Dramatis Personae

A list of the significant people in my life.

Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear

His eyes are as green as a pickled toad/His hair is as dark as a blackboard. He is my fiancé and personal Harry Potter. Sort of. Also called Bear for short. We met while we were both studying abroad in London during the fall of 2005. We became good friends very quickly and fell in love very quickly. After two and a half months of dating, he proposed. One of these days I will get to have a Prohibition-styled wedding where everyone comes dressed as gangsters and dolls and gives a password to get into our speakeasy.

Bear is willing to wear eyeliner and mascara which was half of the reason I fell in love with him. The other half was because he plays with White-Harp more than I do. Teddy Bear graduated from New York University as pre-med with a degree in Psychology and now attends Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as a second year med student. He has also worked in the psychiatric ward of Trinitas Hospital in New Jersey where he used to spend most of his time chasing naked midgets up and down the corridors during bedtime.

Like me he enjoys skydiving, as well as Indian food, playing poker, and being an all around dorky badass.

White-Harp

White-Harp

Don’t let her baby face fool you: White-Harp is in fact a geriatric harp seal. This cuddly little fiend (and friend) has been in my life since I was three years old. Born in Sea World, San Diego (on May 19, 1988), she is actually a Southern Californian Harp and not an Arctic native as she would have you believe. She has recently grown out of her childish lisp and developed a more mature mode of speech, but she still has the habit of referring to herself in the third-Harp.

Despite having provided love and care for her for the past 20 years of her existence, White-Harp continually abuses me, often siding with Teddy Bear when they’re in teasing moods. She gets along best with my fiancé and would prefer to spend weekends with him playing football (with herself as the football as she is nicely balanced and aerodynamic) than with me reading books. I have repeatedly tried charging her bed-rent, but White-Harp is quite lazy and doesn’t even perform housework to earn her keep.

White-Harp loves her limited edition Selkie perfume from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, pushing me out of bed in the mornings if I don’t get up on time, and hugging with her entire body.