User:KittyKat1001001

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Hi!

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My name is Kathleen (I am not giving out my last name to anyone online). I am a Sophomore in an all-girl's high school somewhere in the USA. I strive to do well in my studies at school and so usually maintain A grades. I love to be involved in many things including politics, reading, writing, and playing an instrument.

As you might be able to tell I have just recently returned to (more like joined) Wikipedia. I can be a bit excessive on correcting grammar and spelling mistakes. I am interested in (and have just signed up for) the Twilight task force as I am a major fan of the series. I love the books (most especially New Moon) and I am looking forward to helping those pages. I am also a bit interested in helping erase vandalism and the like from existing pages. I will be looking into that and other options here at Wikipedia.

In general I love to read. The Twilight series is my favorite set of books with the Wheel of Time series and Harry Potter series not too far behind it. I will read almost anything though as long as it's appropriate (I hate stuff that isn't--it's annoying to me) but I will be most willing to read fiction particularly fantasy and some sci-fi.

I do several activities at my school, the main one other than the several clubs I participate in being my school's orchestra. I play clarinet at about an intermediate level considering I haven't had personal lessons (yet) and that I am in high school (and also tend to neglect practicing).


Cone of a Douglas fir
The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae, which is native to western North America. The trees grow to a height of around 20 to 100 metres (70 to 330 feet) and commonly reach 2.4 metres (8 feet) in diameter. The largest coast Douglas firs regularly live for more than 500 years, with the oldest specimens more than 1,300 years old. The cones are pendulous and differ from true firs as they have persistent scales. The cones have distinctive long, trifid (three-pointed) bracts, which protrude prominently above each scale. The cones become tan when mature, measuring 6 to 10 centimetres (2+12 to 4 inches) long for coastal Douglas firs. This photograph shows a young female cone of the variety Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir), cultivated near Keila, Estonia.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus