Jamie

maven

Affiliate THIS, sucka.

reading, movies, television, cooking, drinking, hanging out with my friends, shoes, museums, making lists (and a copy of the list, in case anything happens to the first list), eating, day-dreaming

british children's fantasy (Carroll, Rowling, Pullman, Lewis), John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Tom Robbins, CS Lewis, smart chick lit, but only between real books, reference books. Some favorites: The Dictionary of Difficult Words, Brave New World, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Poisonwood Bible, The Life of Pi, Jitterbug Perfume, Till We Have Faces, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia, Blue Like Jazz, all things Harry Potter, The Tipping Point, books about comparitive religion, Entertainment Weekly, The Time Traveler's Wife, His Dark Materials, The Stand

LA Confidential, Life is Beautiful, The Godfather, It's a Wonderful Life, Singin' in the Rain, Angels in America, 12 Monkeys, Vanilla Sky, Minority Report, The Way We Were, Big Fish (anything by Tim Burton), the Sound of Music, Moulin Rouge, That Thing You Do!, Hard Day's Night, Back to the Future, When Harry Met Sally, The American President, Indiana Jones, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

the Beatles, Rat Pack, Elton John, british invasion, Todd Rundgren, Old 97s, Billy Joel, Van Morrison, Ella Fitzgerald, Rilo Kiley, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Broadway show tunes, folk

Sex & the City, Alias, 24, Lost, the Amazing Race, Friends, The West Wing, Arrested Development, House, Inside the Actor's Studio, Gilmore Girls, The Daily Show, old eps of the X-Files and Quantum Leap, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, whatever comes on HBO at 9pm on Sunday nights, Dr. Who, Heroes, What About Brian, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Eureka, the 4400, My Boys, The Food Network (Giada, Alton, Ina, Mario, and Rachel, but only her 30-minute show), Bones, House, and of course, the best show on television- BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

I'm just a girl... sassy, but not prissy. I think "dressing up" means putting on high heels and a blazer with my jeans and t-shirt. I don't like to be pegged or generalized. I like intelligent people who make me laugh. I like to laugh. I think the world is mostly good and when it's not, the best place you can be is in the arms of a friend.

I really like: coffee, martinis, expensive shoes, sushi, Shakespeare, thrift stores, Texas, the smell of soap, my iPod, all-day lipstick, vodka, quirky people, traveling, brushing my teeth in the shower, New York City, post-it notes, magazines, NPR, olives, crossword puzzles, buying presents for my friends, Bethesda Fountain, clean sheets, potato chips, taking the train, and being woken up by someone I actually want to talk to.

I really hate: bell peppers, white shoes, raisins, snobs, waiting, dirty dishes in the sink, people wearing their polo color up, the font Comic Sans MS, wasting food, being called "James," voice-automated customer service numbers, clowns, daytime television, blue M&M's, diet Pepsi, improper grammar, hotel hangers, rude waiters, and people who are rude to waiters.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen.