Style

  • Where I shop: Volunteers of America, Rag O' Rama
  • I like to wear: T-shirts, jeans and fake baby blue converse
  • Can't live without: t-shirts and jeans
  • Prized Possessions: My red Dickies, my Wonder Woman t-shirt, a black and white polyester polka dot shirt, my pink seventies housewife polyester shirt OH and my Asian black silk shirt from China Town and a pair of black satin pants with buckles on the side
  • Guilty Pleasure: funky colored nail polish for my toes

Books

  • Favorite Books: The Poisonwood Bible, Living Buddha Living Christ, Zen Mind Beginners Mind, The Zen of Creativity, The Count of Monte Christo, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Favorite Authors: Mark Twain, Thich Naht Hahn, John Daido Loori
  • Favorite Characters: Huckleberry Finn, Ada in The Poisonwood Bible, The Count of Monte Christo
  • Favorite Quotes: "People who think dying is the worst thing, don't know a thing about life." -Lilly from The Secret Life of Bees
  • Recent Reads: Into the Wild by John Krakauer

More About Me

  • Nicknames: Mitzi
  • Nationality: American
  • Religion: Zen Buddhist
  • Heroes: Maya Angelou, My Grandmother
  • Interests: Zen, Painting, Drawing, Education, The Human Brain, People
  • Expertise: Scratching private places in public or scratching pubic places in private without drawing attention to myself or using my hands.
  • Occupation: Artist/Writer/Mom
  • Industry: The Arts

Television

  • Favorite Shows: I don't watch much TV but I do watch The Office and Myth Busters
  • Favorite Reruns: British Comedy - Black Adder, Thin Blue Line
  • Most Addictive Show: 24
  • Characters you relate to: The Mother in Weeds
  • Favorite Theme Song: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go, Teen Titans, X Files
  • Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Carnivale, Dead Like Me

Travel

  • Places I love: San Francisco, Mexico Beach, the Cliffs of Moher, Dublin, Graceland
  • Places I've been: Ireland, Mexico, Canada, various US states
  • Places to see before I die: Hawaii, Thailand, China, England
  • Dream Vacation: Road Trip

Video Games

  • Games I Play: City of Heros
  • Favorite Characters: Nuha, Chinese Take Out and Spinus Christy
  • Gaming Alias: Nuha, Chinese Take Out, Spinus Christy, Red Hed Step Child
  • Favorite Classic Arcade Games: Mrs. Pac Man, Galaxia, Asteroids, Donkey Kong
  • Most Addictive: CoH

Music

  • Favorite Artists: The Pixies, Janes Addiction, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, John Lennon, Steely Dan, Cowboy Junkies, Joe Tex, Elvis, Al Green, Beta Band
  • Favorite Albums: Nothings Shocking, Breakfast in America, Let It Be, The Wall, Surfer Rosa, Soundtrack to Rushmoore, Aja,
  • Favorite Songs: Imagine, Just Another Day, Sugar In My Bowl, Listen to the Music, Let It Be, I've Just Seen a Face, Eclipse, Here Comes Your Man, Gigantic, Three Days, Jane Says, Sweet Jane, In the Basement, Trouble, Polk Salad Annie,
  • Favorite Lyrics: "I've been down, and I've been lost and found. I've been given till sundown, to get out of town." - Joe Tex "Polk Salad Annie, the gators got her Grannie. Everybody said it was a shame, that her mama was workin' on a chain gang. She was a viscious, mean, straight razor totin' woman. Lord have mercy." - Elvis
  • Songs for Roadtrips: I would make a mix of nostalgic tunes crossing all genres with a few bits of comedy here and there
  • Songs I hate: I don't know because I don't listen to them
  • Guilty Pleasure: Duran Duran, Pat Benetar
  • Band I wish I was in: The Pixies

Movies

  • Favorite Movies: Rushmoore, American Beauty, Corndog Man, The Wizard of Oz
  • Favorite Actors: Ed Norton, Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Lilly Taylor,
  • Favorite Soundtracks: Pieces of April, Garden State, Rushmoore
  • Movie Quotes I say all the time: "I couldn't be any more suprised if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet." - Chevy CHase in NL Xmas Vacation
  • Movies I can watch over and over: The Notebook, Rushmoore, The Wizard of Oz, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, When Harry Met Sally
  • Actor that would play me in a movie: Lilly Taylor

Food

  • Favorite Cuisine: Vegetarian, Greek, Italian, Mexican
  • Favorite Dishes: Nut Loaf, Beans and Rice, Lentils, Fallafel,
  • Favorite Desserts: Cookies
  • Favorite Drinks: Water, Mohito, Cabernet Savignon
  • Favorite Junk Foods: Lays Potato Chips
  • Best meal ever: Vegetarian "Skyline" 5 Way
  • My Original Recipes: Red skinned potato soup, Banana yogurt bars
  • Favorite Restaurants: Aladin's, North Star, Surly Girls
  • Foods I hate: Hamburgers, Lima beans, hot dogs

College

  • School Name: Ohio University
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1994
  • Attended: 1991 - 1994
  • Degree type: Bachelors
  • Major(s): Psychology
  • Minor(s): Fine Arts
  • Organizations: The Forum of Mod 4A

High School

  • School Name: Brookhaven High School
  • Status: Alumni
  • Class of: 1990
  • Attended: 1986 - 1990
  • Organizations: Who cares?