a little bit about myself:

I am a 24-year-old chick from Portland, Oregon. I am working at a phone store place thing while simultaneously going to PCC for an Associate's Degree in Network Administration. I like writing poetry and (believe it or not) essays/theses. I actually think they are fun.

I am currently in a state of writer's block.

I love:

anything regarding magic (not necessarily wicca stuff, though... not my bag)
Sherlock (BBC version)
Some Moriarty stuff (BBC version)
Michael Jackson (and yes, he was/is innocent, end of story)
Celtic stuff
writing poetry
compiling funny lists from the net
angel food cake
surfing the net
Gone With the Wind, (book and movie)
The Fountainhead
Ender's Game

I do NOT love:
spiders
needles (vaccine kind)
beets
overcooked veggies
getting up after 9am (I feel robbed of my morning)
being cut off from the net
those evil people who sit behind you in class and jiggle your chair the whole time and then get really ticked when you ask them nicely to stop it

Literary Characters I Am In Love With:

Sydney Carton
Jean-Claude
George
Numair

Other characters I love:

BBC's Sherlock, (Moriarty a wee bit, too, but I won't readily admit it)

I think the lyrics American Pie and Big Rock Candy Mountain are awesome and the lyrics to Vincent are beautiful.

and I promise to spell-check everything before uploading it... reviews are always welcome, including flames, (I figure if it sucks, I ought to know)

Quotes I like:

"There is such a thing as manners. A way of treating people. These fish have manners. These fish have manners. In fact, they are coming with me. I'm starting a new company, and these fish, they are coming with me."

Jerry Maguire

“So, are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle for eternity until Judgment Day and trumpets sound?”
“Or you could surrender.”
Pirates of the Caribbean

“The Lord says He thinks he can get me outta this, but he’s pretty sure you’re *ed.”

Braveheart

“…but the one thing they love, more than a hero, is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you’ve done for them, eventually, they will hate you.”
Spider-Man

"He knows a hero when he sees one. Too few characters out there, flying around like that, saving old girls like me. And Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people. Setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."

Spider-Man 2

"There he goes. One of god's own prototypes. Some sort of high-powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, too rare to die."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"Consider the lilies of the goddamn field."

O, Brother Where Art Thou

From The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand:

"It's the Parthenon!" said the Dean.
"Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!"
..."Look," said Roark. "The famous flutings on the famous columns what are they for? to hide the joints in wood when columns were made of wood, only these aren't, they're marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters if the Rennaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?"

He explained what he wanted, spreading upon the still air of the room one short, concise, complete paragraph of thought, perfect as a gem with clean edges.

"Every loneliness is a pinnacle."

"Three quarters of them don't know what it's all about, but they've head the other one quarter fighting over your name and so now they feel they must pronounce it with respect. Of the fighting quarter, four-tenths are those who hate you, three-tenths are those who feel they must express an opinion in any controversy, two-tenths are those who play it safe and herald any 'discovery,' and one-tenth are those who understand..."

"Michael Layton had inherited a quarter of a billion dollars and had spent the thirty-three years of his life trying to make amends for it."

"...If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others."

"Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man."

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

A River Runs Through It

From Ender's Game
"How old is Peter? Fourteen? and already trying to take over the world?" (message on everyone's desk) "COVER YOUR BUTT. BERNARD IS WATCHING.
-GOD" "'Everyone knows that the system automatically puts on the name of the sender.'
'I didn't write that!' Bernard said.
'Shouting?' asked Dap.
'Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD,' Bernard said.
'Really?' said Dap. 'I didn't know he was signed onto the system.'

by the way, I like bob dylan's music and am in the process of writing a song to rival the randomness of his own. the title will be "no matter how hard I try, I can never outrun your love" it will contain the line "like a spoon in a microwave". I will put it here when I finish it.