 6 years of art, 5 years of piano, and 6 years of guitar, but I have no interest in pursuing a "creative" career (it's fun, but it's just not for me). I obviously like mermaids (and mythology, huge mythology geek here), but I'm scared of deep water. Despite that I've also done several years of swimming, but I quit because of that fear of deep water.

I'm also a huge PoTO fan (although the movie kind of fell flat for me, because SERIOUSLY, GERARD BUTLER CANNOT SING), and let me just say THAT SEQUEL SUCKED BUTT. ALKJFLAKSFJLASFKJ WE DO NOT MENTION THE SEQUEL.

[Coradion]

When I'm not a mer, I'm a marine biologist at UH Manoa and model for AnF and its affiliates as well as whoever my agency happens to book me with.