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I could spend an entire afternoon laying on a park bench reading Rainer Maria Rilke or Walt Whitman, and in fact, from time to time that's where I'd be long after my British Modernism class ended. Unfortunately, half the time it was not on purpose. I just get absorbed in words, literature, ideas, sounds, sometimes. I also have a decent grasp on the mechanics of language as well, which is part of the reason why I chose to teach high school English. I begin my Master of Arts in Teaching program June 5, 2006 and this time next year I'll be applying for teaching positions.

An hour is never enough time to fully browse and absorb a yarn store, so don't let me fool you by saying I need to make a "quick stop" by CitySide Yarn or whatever yarn store is at hand. I walk in and the soft and slightly scratchiness of lamb's wool taunts me. The alpaca spun finely with a little silk will have me swooning. And the colors. Oh, the colors! When I walk into a yarn store, I'm not walking in there like I'd walk into a hardware store or a stationary store -- all business. Nope. When I walk into a yarn store my imagination takes off and I am envisioning scarves and socks and wraps and nose warmers and tea cozies (which are FRICKEN' AWESOME) and sweaters and bags and belts and afghans and innumberable other wondrous creations. Addicted to knitting? Nah.

I'm also fairly practical to balance my swooning habits over literature and fiber. I'm way to organized for my or my fiances good (he claims I "hide" things on him all the time) and I tend to spend half of my time at home tidying and stacking and sorting and tossing and wiping. But then again, most women do. And you know what? I really don't mind.

Ok, so what else can I tell you to possibly make you go running for the hills? Ah, I like foreign films, anime, non-translated literature (that's right, reading Don Quixote in SPANISH), and spending time tending to my house plants, flowers, herbs and vegetables.

I bug my partner relentlessy for a puppy, too. "Someday," he says. "Sunday?" I ask. "No, someday," he says.

LISTS OF STUFF I LIKE OR DO OR THINK TOTALLY ROCKS


Favorite Color: Green

Favorite Animal(s): Mini-Lops, Irish Setters, Beagles, Springer Spaniels, Ocicats, Alpacas, Sheep, Ducks

Favorite Kinds of Music: Jazz (bebop, chicago, and gypsy), early 90's grunge & rock, R&B, instrumental classical

Favorite foods: white pizza, homemade alfredo, annie's shells and cheese, allan's shell soup, and 60 Park St House Salads

Favorite places to go/be: libraries, The Barnacle in Gouldsboro Bay, The Asticou Garden in North East Harbor, anywhere on the coast

Web Comics I read: Wapsi Square, Diesel Sweeties, Girls with Slingshots, Megatokyo, Copper, A Softer World, Dinosaur Comics, Girly, It's Walky, Normal Life, PvP, VG Cats, Questionable Content (more to come)

Films/Movies/Flicks: Donnie Darko, Hero, Twin Falls Idaho, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mallrats, Audition, Magnolia, Requiem for a Dream, May, the Crow, Spring Summer Fall Winter ... And Spring, Blue Spring, Totoro, Sin City (more to come)

TV Shows (on DVD): Invader Zim, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2020, Haibane Renmei, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Akira, Neia_7, Azumanga Daioh (more to come)

Authors: David Eddings, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, Daniel Quinn, Anne McCaffrey, Ayn Rand, China Mieville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anita Diamant, Rudyard Kipling, C. S. Lewis, Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, Dante, Milton, Jorge Luis Borges, Ezra Pound, Voltaire, Roland Barthes, Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Wilde, the Brontes (Charlotte, Emily, Anne), Cervantes, Shakespeare, Kipling, Willa Cather, Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Douglas Adams, Gertrude Stein (to name a few)

Poets: Brian Kim Stefans, Alice Notley, Robert Creeley, Robin Blaser, e. e. cummings, Jayne Cortez, Marianne Moore, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Audre Lorde (more to come)

Books: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Ishmael, the Iliad, The Italian, A Room with a View, The Stranger, The Redemption of Althalus, The Art of War, Madame Bovary, Lolita, Inkspell, Wizard's First Rule, Polgara, (more to come)

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