[Stats & Stuff]:

• Current Location: California
• Place of Employment: Library
• Pets: One kitty - Daphne (I miss you, Dawn and Midnight), One dog - Shasta
• Enjoyments: traveling, reading, photography, creating websites, tv shows, movies, spending time with good friends & my family
• Favorite Places: San Francisco, Venice, Paris, Disneyland, New York City, Chicago, Ashland
• Sports teams: San Francisco Giants, San Francisco 49ers, San Jose Sharks
  

[Books/Authors]:

• Authors/Playwrights: Jane Austen, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Christopher Golden, Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Madeleine L'Engle, Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling, William Shakespeare, Tom Stoppard, J.R.R. Tolkien

• Books: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine trilogy, Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Ian Falconer's Olivia books, Christopher Golden's Body of Evidence series, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Madeleine L'Engle's A Ring of Endless Light, and A Wrinkle in Time, C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, (in the original order) Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, Dr. Seuss's The Lorax, Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice, Kay Thompson's Eloise, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

• Plays: Howard Brenton and David Hare's "Pravda," Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House," Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," Shakespeare's "As You Like It," Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead," Thornton Wilder's "Our Town"

[TV shows]:

• The Best: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files

• Dramas: Bones, Castle, CSI, CSI: NY, Dollhouse, FlashForward, Friday Night Lights, Greek, House, Leverage, Lost, Mad Men, Make it or Break it, The Mentalist, True Blood

• Comedies: 30 Rock, Chuck, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Glee, Modern Family, The Office, Psych

• Sci-Fi / Fantasies: Doctor Who, Eureka, Fringe, Supernatural, Torchwood, V, Warehouse 13

• Dearly Departed: Alias, Angel, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, Charmed, Cupid, Dead Like Me, Farscape, Firefly, Friends, Gilmore Girls, Keen Eddie, The Lone Gunmen, The Middleman, My So-Called Life, Now and Again, Pushing Daisies, Roswell, Sports Night, Stargate: Atlantis, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls

[Movies]:

• Classics: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Great Race, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Laura, The Manchurian Candidate, The Philadelphia Story, Singin' in the Rain, The Sound of Music, To Kill a Mockingbird

• Dramas: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The English Patient, Ever After, Hamlet, L.A. Confidential, Moulin Rouge, Pulp Fiction, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Seabiscuit, The Usual Suspects

• Comedies: The Blues Brothers, The Breakfast Club, Bridget Jones's Diary, Dogma, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, A Fish Called Wanda, Legally Blonde, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Muppet Movie, Ocean's Eleven, Shakespeare in Love, Sixteen Candles

• Sci-Fi/Fantasies: Back to the Future Trilogy, Dark City, Harry Potter series, Labyrinth, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Princess Bride, Serenity, Star Trek, Star Wars Trilogy

• Animated: Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Finding Nemo, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Toy Story + Toy Story 2, Wall-E

[Actors/Actresses]:

• The Best: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn

• Actresses: Amy Acker, Amy Adams, Gillian Anderson, Kristen Bell, Amber Benson, Jennifer Connelly, Felicia Day, Jennifer Garner, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Lauren Graham, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Katharine Hepburn, Felicity Huffman, Nicole Kidman, Mary McDonnell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Emma Thompson, Liv Tyler, Kate Winslet, Reese Witherspoon

• Actors: Jensen Ackles, Christian Bale, Paul Bettany, Humphrey Bogart, Nicholas Brendon, Kyle Chandler, Bradley Cooper, Hugh Dancy, Alexis Denisof, Johnny Depp, David Duchovny, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nathan Fillion, Colin Firth, Jon Hamm, Damian Lewis, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Clive Owen, Kevin Spacey, James Stewart, Donnie Wahlberg, Denzel Washington

[Music]:

• The Best:
  Band - The Beatles
  Songs - U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", Beatles' "Hey Jude"
  Album - Pink Floyd's "The Wall"

• Bands: Arcade Fire, Coldplay, Common Rotation, Dave Matthews Band, Guster, Oasis, Pink Floyd, R.E.M. Rilo Kiley, Simon & Garfunkel, U2, The Who

• Solo Acts: David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Imogen Heap, Jem, Billy Joel, Elton John, Norah Jones, Jenny Lewis, John Mayer, Sarah McLachlan, Jason Mraz, Duncan Sheik, Rufus Wainwright, Yo-Yo Ma

• Composers: J.S. Bach, Christophe Beck, Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, Bear McCreary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, John Williams

• Radio Stations: 97.3, 97.7, 98.5, 104.9, 105.3, 106.5

[EKT Facts]:

• "Innocence" is my all time favorite BtVS episode. "Restless" is a close second.
• My favorite book of all time is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
• My favorite Shakespeare plays are "Hamlet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
• My favorite of the Harry Potter books are Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows.
• I love to travel and would especially like to see more of Europe, but can't afford it as often as I would like.
• I adore Disneyland and have an annual pass, even though I live in Northern California.
• I have a personalized license plate on my car that is BtVS related.
• I can live without coffee in the morning, but I can't live without orange juice.
• The top of my printer is adorned by Albus of the Frickin' Chicken Brigade.
• I have a metal rod and four pins in the middle of my tibia bone in my right leg (thanks to a broken leg when I was 15).
• I'm a Democrat. I'm pro-choice. I support gay marriage.
• I have 14 blood-related aunts & uncles, and a whole lot of cousins.
• I love living in a big city. I really don't think I would enjoy living in a rural city/town. I do enjoy visiting them though.
• My family and friends are the most important parts of my life.
• I've been creating websites since early 1999. I started with a small & very crappy personal site on Earthlink.
• Susan and I coined the term "EKT"... here's the explanation of it from my blog: EKT is slang for the word random. It was made up by Susan and I (and used most faithfully by Little Willow, who rocks for picking it up) at PBP 2003. The reasoning behind it is that while wandering around towards the ballroom at the American Legion Hall, we were passed by none other than Eddie Kaye Thomas. We were so surprised to see him there (because, as far as we knew, he had no connection to BtVS, Angel or Firefly) that we decided we would refer to anything random as "Eddie Kaye Thomas." This was later shortened (I think by Little Willow) to EKT since "Eddie Kaye Thomas" was a bit too much to say and/or type. We did later discover that Eddie Kaye Thomas actually had reason for being at PBP: He was helping to film a documentary for Adam Busch's band, Common Rotation.

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