Erin Beale

Damascus High, Attended 1994 - 1998, Class of 1998

Towson University, Attended 1998 - 2002, Class of 2002, Bachelor's Degree, English/History

Writer/Editor/Stock Picker

The Catcher in the Rye, The Awakening, The Great Gatsby, (hmmm, must break the "The" theme here), anything Jane Austen, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Louise Erdrich, Bill Bryson, John Grisham, The DaVinci Code, Danielle Steel (but only at the beach), Presidential biographies, She's Come Undone, To Kill a Mockingbird, DH Lawrence, god can't think of anymore off the top of my head. Right now I'm reading (and have been for quite a while) the book by the rock climbing guy who got stuck in a canyon and eventually had to cut his own arm off, its pretty good so far.

Ok, here's where my sappy girliness coming shining through--the Sound of Music is my all-time favorite, followed by Gone With the Wind and It's A Wonderful Life... of course every cheesy Julia Roberts movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Kill a Mockingbird, Can't Hardly Wait, all Brat Pack movies, Elf, Home Alone, god I don't know, too many more to list.

Complete and udder randomness. You can find Britney Spears, Led Zepplin, Beethoven, Patsy Cline, Sublime, Tori Amos, Sarah Brightman, Wu-Tang, Frank Sinatra and Pearl Jam all living harmoniously side-by-side in my huge-ass CD cases. To name a few. Really lovin Rachel Yamagata right now, and Jamie Cullum.

The norm girl shows--Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Friends, Seinfeld, anything on Nick at Nite, all those damn MTV and VH1 shows that I can't make myself stop watching... over and over and over... the Iron Chef, Regis and Kelly (when I'm "sick" or "working from home"), Dawson's Creek, that Japanese show where the guys do all the weird stunts and the American guys do hilarious voice over commentary, Trading Spaces.