My name is Erika Marie Vause and I am seriously obsessive. And now for some things you haven't guessed already.

I am a 21-year-old history/English major at UC Berkeley. I am not now nor have ever been a member of the Communist Party. I don't know where people get that idea. Words that describe me include moody, intense, passionate, obsessive, neurotic, strange and occasionally diabolic. I lack all manual coordination (as well as common and navigational sense). I am easily traumatized. I consider myself one of Pavlov's smarter dogs. Other people call me a coward. I am a compulsive bibliophile. I am obsessed with the French Revolution (if you somehow missed that...). I love the music of Tom Lehrer and Capitol Steps, I am addicted to aspartame-laden carbonated diet beverages that will inevitably cause life-long damage to my enamel, I am aware of the threat to our way of life posed by hamsters and squirrels, I'm obsessed with politics but am officially unaffiliated and I exhibit compulsive petting behavior with damp tassels. My goal for the future is to become a cantankerous old lady with all kinds of crotchety eccentricities. They'll just think it's because I'm old. My major disappointment in life right now is that my head does not go the entire way around

Dead White European Males are my friends, I talk to them often. This explains a lot of things....my lack of social life for example ...the fact that I was in counseling from 2nd through 7th grades in 4 different school districts for another.