katherine lynette spencer

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KATHERINE LYNETTE SPENCER

Name: Katherine Lynette Spencer
Nicknames: Kate, Kat, Kathy Kay, all the usual nicknames that go with Katherine.
Age: Thirty-Five.
Date of Birth: January Twelfth
Orientation: Strictly heterosexual. Unless very, very drunk, then... who really knows what she’ll do.
Nationality: Australian - American
Home Town: Sydney, Australia
Subject Taught: Voice Coach
Several types of Ballroom Dances, mostly Latin forms.
Play by: Lauren Graham

--- OUT-GOING
Katherine has, and probably always will be, a people person. Since she was young, she has been able to walk up to anyone and just start talking. Granted, as a child, that did cause a bit of concern with her parents. Having a kid go up to adults and start talking about what brand of vacuum cleaner they like the most isn't something that most kids do. But Katherine is a natural born social butterfly. Though, it's not just that she can talk to people, it's that she wants to and doesn't feel comfortable on her own. Thinking about herself is something she tends to avoid, so if she submerges herself in constant interaction with others, she finds it easier to avoid her own problems and focus on helping others in whatever way they need to be helped. It would follow, then, that Katherine isn't necessarily the center of attention when she's in a group, but they all know she's there. The go-to girl when it comes to offering a shoulder to cry on or someone to listen.

--- COMPASSIONATE
That being said, it would make sense to call this girl compassionate. One thing she learned early in her life is never to tell someone that's grieving you 'understand'. She's tried to live that way most of her life when someone has come to a problem. She can't offer understanding to everyone, but she'll sure as hell do anything else you need her to do. Her compassion is almost to the point of being a pushover. Helping and watching others succeed makes her happy; it gives her joy because she knows that she was never able to reach her goals. So, when faults and dirty little secrets start popping up in lives of her friends, she's likely to look the other way and press on as if they're still the best person in the world. Though she does try to ignore her own faults by focusing on others, if she does start noticing something wrong with someone, she's more likely to go home and beat herself up about it and list it as a fault of her own that she just didn't fix. Blaming others for something seems wrong, in her book.

--- TOUGH
Though not in a physically sense (though she's certainly not weak), this girl is very tough. Katherine one-hundred percent lives by the statment "Never let them see you cry." Showing sadness, fear and so forth are admitting a weakness to others, and Katherine has never been able to live like that. She's not able to just freely open up and share information with anyone that will listen; it takes a lot more trust than that. After getting her heart broken once, she adapted and formed her personality around it. You would think that, because of this, she doesn't make that many friends, but it's exactly the opposite. Katherine is willing to befriend just about anyone, she simply doesn't share her struggles. 'Suffer in silence type' is what most call it, and Katherine prefers it that way. She doesn't ever want to be a burden to someone else because of her own problems that she can't fix on her own.

LIKES:
Reading Romance Novels
Southern States
Helping Others
Documentaries
Classical Music
Giving Gifts
Teaching
Australia
Summer
Family
Opera
Dogs
Art
DISLIKES:
That She Blames Herself Too Much
Admitting Faults In Her Friends
Having Her Picture Taken
Not Pursuing Her Dream
Missing a Morning Run
Serious Decisions
Feeling Belittled
Disorganization
Sitting Still
Rap Music
Violence
Snakes
Snow

Katherine was born to Linus and Marie Spencer nearly thirty-five years ago and was their first and only child. Like many other children, she had a rough first few years. Her parents spent more than half their time arguing with each other. The only reason they stopped arguing was because they were sleeping or away at work. Linus was an angry and semi-abusive man, though more so with words than his fists. Marie, on the other hand, fit the bill of the typical abused spouse. She loved her husband, leaned on him, and thought that she wouldn't ever be able to live without him. Turns out, Marie and Katherine had to learn to live without him, because when she was seven, her father left without a word.

Marie fell into a depression, becoming nearly catatonic. So, at seven years of age, Katherine started doing almost everything. She'd get herself to and from school, make herself dinner and get her mom what she needed. From then on, she told herself that her mother simply needed help; she needed someone to lean on and that's where Katherine fit in. It was one of the few things she could tell herself to stop herself from blaming her mother. Life rolled on this way for several years. There were times when Marie seemed completely fine, then days when she was completely broken down again. For the most part, to Katherine, life was normal. She was thirteen when she first started singing. There was a teacher at school that encouraged her to get lessons and continue in her dream of becoming an opera singer. Most of her teachers even thought she had a chance at reaching it.

She got a scholarship to an art college. She took it and began commuting to the school everyday and making sure her mother was doing fine at night. Into her senior year is when her mother got sick. It took less than two months for her to pass away. It was mostly due to the fact that the Spencer girls were always secretive when it came to their emotions. Marie didn't want to show pain, and therefore hid her symptoms.

Her mother's passing sent Katherine into a depression of her own. She failed out of college and left an opera group she was a part of, turning her back on most all of her dreams. Getting away from her childhood was the one thing she wanted to do, so she packed up what she had and ended up moving to America. It helped her, for the most part, and she was soon adjusting to her new life. Though she wasn't ready to pursue a career in opera, she did want to find something that would allow her to distract herself. Something she was good at and felt good about. It took her awhile, but she ended up with a teaching job at Emerson College as a voice coach and dance instructor. Perhaps not as well known as some of the other teachers, unless one was to follow happenings in the world of opera, she is certainly good at what she does and strives to help others reach their goals and dreams in life.

Why Emerson?
When Katherine moved to America, she was looking for something she would be able to do with her talents. Though she never 'made it big' in the music world, she is quite talented and knows several dances. So when she stumbled upon the Emerson college of arts, she took up a position as a voice coach and dance teacher. Though it may not have been the most well informed decision, Katherine has enjoyed the students and faculty here at Emerson and feels it was the right decision, regardless of the fact that it was made on a whim.

Please refer to Mr. Levi Westin's application. Thank you, kindly.

Hi, I'm SQUIDSQUID and I'm NOT SO old. I'm IN UR PANTS. This is my SECOND application. I found Failure's Not Flattering from YO MOMMA.

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