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Introduction Writer, student journalist, Holmesian (or is it Sherlockian?), Anglophile, theatre geek, and all around nerd. This is a chronicle of my adventures reading, writing, and well, living. My deus ex machina hasn't come yet, so I'm facing the cruel world armed with an English degree, a dry sense of humor, and woolen socks to keep me warm. I'm still holding on to the vague hope that I'll have a bestseller before I'm twenty five or that maybe a wealthy nobleman will sweep me off my feet and hopefully not still have a first wife lurking in the attic, setting things on fire. I'm turning my face to the horizon and spreading my teeny tiny wings. We'll see where the wind takes me.
Interests Books, writing, journalism, theatre arts, music, film, historical sites, tea, archery, early Anglo-Saxon poetry, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, fragrances, hand crafts, the art of letter writing, the seaside, psychology, satire and irony, the ancient Greeks, anything on PBS, cameos, Ren Faires, fabric/textiles, soaps, British pop-culture, newspapers, traveling, herbalism, and anything else that may temporarily strike my fancy- I can be capricious
Favorite Movies Across the Universe, Moulin Rouge, North and South, The Manchurian Candidate (original), Chocolat, The Princess Bride, Macbeth (70's RSC version), Stranger than Fiction, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Bringing up Baby, It Happened One Night, Rebecca, Persepolis, To Catch a Thief, The Quiet Man, The Illusionist, His Girl Friday, Almost Famous, A Knight's Tale, Wall-E, Star Trek, North by Northwest, Sharpe's Peril, Reurn of the Jedi, Bright Star, The Young Victoria, Stalag 17, Sherlock, The Thin Man, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Larkrise to Candleford, Jules and Jim
Favorite Music The Doors, The Beatles, Janis Joplin, Sia, The Grateful Dead, Scythian, The Killers, Muse, Mozart, CAKE, Vivaldi, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, The Mediaeval Baebes, Buddy Holly, The Smiths, The Everly Brothers, Bach, The Decemberists, Simon and Garfunkle, Vitamin String Quartet, Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Silversun Pickups, Old Crow Medicine Show, Florence + the Machine, The Black Keys, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The National, The Shins, Neko Case, Belle and Sebastian, Sea Wolf, etc.
Favorite Books Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Slaughterhouse Five, Anthem, Northanger Abbey, I Capture the Castle, The Bell Jar, Girl Interrupted, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, Macbeth, The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Cradle, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Walden, Tennessee Williams, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Henry IV (part 1), Keats, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Childrens Book, Possession, Catch-22, Through the Looking Glass, Case Histories, Atonement, Norwegian Wood, Gaudy Night, The Mother Tongue, The Thin Man