About Me

  • About Me: "...I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible." -Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: The Princess Bride, The Village, Much Ado About Nothing, Elizabethtown, Serenity,
  • Favorite Actors: Alan Rickman, Kenneth Bragnah, Sean Bean, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet,
  • Favorite Soundtracks: "The Village", "A Series of Unfortuante Events", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Cowboy Bebop",
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Ni! Ni! Ni!" ; "It's called a lance, 'ello?!?!"
  • Movies I can watch over and over: The Princess Bride
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Kate Winslet ;D

College

  • School Name: New Saint Andrews College
  • Status: Undergrad
  • Class of: 2011
  • Major(s): Liberal Arts and Culture

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Don't you dare call me "Katie"
  • Nationality: American
  • Religion: Reformed Presbyterian
  • Interests: The beauty of our Saviour and the Story, the Old Testament, Reading everything I can lay my hands on. My favorite authors are: C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, Peter Leithart, Baroness Orczy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte, Gene Stratton Porter, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Sophocles, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Lemony Snicket, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Eco (in no particular order) The Victorians fascinate me. Guess who my favorite poet is... I'm currently a freshman at New Saint Andrews College...the most awesome college in the world (apart from Oxford, that is...) And I'm overly fond of elipses. ...
  • Expertise: Singing the Gloria Patri in *any* key
  • Occupation: Student

Music

  • Favorite Artists: Nickel Creek, Alison Krauss, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, The Proclaimers, U2, Evanescence, Rush, Moby, Five for Fighting
  • Favorite Albums: Best of the 1980-90s - U2; All three Nickel Creek albums; Best of Simon and Garfunkel; Best of the Proclaimers
  • Favorite Genre: Newgrass...or Classic Rock...Techno...and Oldies!!! Whoops, that's more than one...
  • Favorite Songs: Yellow Submarine and Paperback Writer - The Beatles; Closer to the Heart - Rush; Mysterious Ways - U2; Cowboy Take Me Away - The Dixie Chicks, This Side -Nickel Creek ...and everything listed in the "repeated most" section and much much more...
  • Favorite Lyrics: "...All right you can get a cat just as long as it barks..." Let's Get Married - The Proclaimers
  • Songs I hate: Most everything that falls under R&B
  • Guilty Pleasure: Lou Bega...and the Black Eyed Peas
  • Songs I repeat the most: Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional, Tank! - Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts, More than a Feeling - Boston, When in Rome - Nickel Creek, Gone - Switchfoot, 500 Miles - The Proclaimers, Castles in the Sky - Ian Van Dahl and Marsha
  • Band I wish I was in: Nickel Creek

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Chinese
  • Favorite Dishes: Red Beans and Rice, Kung Pao Chicken, pasta salads, hot soups, chicken caesar salad, pizza,
  • Favorite Desserts: Anything involving chocolate...and/or raspberries
  • Favorite Drinks: Water, Cranberry Juice, Lemonade Coke, and Red Bull (if I'm being REALLY BAD)
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Hot and Spicy Cheezits
  • Favorite Restaurants: Chick-fil-a, Casablanca, Jade Palace,
  • Foods I hate: Baked Beans, Oatmeal, anything involving hot tuna and noodles...ewww

Travel

  • Places I love: Chatanooga!
  • Places I've been: Hawaii and the Marshall Islands are the only "exotic" places I've been...I'm going to Cozumel in April!!
  • Places to see before I die: The British Isles, France, India
  • Dream Vacation: Just move me to England...

Television

  • Favorite Shows: Lost and Numb3rs
  • Favorite Reruns: Good Neighbors, Are You Being Served?, I Love Lucy, Northern Exposure, Firefly
  • Most Addictive Show: Lost
  • Favorite Episode: The episode when Sawyer gets glasses...can't remember what it's called...::evil chuckle in remembrance::
  • Characters you relate to: Tom and Barbara Good, Kaylee Fry
  • Favorite Theme Song: Cowboy Bebop - "Tank!"
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Firefly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ::sobs uncontrollably::

Books

  • Favorite Authors: C.S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, Jane Austen, P.G. Wodehouse, Peter Leithart, Baroness Orczy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte, Gene Stratton Porter, Charles Dickens, A. A. Milne, Wilkie Collins, Sophocles, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Jordan, J.K. Rowling,
  • Favorite Genres: Mystery and Fantasy
  • Favorite Characters: Benedict, Lord Peter Wimsey, Anne Shirley, Elaine (The Lady of Shalott), Sherlock Holmes, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Redcross and Una, Severus Snape, Eeyore,
  • Favorite Quotes: "I were but little happy if I could say how much." ~ Much Ado About Nothing
  • Recent Reads: "The Literary Offences of Fenimore Cooper" by Mark Twain, The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin, Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce