User:Stara729
Hello World!
I am a college student hailing from the glorious Windy City. I will update this page whenever I remember something noteworthy about myself. No, I am not an amnesiac - I just always seem to forget my most important traits precisely when I need to remember them...
Favorites
Books
→ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
→ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
→ A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
→ Howards End by E. M. Forster
→ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Mangas
→ Angelic Layer by Clamp
→ Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori
→ Gakuen Alice by Tachibana Higuchi
→ Dengeki Daisy by Kyousuke Motomi
TV Shows
→ Sherlock
Movies
→ Hugo
Music
→ Quatuor Ébène (page developed!)
→ Coldplay
→ Muse
→ Bon Iver
Food
→ Tomatoes
→ Sushi
→ Baozi
→ Mochi
→ Anything that's served at Thanksgiving dinner, i.e. turkey with gravy and stuffing and sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce and wild rice
Places
→ San Francisco, CA
→ Montréal, Québec (Yes, a little different than the above)
→ And of course, the marvelous Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wikipedia interests
I'm interested, for Wikipedia purposes, in the following topics:
→ Classical music: particularly string solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire and composers
→ Anime: anything by Studio Ghibli
→ Learning how to use Wikipedia! I'm new to the site, so by all means leave me a message to give me advice or simply say hi!
Currently working on
→ Editing the xxxHolic page
→ Editing the List of xxxHolic characters page
→ Editing the Clamp page
→ Improving any page that has to do with Clamp, actually
→ Editing the Bach Cello Suites page
→ Editing and adding on to the Pieter Wispelwey page - he's my favorite Bach interpreter!
→ Expanding the Jean-Guihen Queyras page
→ Improving the János Starker page
→ Translating the French wiki for Jacques Mistral into English (done, needs some work though)
→ Fixing stuff as a member of the Studio Ghibli task force
→ Looking around for more cello-related things to improve
→ Translating the French wiki for Ophélie Gaillard into English (done, needs some work too)
→ Creating an xxxHOLiC Rei page (waiting for updates...)
→ Creating an English-language page for French string quartet Quatuor Ébène (done!)
→ Editing the Wenzel Pichl page
→ Learning how to Wikipedia...
Skills
→ Language translation and interpretation: English, français, and فارسی
→ English grammar, spelling, and syntax
→ Classical music performance
→ Does being a CLAMP fan count?
Fun stuff
How is a raven like a writing desk?
Poe wrote on both of them.
Quotes
"Only connect! - E. M. Forster, Howards End
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