Eclectically Unique: About Me

Hi! My name is Morgan.

I was born May 5, 1991 as the first and only child of my parents.

I'm living with my parents for the time being while I'm in college until I get my degree. My dad works as a manager for the Presbyterian call center and my mom works as a medical technologist.

I am currently working part time and attending college full time as I pursue a degree in Veterinary Technology. I've always loved animals so I decided to go ahead and make a career of it! My hope after getting my associate's degree is to get my bachelor's degree in equine sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. My primary goal is to be able to work primarily with horses, but also other large animals.

I grew up attending public school in Albuquerque till the seventh grade when my family moved out to Edgewood in the mountains and my mom began homeschooling me. I graduated in May 2009 with honors. I began taking classes at Eastern New Mexico University fall 2009 with plans to major in photojournalism.

However, as it turned out, photojournalism was not my calling, nor was vocal performance or wildlife biology as I found out. I attended college there for a little over a year before returning home during the fall 2010 semester after going through a bad break up and struggling with depression. Following that I took a year off of college and then began taking classes at the University of New Mexico in fall 2011. I put any college plans on hold after the spring 2012 semester and began to focus on work and saving money in addition to auditioning for various plays and working as an extra for a couple of movies and tv shows since, at the time, I wanted to pursue an acting career.

I went back to UNM in the spring of 2015 and had a hard semester. I took the fall semester off and decided that UNM just wasn't for me and decided to instead enroll at CNM, Central New Mexico Community College, for the spring semester of 2016 and go for my Vet Tech degree as I said before. I completed my pre-requisites for the program through the spring and summer and was successfully accepted into the program starting in the fall of 2016. I am currently in my second semester with the hopes of graduating in the spring of 2018!

Some random facts about me:

I love to read. My personal library is over twice as big as my parent's. Though I do enjoy in-depth non-fiction books, I prefer fiction works and I'm a sucker for classics. One of my all-time favorite books is Wuthering Heights along with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Unfortunately due to school I haven't had much time to read for fun.

Music is my passion and I can't live without it. You can generally tell how I'm feeling by whatever songs I'm listening to. I love basically all kinds of music except rap, really hard metal songs, blues, and some jazz. I love oldies and my parents laugh when I'm over the moon about getting my Rick Astley and Journey cds in the mail. I also collect soundtracks from movies, tv shows and video games.

I am a huge fan of British TV. I feel like for the most part American shows have so much junk and just aren't all that original whereas a lot of British shows are just absolutely brilliant. I also have a thing for Korean and Chinese dramas. I like the fact that they're overall shorter than both American and British shows since most run between 24 and 30 or so episodes, but you can still really see the characters grow and develop. I like getting to see the different cultural aspects as well as the different film styles, costumes, cinematography, and music. I also just love the languages!

I really enjoy cooking. I don't get to do it a whole lot due to my busy schedule, but I enjoy it when I can. I especially like it when my mom and I get to cook together and we experiment with different ingredients and flavors.

Writing is my escape. I have about six journals that I write in and various pieces of paper floating about with song ideas, book ideas, partial poems, etc. Writing lyrics is a way for me to unwind and get my thoughts out as well as my problem. I've started about three different books but I've never gotten very far just because I never have time to write anymore. Maybe one of these days I'll do something with them...
Also with that, I kind of collect journals. I have so many of them! I'm really bad at going over to the journal section in book stores and just looking. I usually end up buying at least one cause it's so pretty or has a really inspiring message.

I adore animals, especially dogs and horses hence why I decided to become a vet tech. I've basically dreamed of owning a horse since I was about two years old. Still hasn't happened. *sigh* But I do own four dogs and a cat. They're crazy and annoying and I love them to death.

Tea is one of my favorite drinks. I simply cannot function without my morning cup of tea. What coffee is to most people, tea is to me. Doesn't mean that I hate coffee though. I still enjoy it on occasion.
If something is really popular and everyone's going crazy over it, I tend to avoid it. Examples: once Twilight practically went viral, I lost interest and also had an epiphany that made me realize how bad it was, at least in my opinion. And the second example is the Hunger Games. With everyone obsessing about the books and movie right now, I'm honestly not at all that interested in it and plan to keep avoiding it. Plus I honestly don't like the sound of it.
I live in the heart of Albuquerque, but I'm really a country girl. I hate the city, it just feels so claustrophobic. I much prefer being out in the mountains.
Going with that last fact, my favorite place on earth is a little rural town in Colorado: Silverton. I plan on building a house out there once I make a boatload of money. ;)