Television

  • Favorite Shows: The Office, Little House on the Prairie, The Simpsons, My Name is Earl, Friends
  • Favorite Reruns: Little House..., The Cosby Show
  • Show I Secretly Watch: America's Next Top Model, What Not to Wear
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Firefly, Arrested Development

More About Me

  • Religion: Christian
  • Heroes: Grandma Brown
  • Interests: nature, theatre, film, reading, running, hiking, history, English culture, music, art, crafts, cooking/baking, and sewing
  • Expertise: being ridiculous, Boggle, making beds, making bread

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian, Peter Bjorn & John, Death Cab for Cutie, R.E.M., The Killers, Iron & Wine, Gabriel Faure, Feist
  • Favorite Albums: Songs for Christmas (Sufjan), Funeral (Arcade Fire), The Photo Album (Death Cab)
  • Favorite Lyrics: "My teeth chattered rhythms. And they were grouped in two or threes, like a Morse code message was sent from me, to me." --Death Cab for Cutie
  • Guilty Pleasure: Michael Jackson

Books

  • Favorite Books: Jane Eyre, The Hobbit, Pride & Prejudice, Son of Laughter, Prydain Chronicles, Chronicles of Narnia, The Princess Bride
  • Favorite Authors: Jane Austen, C.S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexander
  • Favorite Genres: classic fiction, children's literature
  • Favorite Characters: Elizabeth Bennett, Jane Eyre
  • Favorite Quotes: "She is always married too soon who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late who gets a good one." --Moll Flanders
  • Recent Reads: The Painted Veil, The Last Battle, The Princess Bride

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: All About Eve, Raising Arizona, Pride & Prejudice (A&E), Rear Window, North By Northwest, Roman Holiday, Breakfast At Tiffany's, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Painted Veil, Back to the Future trilogy, White Christmas, Amelie, The Princess Bride, It Happened One Night, Singin' In the Rain, all of the Pink Panther films except the last one, The Indiana Jones trilogy, The Great Muppet Caper, Rebecca, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Room with a View, When Harry Met Sally, Animal Crackers, Duck Soup. Basically, I LOVE classic movies--especially Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, or Hitchcock and also period films. The others are just random comedies that I happen to find delightful.
  • Favorite Actors: Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Cate Blanchett, Ewan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Sellers, Johnny Depp, Renee Zellweger, Ingrid Bergman, Anjelica Huston, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Kevin Kline
  • Favorite Directors: Hitchcock, Frank Capra, Tim Burton, Billy Wilder, Blake Edwards
  • Favorite Genre: comedy

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Asian, Mexican, Greek
  • Favorite Dishes: As far as individual items: homemade pizza, spaghetti pie, German pumpernickel bread, feta cheese, avocados, hummus, artichoke hearts, pomegranates, red raspberries. I just love fruit in general.
  • Favorite Desserts: strawberry milkshakes, brownies
  • Favorite Junk Foods: It's not junk! Stacy's Simply Naked Pita Chips, Swiss or German chocolate, preferably dark.
  • Best meal ever: Anything my mom makes, but especially her homemade pizza.
  • Favorite Restaurants: I don't typically enjoy eating out, but I do love Mojo Burrito, Aretha Frankenstein's, and The Mudpie
  • Foods I hate: seafood

Travel

  • Places I love: National Parks, historic sites. Basically, relaxing in nature or dabbling in history.
  • Places to see before I die: British Isles, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, France, Greece
  • Dream Vacation: A lengthy tour of the British Isles