About

Hi, I’m Donna. I’m in my early-mid twenties and was born on April Fools’ Day. I was supposed to be a boy. Clearly, this was the best April Fools’ joke anyone has ever played. If you can beat that, let me know.

Visual evidence of eternal nerdiness.

I’m from Seattle, Washington, but currently live in a town in northern Washington, near the U.S.-Canadian border. It’s supposedly officially called Bellingham, but I refuse to call it anything but The Ham. True story: Some people in the Ham call themselves, wait for it…Bellinghamsters. More adorable thing in the world, am I right?

I attract crazy people and creepers, somehow. This might be directly related to how much time I spend on and waiting for buses due to the fact that I never learned how to drive, though crazy seems to find me outside of public transportation as well. Sometimes I wish my life were more boring.

As the visual evidence presented to the left suggests, I’ve pretty much been a nerd since birth. I don’t understand people who don’t get excited about stuff they like. I get perhaps excessively enthusiastic about things I love.

For example, I love languages. If I could, I would learn every language on the planet. At the moment, in school, I’m working on Spanish and French, as well as privately working on Italian in my spare time. Once I have more advanced skills in those three romance languages, I’d love to move onto other languages.

I love books and reading and learning more than most things in life. I took quite a long break from college. Perhaps one of my biggest mistakes, but honestly not one I’d change because I probably wouldn’t have met several of my best friends in the world had I not taken that break. After I finally graduate from my bachelor’s program, my current plan is to go into a Master’s in Teaching program. Most likely I’ll be specializing in elementary education because something about teaching several hundred high school students terrifies me. Sometimes it feels like there are a lot of bullets flying around in a profession where they don’t arm you. Also, kids in elementary school are often so excited about learning and I rather love it.

Puppy!

Though they still live in Seattle with my parents, I have two dogs that provide me endless amusement. I also have a cat who’s a bit of a douchebag. :( Don’t get me wrong: I love kitties (my tumblr proves this) and I still love my cat. He just happens to be evil. He likes to: terrorize my gigantic dogs, chase squirrels, find any stack of papers and lay on them, leave dead mice in places where we might step on them, attempt to consume our souls while we sleep, knock anything and everything off any possible surface, and scratch your ankles off directly after you feed him. He has enough patience to wait and catch moles, but not enough patience to catch a mouse that doesn’t move enough to be interesting to him.

About Donut.nu

For years I used to run many sites. When I was younger I had many different personal sites. They changed often—names, layouts, hosts, content—likely because I was growing up and so much was changing with me. Then, during a few particularly hard years, I got out of the website game. Donut.nu was created during my rebuilding phase. Then during another difficult year or so, I went primarily to tumblr, but now that I’ve finally gotten off my ass, redesigned the site, and started doing stuff worth writing about, I’m back at donut.nu.

Why donut.nu? Well, my first name is Donna and my friend Patricia calls me Donut due to the fact that in Venezuela, dona means doughnut. There’s also a slight Veronica Mars reference in there.

Oddly enough, I actually loathe most doughnuts. Except for those powdered ones. Those are delicious.

Credits

Most importantly, the amazing Molly drew the T. rex eating a donut who chillaxes at the bottom of each page (also known as the Donnasaurus Rex). You can also find her at her awesome My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic tumblr.