Birthday:
October 7th, 1981 ... Commit this to memory my friends!

Hobbies:
Reading (fiction, philosophy, the "classics", women's studies ...)
Running, tai chi, & karate (for exercise and stress relief)
Theater type stuff (on stage, behind the scenes, and directing)
Writing (everything)

Current Favorite TV Shows:
Buffy
The Daily Show
Daria (even though it’s off air now, *sob*)
Hellsing
Law and Order: SVU
The West Wing

Favorite Children's Fiction:
The Bridge to Terrabithia, Katherine Patterson
The Giver, Lois Lowry
The Scary Stories Series, R.C. Welch
The Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Series, Alvin Schwartz
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

Favorite Fiction:
American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Children of the Alley, Naguib Mafouz
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Hamlet, Shakespeare
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Observatory Mansions, Edward Carey
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansbury
The Shining, Stephen King
Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind
The World According to Garp, John Irving

Favorite Non-Fiction:
Black Boy (American Hunger), Richard Wright
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, Amir D. Aczel
Language in Thought and Action, S.I. Hayakawa
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, Constance Hale

Most Hate-Worthy Books:
The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
       (Bored me out of my skull.)
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
       (Excuse me while I vomit. The “heroine” of this novel makes me sick. This is a
        male chauvinist’s romance novel. Hemingway, I do not like you. You have a character 
        on Celebrity Deathmatch coming up soon. I hope you die … in the rain.)
Lost in the Cosmos, Walker Percy
       (Percy is a know-it-all who tries too hard to sound philosophical. Even for an English 
        major with a fascination in philosophy (like myself), he thinks too much in metaphors.
        He makes about 2 memorable points in his book, the rest is erudite blather designed to
        fool the masses into thinking they don’t know anything.)

Favorite Movies:
American History X
Casshern
Chasing Amy
Dead Poet's Society
Death to Smoochy
Dogma
The Emporer’s New Groove
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Girl Interrupted
Interview with the Vampire
It’s a Wonderful Life
Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2
Labyrinth
The Last Temptation of Christ
A League of Their Own
The Lion King
The Lord of the Rings (whole trilogy)
The Matrix (whole trilogy)
Memento
Minority Report
Monty Python: Quest for the Holy Grail
Office Space
Patch Adams
Pirates of the Caribbean
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
The Shawshank Redemption
Shaolin Soccer
Shrek
Toy Story
Toys
The Truman Show


SURVEY

Nicknames:
   from birth - banana. 
   from junior high - webby.
   from high school - ann, evil # 5, supatight, da duck, the one who breaks
      everything, and the scapgoat of the world (ok, the last two weren’t
      really nicknames, but they were my reputations)
   from college - Sam (i could explain, but you'd worry for my sanity)

MBTI type: INTP (introverted, intuitive, thinking perciever)

Major: English (but also strongly interested in philosophy and psychology)

Current Projects and Hobbies: my weblog, learning more html, gathering ideas 
for "scary stories", compiling my own dictionary of cool words, searching for
more great music

Strengths: extremely analytical, intelligent, inquisitive/curious, 
knowledgable about a decent range of ideas and activies, very independent, 
open-minded and accepting of people, decent at "reading" people, good 
selective-memory skills ;-), will help anyone who asks whenever possible, 
willing to learn about almost anything, extremely morally motivated in behavior

Weaknesses: *extremely* analytical, overly self-involved, occasionally 
oblivious, indecisiveness, insecurity, being chicken, prone to second-guessing 
myself, letting stress get to me, indulging in unnecessary guilt, judging 
people too quickly, thinking I know everything, difficulty in admitting ignorance

What is your single biggest fear?: Lack of independence.

What's your sign?: Libra
(Which means I sway back and forth in an effort to achieve balance.)

If you could have any job, what would it be?: A writer, both of fiction 
and expository stuff. Possibly journalistic, but the deadlines would be a problem.

Glass half full or half empty?: Like a friend of mine told me, "It's just a 
half a glass of water!"

What screen saver is on your computer right now?: The scrolling marquee: 
"Opportunity knocks ......... temptation knocks the door down."

If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?:  
My inability to act on things.

Ever been in love?: Not the "real thing", but the infatuations I get are pretty
terrible. When I fall, I fall too damn hard.

Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?: Nope. I'm chronically single.

Wanted to hook up with a friend: Those are the ONLY guys I fall for. Honestly, I
can't even really get interested in sometime till I get to know them pretty well. "At sight" 
has only happened twice.

Dumper or Dumpee: Um, does telling wanna-be relationship options that you're not
interested in them count as being a "dumper"? I mean, you really have to be IN a 
relationship before you can really choose either of these options. Oh well.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years: A successful writer of a series of preteens' 
ghost stories and at least one novel, plus some other writing exercises that I get payed for. 
Possibly married, but maybe not. I'm in no hurry, and I want to travel first (partly for my 
own experience and chance to goof off, and partly to learn how people and the world and 
language work better. That way, I'll be a much more knowledgable writer. :-)) I'd like to 
have done some acting outside of school too, as well as some backstage work. Most importantly, 
though, I want to be a FORMER waitress.