About Me

  • About Me: "Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it." ~Samuel Johnson

More About Me

  • Nationality: American (unfortunately)
  • Religion: I have one
  • Interests: decorating, painting, quality literature, Russian romanticism, wildflowers, writing literature papers, crocheting, knitting, Woody Allen movies, singing, coffee, listening to people talk, quilting, taking long walks under the dark cover of night, watching people, traveling, Mikhail Bakhtin, walking in snow up to my knees, wading in the ocean, philosophy graduate students.
  • Expertise: Writing papers. Studying people intently (and remembering faces). Pretending that I know what I'm doing . . . especially when I don't. Overhearing people talk when they don't realize that I'm listening. Remembering needless facts. Obsessive cleaning. Conversing with aquatic life. Sniffing out Soviet spies. Making craft projects out of spare office supplies.
  • Occupation: Writer-lead office associate-editor-wife
  • Industry: writing-editing-design-napping
  • Website: http://www.xanga.com/braveboldbeautiful_One

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Blind Assassin, Anna Karenina, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, Love in the Time of Cholera, Lolita, Catch-22, Silence, Notes From Underground, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Slaughterhouse 5, The Crying of Lot 49, Great Expectations, Bleak House, War and Peace, Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Favorite Authors: Charles Dickens, C. S. Lewis, Vladimir Nabokov, Coetzee, Plato, Tolstoy, Margaret Atwood, Neil Postman, Langston Hughes, Bill Bryson
  • Favorite Genres: Harlem Renaissance, Postmodern, Epic Poetry, realistic fiction, Russian romanticism
  • Favorite Characters: Pnin, Yossarian, Levin, Ester Summerson
  • Recent Reads: Guns, Germs, and Steel; Martin Chuzzlewit

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Good Will Hunting, Hitch, The Good Shepherd, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fiddler on the Roof, Fight Club, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, other Woody Allen movies, documentaries
  • Favorite Actors: Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Woody Allen, Emma Thompson, Nicole Kidman
  • Favorite Directors: Woody Allen
  • Favorite Genre: Drama
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Wild

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Indian
  • Favorite Dishes: Saag Paneer, stroganoff, Chana Paneer, homemade pizza, cheesecake, ice cream
  • Favorite Desserts: pumpkin cheesecake, cookiedough anything, brownies, mom's pie
  • Favorite Drinks: coffee and tea (milk, no sugar), water, grape juice, vanilla lattes, frappachinos (of all kinds)
  • Favorite Junk Foods: desserts, chips (of all kinds) with dips
  • Best meal ever: Saag Paneer and Chana Paneer with sweet potato casserole, Asiago bread, and pumpkin cheesecakes
  • My Original Recipes: lots of them
  • Favorite Restaurants: BP's Mongolian Grill, Starbucks, the Taj (in Mishawaka), The Cheesecake Factory
  • Foods I hate: processed and boxed foods

Travel

  • Places I love: Russia; Maine; Rome; Finland; Greenfield, IN; Athens, OH
  • Places I've been: Italy (Rome and Florence), France (Paris), Russia (St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Moscow), Finland (Helsinki), almost every state, Canada
  • Places to see before I die: Latvia, Austraila, Antarctica, every other country that I haven't been to
  • Dream Vacation: a leisurely East Coast tour with lots of walking: getting up with the sun and clambering over coastal rocks; eating fresh seafood; reading books in the crisp salty breeze, hair whipping about in a very disorderly fashion; wading in frigid water; wearing capris and long sleeves in the summer; sand

College

  • School Name: Bethel College
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 2008
  • Attended: 2004 - 2008
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): English-Literature track

High School

  • School Name: Penn High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 2004
  • Attended: 2000 - 2004
  • Organizations: SADD, Freshmen Mentoring, Salt 'N Light, Spectrum, NHS

Contact Info

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