About Ana and her Author...

From the author:

So here’s the deal. I make a lot of this stuff up. Either that, or I warp it beyond belief to make it funny, obnoxious, or seen through Ana’s eyes.

Ana
Ana is a fictional character whose musings are often inspired by her writer's own life. She lives in a neighborhood called Rosemont that's known around town for being full of hippies, artists, drugs, and homosexuals. In reality, Rosemont has actually become quite Bobo (Bourgeois Bohemian) in the last ten years, yet still supports a healthy number of tattoo parlors. Ana is flighty, neurotic, flirty, scathing, coy, sarcastic, cynical, and sometimes bitter. She drinks a lot of red wine, and is a little bit off her rocker. Ana does everything with gusto. She thinks that law school is boring and would rather be an artist. At moments she'd like a boyfriend, but is ultimately afraid of commitment because she doesn’t want to be tied down. She would only want to get married if she could do it several different times. As a result, her romances tend to be fast, furious, and take place primarily in her imagination. She might be misinterpreted as somewhat pretentious, but in fact Ana just likes learning new things and gets excited when others share in her pursuits. She doesn’t understand why some people don’t have an innate curiosity in everything around them. She wishes the world were a little more well-rounded. Ana can be feisty at times, but has a good heart.

Ana has two major partners-in-crime:

Wine-Time-Girl, named such for frequent get togethers involving a glass of wine, goes to law school and has a more positive outlook on love than Ana. WTG always carries a novel in her purse and is usually reading a book or pondering the meaning of life.

Alex met Ana through friends of friends and graduated from other-university (the other big school in town). Part hippie and part hipster, the former Americorps participant divides his time between working at a folk art gallery and tending bar. Alex can often be seen zipping around town on his bike with a messenger bag he made himself.

Author
The author is a quiet person who spent the bulk of her childhood hidden in her room with either a book or her daydreams. Unlike Ana, she wants to be a lawyer. Really. Believe it or not, she is an optimist. (What can I say? I love irony.) She’s a pretty private person and it takes a long time and a lot of teeth pulling to get to know her. She’s not a man-hater. She’s more stable than she’d like to be. She writes for enjoyment and blogs anonymously to avoid confusion. That being said, in moments of adventure, Ana can become her alter ego.