Hello! My name is Tamisa, and I’m a 21 year old college student who resides in Texas. I am a science nerd, a web design enthusiast, an amateur photographer, a bibliophile, an avid music listener, and a romantic at heart. I spend most of my time between the cities of Austin and Houston as a native Houston resident and an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin double majoring in Neurobiology and Psychology. Interestingly (or not so interestingly) enough, I’ve decided to cultivate my interest in the sciences and pursue a career in medicine: since I am graduating in 2011, I hope to have an acceptance in hand by next year.

• Likes: Asian dramas, dinosaurs, eating, music, pandas, photography, reading, taking really long naps, webdesign
• Dislikes: calculus, Internet-freaking-Explorer, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber…
• Favorite Bands/Artists: Muse (x infinity!!), A Fine Frenzy, Coldplay, Jimmy Eat World, Imogen Heap, Joshua Radin, Lovedrug, Mae, The Perishers….and the Backstreet Boys :)
• Current Celebrity Crushes: Taeyang, Jung Jinwoon, Nichkhun (sucked into the world of K-pop much?)

Blogging & Monologu.es

I’m no novice to blogging — I have a history of starting too many journals and not knowing what to do with them. You could say I have journal-ADD. My hopes is that this blog is one of the few Xanga, Tabulas, Vox, Livejournal, Lostjournal, Deadjournal, Greatestjournal, Livejourbal, and who-knows-what-else-journal blogs that I actually habitually update.

My fascination with blogging and web design started early: I was first introduced to the concept of an actual weblog (compared to, say a diary) by chance and was amazed by it. I first started blogging on Geocities in sixth grade, manually updating my blog with entries and using Haloscan for comments. (Oh, the good old days!) HTML and CSS seemed to provide endless possibilities on the internet, and I was eager to learn all about it. Fast forward several years later, and here I am — older, arguably un-wiser, and still trying to comprehend the opportunities that the internet affords.

I mostly developed my web design “skills” while building fansites to fictional characters of interest. Recently, however, I began desiring a more personal space on the internet — monologu.es was then born. The name comes from a combination of two things: what I’ve been calling my public blog for a few years now — Monologuing — and my amusement at domain names that actually spell words out.

Colophon

Monologu.es was purchased in spring 2010 through GoDaddy, is currently hosted by DreamHost, and is powered by the all-mighty WordPress. I currently use the following plugins:

• Akismet — your handy dandy spam comment detection service
• Audio Player — pretty and seamless audio streaming
• Clean Archives Reloaded — a fancy way to display your archived posts
• FD Footnotes — for when I want to insert footnotes
• Lifestream — so you can stalk me at social networking sites on one easy page
• StatCounter — for visitor tracking
• WP-PageNavi — yay pagination!

You are currently viewing the third version this site, which is entitled Hello, tree. (I come up with weird names.) It was made on a dying Sony VAIO laptop — mocking was done in Adobe Photoshop 7 (old school!) and coding was done by hand in Notepad++. Social media icons are from Webdesigner Wall.