Sydney Smith (Blog #11)

Who is my neighbor? Chelsea Alexandra Southworth. She's one of my best friends, so I obviously knew her very well before we sat next to each other in English. She is an INSANELY AMAZING writer- like, you should read some of that chick's writing. She is so driven to excel in writing; she fills notebooks with ideas for novels and spends her days daydreaming about characters. One of my favorite things about her writing is that she says her characters control the story; she just writes it down. She doesn't see herself as the one coming up with the story; rather, as the one reporting it. She likes to say that "writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia", which I think is completely accurate. 

Her favorite color? It used to be blue. I don't really know anymore; I haven't asked in a while. I know it was blue in elementary school, and I bet that's still it.

In 5 years, I know that Chelsea will be at Duke University studying evolutionary anthropology. She is SUPER AWESOME at that stuff, and she loves it a whole lot. After she gets her masters degree (and probably her doctorate as well), she will go to Africa and study bonobos (her favorite animal). She really loves bonobos.

Chelsea's spirit animal is a cat. She probably wouldn't agree with me about that, but I can kinda see it. If cats were more sarcastic and awesome.

She is completely obsessed with Tom Hiddleson. She hopes that she can marry him someday, which is a little awkward, but I guess there are worse things in life. She fan-girls like nothing I've ever seen. It's hilarious! Chelsea is amazing overall; I'm honored to have known her for so long- 9 years, hooray!!