Susan Ray

James I. O'Neill HS, Penn State, Binghamton University

graduate student (English Lit)

travel (when financies allow), reading books that haven't been assigned, bike riding, open mic nights, lame stuff like that

When I was little my favorite book was The Last Unicorn (Peter S. Beagle); Others include Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac); Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray); The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire); Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte); Awakenings (Kate Chopin); Sonnets from the Portuguese (Elizabeth Barrett Browning); Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Byron); Henry &; June (Anais Nin); The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett); really interested in banned books of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

A huge fan of spaghetti Westerns, and Tombstone is my all time favorite movie! Also up there are "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, " "Notorious, " "Billy Madison, " and just about any horror film

I should defer to my brother ... he always rips on me for my taste in music, plus I haven't purchased a CD in three years or so ... but I love Jack Johnson, Tori Amos, B.B. King, Goo Goo Dolls, The Killers, Dashboard Confessional, Jeff Buckley, Guns 'N Roses, and just about anything classical

Law & Order junkie, South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy

Let's see ... I'm an Army brat, went to High School in Highland Falls/Ft. Montgomery, NY, then went to Penn State, then spent two crazy years living with Nada and Suzie in NYC. Eventually I realized that working as a lunch bitch (aka administrative assistant) in Manhattan wasn't my lifetime dream and am back in school earning my MA in English Literature. Next steps will hopefully be earning my PhD and becoming a professor. What else ... I have two younger brothers; Kyle's at SUNY Albany and Adam's an undergraduate here so I get to see him a lot. I got married in June (I met Craig in Georgia in 2003, we started dating when he got back from Iraq, and now we're one of those content, boring married couples living on Riverside Drive in Binghamton).

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