Hey World!

My name is Reilly, pronounced like Riley but spelled in a much more awesome way.  Akin to what Marwa, Bakari, and Karena have posted this week, I too will post a short autobiography.

I, unfortunately, don't have any sort of title, sick-amazing-sweet subject I'm studying in University, or job to slide in here.  I'm just a high school student, aged 15.  (When I wrote that number I got the haunting suspicion that I was being laughed at.  Please don't hurt me! ...Bro.)

So I'm Irish, but I live in Toronto, Canada.  I lived for 2 years in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, on the east coast, then in Thunder Bay, Ontario, near the north, then in London, Ontario, in the south, and now; the big smoke.

So, I was planning on writing a post all about why I love the show Toddlers and Tiaras because of the interesting contrast it draws between the parents motivation to put their babies and toddlers into pageants, and the children's motivations to be in them such as "because I'm pretty; because of money; because I like winning; et cetera," but that will be saved for another run-on sentence for another date. 

I've spent all week, since last Friday sick and in bed with a chest infection and so I'm running low on happenings in my life and and quickly becoming overstocked on symptoms of cabin fever.

So, onto my family.  My brother is 20 years old and is currently getting a his BA in Psychology (it's not an art, it's a science but it's considered an art because it's less comprehensive and requires less maths and sciences in England) at the University of Liverpool.  My mother, whom I live with, is the Dean of Education at OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) at the University of Toronto.  And my father, whom I don't speak to on moral grounds, is the Chair for Developmental Psychology at the University of Lancaster in Lancaster, UK.  I just found out he is publishing 2 books with the Oxford University press, which is kind of cool, but the coolness was damped down by the fact that I had to Google him to even find out what his job was.

That's all for today, and I wanted to end this post nicely with a photo: