Post by bethany charisse spitznogle on Jun 13, 2011 1:07:07 GMT -5
BETHANY CHARISSE SPITZNOGLE
| B A S I C S |
Name Bethany Charisse Spitznogle
Nicknames Beth. Sometimes, people call her Spitz or Spitznogle, but she hates this.
PB ANNE HATHAWAY BIIIITCCHHH
Age 26
Sex female
Year TA
Major/Concentration Journalism
Minor
Occupation Radio show host from 2-6 AM
Teaches two sections of Broadcast Journalism I
Is a TA for diversity & justice
Location New York City| P E R S O N A L I T Y |
If people were asked to describe Beth, the feature they would likely pick out first is the fact that she complains a lot. Her complaining is beyond normal complaining and can only properly be described in Yiddish, by other Jewish women who complain in the same way and with the same vigor. Beth isn’t like some people who try to victimize themselves in their complaining. No, Beth just always has something to say about something and it’s usually negative, especially since she hates her job and her weight and doesn’t get much sleep at all. Not only does she complain a lot, but Beth talks a lot as well. She’s prone to rambling and long, one-sided conversations. It’s not enough to just give the pertinent information in a conversation, she has to give any related information as well. It is, after all, very difficult to decide which pieces of information are actually relevant and important to the story.
Beth dislikes most aspects of her life, aside from her family. She has a crappy work schedule, teaches classes, and also attends classes to get her degree. As such, she is frequently mopey and when she’s mopey, she eats. In fact, she eats on most occasions. When she’s sad, she wants chocolate and pizza and donuts and cake and when she’s happy, she celebrates by eating. Every occasion is an occasion for Beth to stuff her face and she has been known to get violent if something comes in the way of her and her food. She is almost dependent on food to solve her problems and usually offers food up as consolation for anyone who needs sympathy. That’s not to say that she isn’t sympathetic without food--she is. She prides herself on being a good listener, although she is a better talker, and plenty of people have used her as a shoulder to cry on.
As much as she has reported on the news and seen, Beth has little world experience and is very naïve. She trusts way too easily and is good at being screwed over. Unfortunately, she is so busy that she often has no time to be screwed over. Instead, she’s just used as everyone’s bitch. She is so used to assuming the assistant position that it just comes naturally in most situations. Most of the time, she’ll do whatever she’s told without a second thought, as long as it’s not unreasonable. The more tired she is, the more complacent she is, though she’s also more likely to snap in those instances. Like everyone else, Beth gets cranky when she’s tired and, due to her messed up sleeping schedule, Beth is pretty much always tired. Thus, Beth is fairly irritable on a regular basis.
Despite that, she’s pretty friendly. She can come off a bit rough around the edges, due to her crabbiness, but she’s very good at making friends when she works up the courage to talk to them. This is largely because she is so chatty--she could carry on a conversation with a rock if it was the only thing in the room. She always has something to say and is very opinionated and often finds it necessary to say exactly what’s on her mind at any given time. In school, she always made her friends by chatting at them until they regarded her in the same light that she regarded them and things haven’t changed much since graduation. She’s good at talking to new people and making other people feel comfortable[ish] in strange social situations, like double dates. Unfortunately, her mouth doesn’t really have an “off” button.
Strengths: hardworking When she’s not being lazy, she works very hard. She’s good at getting things done when they need to be done and this is one of the things that makes her an excellent assistant.
family-oriented Beth would do anything for her family. She is very over protective of her younger sister, who is in rehab for having a mental breakdown, and she is also very protective of David, despite the fact that he’s a jerk.
Adaptive As much as she complains and doesn’t like things to change, she has always been good at adapting to new situations, I.e. getting a fail job, getting a new family, people in her family having babies.
Weaknesses: Pushover It is very easy to walk all over Beth. She is used to being people’s assistant and she is good at taking orders. Oftentimes, she takes orders without even realizing that she is or that she doesn’t have to. Both of her step-siblings take advantage of this.
Complainish Beth is not happy unless she’s complaining about something, like her job, her classes, her students, the fact that she has no frosting, her weight, her sister, her brother, her other sister, etc.
Disorganized Though she can keep other people’s lives in fairly good order, she is terrible at organizing her own. She tries to keep a day planner and an address book, but if something doesn’t fit in her cell phone, she rarely remembers it. She tends to forget to do things frequently unless she leaves herself lists.
| H I S T O R Y |
When Beth was born, her father was married to a woman named Julie. Her father, Paul, wanted to name her Bogart, but Julie categorically refused to have her child named after a male celebrity, especially not his last name. Cowed by her assertions, Paul settled on Charisse as a middle name and Julie chose Bethany, after her late great-grandmother. Despite how adamant Julie was to have things her way, she wasn’t as thrilled about having a child as she probably should have been. Despite the fact that they had been married for three years and she was nearing thirty, Julie still felt too young to have a family and children. She stayed in the family until just before Beth’s first birthday, being completely done with breast feeding and the specific mother tasks by that point. Paul didn’t know what happened and, had Beth been lucid, she wouldn’t have known either. One day, Julie was there, and the next, she and all of her things were gone.
Paul would have liked to have moped around the house, but he had a baby girl that was the light of his life to take care of. Luckily, he had never moved far from his parents and they were a huge help when it came to raising his motherless child. Paul did the best he could, but despite his intentions, he lacked a mother’s touch. Beth didn’t know what she was missing, however, and had a wonderful childhood. Her father had all the time for her in the world, it seemed, and he tried so hard to make things right. It was difficult for him to be there for her as often when tax season rolled around, but other than that, he was a number one dad, something both of his parents were extremely proud of. Even when Julie sent him divorce papers with only her attorney’s address on envelope, he did not waver in his care.
He was glad, though, when Beth was five and he met Karen Goldstein, a woman extremely active in their small temple. She had a three year old and an infant and her husband had passed away before the infant was born. They were married a year and a half later and Beth finally had a mother to look up to.
Since she was so young, she took to having a stepfamily beautifully. Finally, she had someone to help dress her in the morning that actually seemed excited about it and another girl to play with on school nights. Eventually, she and her new sister Rachel started to fight just like real sisters and Karen and Paul couldn’t have been happier. When Beth was seven, Rachel was five, and David was three, Karen announced that she was pregnant. Nine months later, there was another girl in the family, Allison.
As she grew older, Beth became the responsible one. Her father knew that, when Rachel demanded his attention or when David made messes and got into trouble, he could leave Beth for awhile and she could easily occupy herself. She could even, it seemed, sort of keep her siblings in check when she put her mind to it and she sort of rose to be their keeper as she got older. And, as she got older, she and Rachel started to grow apart. Beth liked to eat whereas Rachel preferred to throw up, earning her a superior social status to Beth the second she entered high school. Rachel did get over her eating disorder quickly, but it seemed as though she was perpetually on a diet. She, in turn, was gorgeous and popular while Beth was merely sociable as editor of the school newspaper.
She graduated in the top ten percent of her class and went off to New York University. She was surprised when, as a freshman in the dorm expecting only daily calls from her parents, she started getting daily calls from David. Usually, he was complaining about Rachel, but soon, they would chat like she did with her friends. It was strange being close to her younger brother, but she didn’t mind and both of her parents thought it was exciting. She and David stayed close until she graduated and, when she moved out of the dorms and into her own apartment in the city, David followed in her footsteps and went to NYU.
She was glad that David was there, or she probably wouldn’t have made it through the first month or so of job searching. Finally, she landed an assistant position at a company for which she’d interned and essentially became the owner’s bitch. She was there all the time and on call all the rest and she found being an assistant much like being an intern. Fortunately, however, the company managed to get her a job at one of the radio stations they owned and Beth soon became the new early morning DJ. She hated it, but it was better than being an assistant 24/7. She still kept her job, but her hours were reduced and she could no longer be on call between the hours of two and six AM, since she was on the radio. They even gave her weekends off, unless it was an emergency.
Beth liked her new job at first. Being a radio show host wasn’t exactly what she wanted to do with her journalism degree, but at least it was something. After awhile, though, that something turned into too much. Working two boring jobs was terrible, but she couldn’t find anything else. David was largely unhelpful, since he was lazy and getting his degree in philosophy, but he was the support she needed and, ultimately, it was his idea that she go back to school. She applied to NYU so that she could keep her job, if necessary, but NYU rejected her, much to her dismay. Thus, with David and her mother, she sought out schools to apply to and applied to at least twelve. She was, thankfully, accepted to five.
When she told her boss, he was upset, but he was much more supportive than she thought he would be. He offered to transfer her to a job in Rhode Island or a job in Georgia. Since she didn’t want to be in the bible belt, she accepted the job in Rhode Island and responded positively to her acceptance from Meringue Mountain University. She is now both a TA and a teacher.
| A P P E A R A N C E |
Were Beth the size that she would like to be, she would weight 115 pounds and wear a size 6. Unfortunately, Beth is nowhere near her ideal size and, while she would never reveal how much she actually weighs, she is mostly unashamed to admit that she is a size 14. She has always been chubby, no matter how much she tries to diet, and has mostly come to terms with that fact. She’s given up on dieting and instead tries to walk more than drive or ride so that she can eat however she pleases. She’s surprisingly in shape for her size, at least in terms of how long it takes her to lose her breath, and she moves pretty quickly. This is largely due to how long she lived in New York City, but it’s still impressive. She’s average height, about 5’5, and doesn’t wear heels to improve this unless she’s going somewhere important.
If she’s not dressed for work, she’s usually in jeans. Since it’s chilly enough for one most of the year, she prefers to wear sweaters and boots and most of her wardrobe seems to be of the winter variety. When she dresses up, she does it in dark colors and likes to look as clean and sharp as possible. She does not like to be without makeup, since she has such irregular sleeping hours and, thus, the tendency to look like a raccoon. She also usually wears her hair up, also due to lack of sleep and time to primp. Her hair is no longer its natural color. It used to be a muddier brown, sort of dark and dull, but she has died it to be a nicer shade of chestnut. It matches her eyes better this way.
| S K I L L S |
ignoring| P L A Y E R |
Name Grrrrreta!
Age 20
Gender female
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