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About Me

About Me: single mom living in Metro DC area going to school, working, and accepting the ways of true insanity via the force

Favorite Shows: King of the Hill, The Venture Brothers, Family Guy, Iron Chef, Hell's Kitchen, 24
Favorite Channels: Style, E, Boomerang
Favorite Reruns: King of the Hill
Most Addictive Show: 24
Favorite Late Night Talk Show: I'm usually asleep
Favorite Episode: too many to name
Characters you relate to: Hank Hill, Homer Simpson
Favorite Theme Song: Fullmetal Alchemist/Samurai Champloo..it's a tie, I don't speak Japanese
Show I Secretly Watch: Meerkat Manor-there, I said it
Show I wished wasn't cancelled: Futurama

Nicknames: Cee-Cee
Nationality: Whatever the coolest one this week is
Religion: Buddhist
Heroes: um..right
Interests: photography, brazilian music, foreign languages, art, elementary education
Expertise: photography, music guru
Occupation: Office Manager
Industry: Environmental Non Profit

Where I shop: everywhere
Brands I love: Target, H & M, Old Navy, American Apparel
I like to wear: clothes
Can't live without: shoes
Prized Possessions: black editor pants from Express, any of my Old Navy Tunics
Guilty Pleasure: necklaces and rings

Favorite Artists: Bebel Gilberto, Cibelle, Prince, Dave Brubeck, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Celso Fonseca, Seu Jorge, Nujabes, Fat Jon
Favorite Albums: Tanto Tempo, Brazilian Girls, any Thievery Corporation
Favorite Genre: let's say what I don't like-Country (some) and that Heavy Metal where they scream, and those rock/rap hybrids-Linkin Park I'm lookin at you.
Favorite Songs: "Vicki Waiting" by Prince
Favorite Lyrics: Some days, some nights, some live, some die in the way of the samurai...
Songs for Roadtrips: heavy guitar-I'm thinking Hendrix
Songs I hate: "Bad Day"..."Beautiful" by that high pitched dude
Guilty Pleasure: I love Three 6 Mafia
Songs I repeat the most: Stay Fly
Band I wish I was in: I have absolutely no musical talent whatsoever.

Favorite Movies: The Samurai 7 Series, The entire library of Samurai Champloo, Series 7: The Contenders, The Duel, Unbreakable
Favorite Actors: Angelina Jolie-at times, Kurt Russell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Uma Thurman (Kill Bill)
Favorite Directors: Timur Bekmambetov, Bryan Singer, M. Night Shymalan, Alfonso Cuaron
Favorite Genre: Anything Left of Center
Favorite Soundtracks: Woman on Top
Movie Quotes I say all the time: "Game over man, game over!"
Movies I can watch over and over: Aliens, Blade Runner, anything with Fele Martinez
Actor that would play me in a movie: Naomie Harris

Favorite Cuisine: Anything with reasonable spice
Favorite Dishes: Kung Pao Chicken, Flourless Chocolate Cake, Chicken and Pasta with a lovely cream sauce
Favorite Desserts: Anything Chocolate without Nuts, Yellow cupcakes with Chocolate frosting or White (Safeway) Cake with White frosting
Favorite Drinks: Pineapple Mojito
Favorite Junk Foods: Lays Chips, Pillsbury Chocolate Chip Cookes
Best meal ever: oh, there are too many to say
My Original Recipes: See Pasta with chicken and cream sauce
Favorite Restaurants: I'm low brow-but I do love diners and Don Pablos
Foods I hate: Liver, brussel sprouts, beats..pork

Favorite Books: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, Interview with the Vampire, DaVinci Code, The Art of the Matrix, Idiots Guide to Spanish, I Shudder at Your Touch
Favorite Authors: Richard Matheson, Poppy Z. Brite, Luana Montiero, Patricia Highsmith, Anne Rice, Sante D'Orazio
Favorite Genres: Horror-specifically 50's Twilight Zone, Art by El Greco and John Singer Sargeant
Favorite Characters: Trinity-she takes no shit.
Favorite Quotes: "You know I like to eat 11 small meals a day, Nancy."-Dale Gribble-King of the Hill "Why do you hate everything you don't understand?" "That's not true Bobby, I don't hate you." Hank Hill to Bobby Hill-KIng of the Hill
Recent Reads: "Stick Out Your Tongue" by Ma Jian and "Apartment Therapy" by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan