Melissa
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | mom |
| Location | Oz, No Wizard, United States |
| Introduction | part-time poet, full-time mom, wannabe runner, procrastinator, worrier, amateur astronomer, perpetually caffeinated, beer enthusiast, former teacher, lefty. |
| Interests | coffee, beer, funny movies, good conversation, people who are entertaining, music, poetry, philosophy, quantum physics, astronomy, poodles, weather, fast food, birds, golf, tennis, not coming off old and lame in this damn box |
| Favorite movies | Almost Famous, Old School, Superbad, School of Rock, Raising Arizona, Lost in Translation, Lord of the Rings, Napoleon Dynamite, Contact, The Matrix, Tommy Boy, Grosse Point Blanke, Say Anything, 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, ' Star Wars (original trilogy), Breakfast Club... |
| Favorite music | A little bit of everything, from classic rock (Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Rolling Stones, and Fleetwood Mac to name a few) to chick rock (Ani DiFranco, Heather Nova, Sara McLachlan, and Sheryl Crow) to modern rock (Kings of Leon, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Fray, Green Day) to 80's one-hit wonders (hey, it helps me re-live my teen years). |
| Favorite books | The Catcher in the Rye, The Color Purple, The Bean Trees, The House of Mirth, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, A Brief History of Nearly Everything, Sound and the Fury, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gastby, Hamlet, everything Douglas Adams, everything (poetry) Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Sandra Cisneros, Ted Kooser, and Anne Sexton, Louise Gluck, Lucille Clifton. I could list about a hundred books/authors, but then the concept of 'favorite' is muddied. |