==The Payback== "I don't know karate, but I know cuh-razy..."

I'd like to take a moment to clear the air here. I'm crazy. My boss is crazy. All my co-workers are crazy. I work for an organization that's run by crazy people, for crazy people. Sometimes the people are homeless and crazy, sometimes the people are dangerous and crazy.

All my friends are crazy, and pretty much any boyfriend's going to be crazy. All my family is mildly crazy, and my Mom's not mildly crazy - she's crazy crazy. Every single emergency service in this county comes when most of us call like we have their asses on speed dial, which we don't. They just know us.

I didn't come to this Encyclopedia to instigate, investigate, or castigate. I came to Wikipedia because a former classmate killed herself. I lived about an hour away from her, and when she died she was even closer. It was on Wikipedia that I found out about her life, her pain, and her death.

Iris was a beautiful and quiet girl. As I remember it, we used to play a variation of spades in the hallways of Uni High all the time. I could be wrong, I played "3/5/9" with lots of girls. But that's how I choose to remember it, So that's how I remember it. I don't have very many true heroes in my life, but she's one of them.

I used to play poker online. In fact, I played every day for about a year and a half. First Party Poker, then Full Tilt Poker. In fact, I used to drink and play poker. Then I stopped drinking and just played poker every single day, sometimes all day. When I came to Wikipedia, I stopped playing cold. I haven't played since (though I was pretty good).

I edit Wikipedia for a lot of reasons, and so do you. Let me tell you what's perhaps the difference between you and me. I will never stop. Not for you, and not for anyone, even at the cost of my personal welfare and life. I have never lied on Wikipedia. I've obfuscated a couple of times, but that's it. If you don't believe it, try something. Wade through all those dangerous, crazy, people and come and get me.

If you do whatever you might want to do, hats off to you and shame on me. Ten people will take my place. A hundred people will take my place. Perhaps 6 billion plus people will take my place. And I will still be here anyway, in every single edit. So what on Earth and Holy Heaven do I care?

There's a userbox I like a lot, though in truth I have a love/hate relationship with them. It says:

DGAF

This user does not give a fuck and as such will respond to comments with apathy.

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I like the sentiment but I'll never be like that. I care about everything, especially you. Here is my userbox:

This user does not give a fuck, and as such may respond with extreme passion.

My name is Nina, and I'm crazy. I'm also not a tiger, I'm a lion.

=*=Fuck Wiki-markup and fuck HTML.Nina Odell 14:57, 5 January 2007 (UTC)