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About me

Gender	Female
Occupation	Office manager, part time
Location	Dallas, Pennsylvania, United States
Introduction	I am an introspective married woman of a certain age, with two married children who don't live nearby, a cat and several fish. I'm often thinking things to myself and I'd like to blog about them before I forget them.
Interests	Reading, esp. mysteries, Georgian romances, books about British royalty, and books about World War I. Travel, esp. to France, Ireland, Great Britain, South Africa, Israel, San Francisco, and Hawaii. Restaurants, movies, art museums, gardens, parks, aquariums, craft fairs. Visiting family and friends. Cats,sea creatures,armadillos, birds,hedgehogs,lions,tigers and bears. Really old buildings and really big trees and gemstones. Volcanoes, ruins, castles, cathedrals, hop-on hop-off buses. Current TV: "Mad Men," "The Big Bang Theory," "The Amazing Race," "Project Runway," "Person of Interest," "Sherlock," "Army Wives," "Doctor Who." The Bloomberg channel, esp. shows with Margaret Brennan and Tom Keene. David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel.
Favorite movies	Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Animal House, Elvira Madigan, The Wrong Box, Cialo (The Body), The Artist, Children of Paradise, the Harry Potter series, the films of Buster Keaton
Favorite music	Adele, Bob Dylan, Vitas, Nirvana, Kasabian, Cecil Taylor, Benny Goodman, Lady Gaga, Talking Heads, Gershwin
Favorite books	Mysteries by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Charlotte MacLeod, Boris Akunin, Reginald Hill, Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo, Evelyn Smith, Anthony Price, Sarah Caudwell,Iain Pears, Henning Mankell, Mark Hebden, Emily Brightwell, Aaron Elkins, Janet Evanovich, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rex Stout, E.C. Bentley, Deanna Raybourn. Selected works by Jane Austen, George R.R. Martin, Anthony Trollope, Lewis Carroll, E. Nesbit, E.F. Benson, P.G. Wodehouse, James Thurber, Robert Louis Stevenson, J.D. Salinger, Alain Robbe-Grillet. Romances by Georgette Heyer, Julia Quinn, Julie Ann Long, Julia London, Eloisa James. This isn't final and doesn't even include nonfiction, poetry, or plays, or it would go on for pages.