Floridian born and bred, I'm a college senior majoring in English Literature and minoring in Anthropology. I'm planning on attending grad school for Library Science, at which point I will revert from the current contact lenses to some career-appropriate cateye glasses.
I love the written word, power metal, cats, human evolutionary theory, mashed potatoes, an Italian boy, and my home state.
In my spare time I read, chill with my Pepys, write, work on my tinnitus, cashier at a deli, correct strangers' grammar, diss Noam Chomsky, and defend Thomas Hardy.
My passion is ...
knowledge.
I know too much about ...
Star Wars, human evolution, and Victorians.
My parents always told me ...
'get your nose out of that book!'
My childhood ambition ...
Art teacher.
My favorite memory ...
Living in London with my best friend.
Why I write ...
because I can't do anything else.
What I am reading/watching/listening to ...
E.M. Forster, Joss Whedon, and Conception.
My first job ...
movie theatre concession stand.
My best moment ...
has yet to occur.
My inspiration ...
everyday life.
Okay, so, remember the part where I wrote that Joss Whedon is God? Yeah. Totally, completely, eternally reaffirmed by his new project, the online miniseries of Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. I mean really. Stars everyone's favorite prepubescent M.D., Neil Patrick Harris, and Nathan Fillion, best thing from Canada since maple syrup? Check! Supervillain wannabes, evil horses, homeless folks, jerkwad superheroes, Fake Thomas Jeffersons, groupies, and laundromats? Check! Quintessentially Whedonesque one-liners and staging (see especially "THESE are not the hammer" and tiny cue cards)? Check! M...
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