Ms. Hilley
- Age: 37
- Gender: Female
- Astrological Sign: Leo
- Zodiac Year: Boar
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: AP and Gifted English Instructor
- Location: Orlando : Florida : United States
About Me
"As idle as a painted ship/Upon a painted ocean" --Samuel Taylor Coleridge. That pretty much sums it up.
You're going to the moon! What did you forget to pack?
Miss Bronte, Miss Bronte. . .
Interests
- magic realism
- Arabic music
- coffee
- tea
- literature of all genres
- writing
- blogging
- shiny objects
- lemurs
- tai chi
- tolkein
- bronte
- shakespeare
- sophocles
- coleridge
- wordsworth
- shelley
- keats
- morrison
- walker
- david foster wallace (RIP)
- mark leyner
- douglas coupland
- vladimir nabakov
- project runway
- digital photography
- foreign travel
- teaching
- myPod
- my niece and nephews
- chai tea lattes
- sarcasm
- art
- poetry
- pirates
Favorite Movies
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Princess Bride
- Star Wars LOTR
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Doris Day movies
- Now Voyager
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Amelie
- About a Boy
- High Fidelity
- Star Trek (esp. The Wrath of Khan)
- MONTY PYTHON AND THE QUEST FOR THE HOLY GRAIL
- Hamlet
- Erik the Viking
- The Godfather I and II (not III)
- Harry Potter
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Office Space
- Mel Brooks's work
- Citizen Kane
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Dumb and Dumber
- Terms of Endearment
- Belle du Jour
- Cinema Paradiso
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Little Miss Sunshine
Favorite Music
- Ofra Haza
- U2
- the Verve
- Bad Company
- The Eagles
- The Beatles
- Elvis Costello
- The Smithereens
- The Smiths
- Diana Krall
- Tori Amos
- Sarah M.
- Delerium
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Tasmin Archer
- Paul Oakenfold
- Depeche Mode
- Smashing Pumpkins
- INXS
- Luscious Jackson
- Crowded House
- Weird Al
- Arctic Monkeys
- The Hives
- Edmee
- Enya
- Liz Story
- Suzanne Vega
- Roy Orbison
- The Lonely Island
- Oasis
- 1980's music
- too many more to list
Favorite Books
- One Hundred Years of Solitude and everything else Gabriel Garcia Marquez ever wrote
- Jane Eyre
- Hamlet
- Macbeth
- Henry V
- The Orchid Thief
- Lolita
- The Kite Runner
- Still Life with Woodpecker
- The Hotel New Hampshire
- The World According to Garp
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tess
- Jude the Obscure
- anything by Jennifer Weiner
- The Lovely Bones
- Griffin and Sabine
- Beloved
- Madame Bovary
- My Antonia
- far too many more to mention here
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