*drumrolll please...*

Greetings Earthlings!

I'm the third (thus far) member of this blog, and my name is Kathleen. My main base is San Diego, California, although most of my life I lived in Norcal, the Silicon Valley area.

So what makes me tick? To sum it up, I would quote a webcomic I'm starting up which I've named, "F.eminist E.nvironmentalist V.egetarian H.umor." It was an acronym that actually spelled something--I haven't figured out how to fit "Writing," "Intellectualism," "Politics," and "Poverty alleviation," into that mix. although I suppose I could call the whole comic a PWIP FEVAH. or WH(humanitarian)IPPE(xistentialist)d(rawing)...
I could rant about all these things for hours. Unfortunately, what I should be doing is spending hours on the three research papers I have due in four weeks.

Anywho, How was it that I got invited to this elite circle? To be honest, I'm really honored that Kyla invited me to join in on the friendship that she's had with Mythili for years, especially since comparatively speaking, Kyla and I have only known each other for about two and a half years, and we've only been in the same city for about one year.

Kyla and I met through the women's center at the UCSD campus, initially as strangers that came to recognize each others' faces through our joint participation in the femme-friendly activities held there, and then came to know each other better through the writing group that Kyla started up. Kyla was very up-front about her past with an eating disorder, and with her help and the help of a smack-in-the face from my doctor, I came to terms with the fact that I had one too. I'd like to say I've completely gotten over it, but sometimes I wonder.

In any case, right now I'm putting my anger against "the system" to work as co-President and Head blogger of the Healthy Models Coalition, a group Kyla started to help fight against institutionalized anorexia in the fashion industry, (http://healthymodels.org/) and as a blogger for the Vegetarian club at my university (http://ucsdveg.blogspot.com/)

My posts often take an angry or satirical tone, mostly because the times when I feel compelled to write something are the times when I get angry or satirical. Reader beware.

--Kat, aka Frog. Amphibians need love too :D