First things first...

Hello. I've always felt it was polite to say "hello" first, haven't you?

Anywho, very few of you will know what "Harmenszoon" means. Some of you will. But you know the painter, Rembrandt? Did you know that his last name is not Rembrandt? It's his first name. One day, a Friday, a friend of mine brought a crossword puzzle into Biology. Unable to resist a good puzzle, my entire table decided to help solve it, but the one clue that riddled me the most was "Rembrandt van ____" Rembrandt wasn't his last name? So two periods later, I looked it up. His name was Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Yay! Wait, "Harmenszoon"? What? What kind of a middle name is that? And so, Harmenszoon! It's one of my slogans now. It joined such things as "Let's eat this whole eggnog" and "Orange juice is the holy land." (long story-maybe I'll tell it sometime).

My name is Katie. Well, not really, but as far as you're concerned, it's Katie. If you've read my Mom's blog, you've heard of me. If not, you haven't. I am a writer. Sci-fi is awesome. I've tried to write fantasy, mystery, fairy tale, realistic fiction, you name it, I've tried it. But nothing worked except sci-fi. I'm a nerd. And for those who think that a nerd is Steve Irkel, change your thinking, because I can tell you, it's not, but I'll get to that later, too.

Very recently, I've gotten into Doctor Who. I'm pretty much an expert on the reboot, at least everything that's been aired so far. I don't know anything about Clara Oswin Oswald. From time to time, you may hear me go on and on about Who. As recently as 2009, I got into Star Trek, and now I've seen every episode of the 24th century series (TNG, DS9, VOY). Enterprise sucks, by the way. It needs more Porthos. So you may hear me go on and on about Trek. I've been a Star Wars nerd ever since I first played "Star Wars: Lego". Fun game. I will not likely go on and on about Star Wars, but you never know. Loved dogs forever. That's going to be a lot more of a likely topic, but the most likely topic is going to be people. They befuddle me, which leads me to...Okay, change the entry now. I'm serious. Change it. Fine. Be that way. But you're going to miss it. See, now you're changing since I told you you'd miss something.