Music

  • Favorite Artists: Too many to list, and I'm always changing my tastes. Lately I'm big on The Chalets, Stars, Missy Elliott, and Mr. Collipark. Go figure.
  • Favorite Albums: Live "Throwing Copper", Lauryn Hill "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill", REM "Monster", Fiona Apple "Tidal"
  • Favorite Lyrics: "Scars are souvenirs you never lose The past is never far Did you lose yourself somewhere out there Did you get to be a star And don't it make you sad to know that life Is more than who we are" (from "Name" by Goo Goo Dolls)
  • Songs for Roadtrips: 90s rock
  • Songs I hate: anything by Skeletor
  • Guilty Pleasure: Britney Spears. Especially the Blackout album. And Jane Child.
  • Songs I repeat the most: Lately: "Gimme More", "Gyrate", "Ne Me Quitte Pas", "Sexy Mistake"

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Project Runway, The Hills, Grey's Anatomy
  • Favorite Reruns: Friends, Sex and the City
  • Favorite Episode: Friends: TOW the baby shower (aka the one with BAMBOOZLED!)
  • Favorite Theme Song: Cheers
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Friends, Ally McBeal, My So-Called Life

More About Me

  • Religion: "There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible." --Brad Pitt, on faith
  • Interests: linguistics, pop culture, natural history, light & shadow
  • Occupation: Grad Student

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Favorite Genre: noir
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Almost Famous, The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Movies I can watch over and over: Little Women, Almost Famous, Anastasia
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Claire Danes

Video Games

  • Games I Play: Guitar Hero, Rock Band (but only when I'm at my brother's)
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Rampage
  • Most Addictive: Snood, Spaced Penguin

Style

  • Where I shop: the clearance racks
  • I like to wear: clothing with character
  • Can't live without: my OSU hoodies
  • Guilty Pleasure: omg shoes

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: American / Southern / Soul Food
  • Favorite Dishes: beef and noodles, biscuits and gravy
  • Favorite Desserts: peach pie
  • Favorite Drinks: iced green tea
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Grippo's BBQ chips
  • Foods I hate: spare ribs, tuna, sauerkraut

Books

  • Favorite Books: In Cold Blood, The Bean Trees, Shopgirl, English with an Accent
  • Favorite Authors: Truman Capote, Barbara Kingsolver, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway
  • Favorite Characters: Holly Golightly (from Capote's Breakfast at Tiffanys)
  • Favorite Quotes: "But I stayed in school. I was not the smarter or even particularly outstanding but I was there and staying out of trouble and I intended to finish. This is not to say that I was unfamiliar with the back seat of a Chevrolet. I knew the scenery of Greenup Road, which we called Steam-It-Up Road, and I knew what a pecker looked like, and none of these sights had so far inspired me to get hogtied to a future as a tobacco farmer's wife. Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew." (from The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver)

College

  • School Name: Ohio State University, The
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 2005
  • Attended: 2000 - 2005
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): English, Linguistics
  • Greek: ΦΒΚ