About Me:

I'm a twenty-something PhD student in archaeology (the European Bronze Age) hiding from the real world in both academia and fiction. Archaeology and ancient history are absolute passions of mine, and I'm sure those will crop up in my stories. I tend to write in spurts, especially when I have a plotline fall into my head instead of working on my thesis- hey, it's happened. Sometimes I'd rather live in the worlds I create than do real work! Oh, and if anyone's interested, my penname means "daughter of a star", from Gaelic and Hebrew. Come visit me over at wordpress, where I'm writingforanemptymind (link above)! I've recently begun editing and moving my stories over there, along with new stories not yet on fanfiction.

Favourite Things in no particular order:

TV shows: NCIS, Supernatural, Castle, Sherlock, Bones, In Plain Sight, Chuck, Doctor Who, Firefly, Numb3rs, Relic Hunter, Burn Notice, Veronica Mars, Dark Angel, Crossing Jordan

Movies: Keeping Mum, Classics like Father Goose and How to Steal a Million, Star Wars IV-VI, Stargate (any and all), Serenity, Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones I-IV, The Mummy I-II (Are you sensing the sci-fi/archaeology trend?)

Books: Oh where to start? The Sherlock Holmes canon, Persuasion, Laurie R. King's Mary Russell kanon, A Wrinkle in Time and the whole Time Quartet, Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence, James Joyce, Charlaine Harris, Diana Wynne Jones, Dune, Daniel Silva, MaryJanice Davidson, pretty much anything that I can get my hands on

Pairings in my stories tend to be canon (or canon subtext), as I latch on to certain personalities and defend them rabidly!

Fav Quotes- What kind of profile would this be if I didn't include some of my favourite snarky lines?

Serenity:

Wash: This landing is gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?

Mal: Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. to Inara Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.

Crossing Jordan:

Woody: Stay in the car.
Jordan: What exactly in our past makes you think I'll do that?

Woody: Any way to tell her age from the autopsy?
Bug: Sure, I'll just cut her open and count the rings.
Woody: You could have simply said no.

Stargate SG-1 -Gotta love the Jackisms!

Jack: I hope you like Guinness, sir. It's a perfect substitute for... food.

Jack: Do you read the Bible, Teal'c?
Teal'c: It is a significant part of your Western culture. Have you not read the Bible, O'Neill?
Jack: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Not all of it. Actually, I'm listening to it on tape. Don't tell me how it ends.

Jack: It's time for Plan B.
Sam: We have a Plan B?
Jack: No, but it's time for one.

Indiana Jones:

Indy: Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Doctor Who:

Charles Dickens: Oh, my... I hope this theory is validated... soon. Almost instantly, in fact.

Rose: But they've got guns!
The Doctor: Yes, and I haven't. That makes me the better person. They can shoot me dead, but the moral high ground is mine!

The Doctor: Brave choice, celery. But, fair play to you, not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable.

The Doctor: Come on! We can have a good flirt later!
Shakespeare: Is that a promise, Doctor?
The Doctor: Oh, fifty-seven academics just punched the air.