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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Kindergarten Teacher
Location	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Interests	Making homemade ice cream, hiking, camping, sledding, haunting the Shedd Aquarium and the Conservatories (Lincoln Park or Garfield), birdwatching, running, biking, more sledding, reading (duh)...
Favorite movies	Casablanca, Pride and Prejudice (BBC/A&E), Roman Holiday, Sabrina, It's a Wonderful Life, Mostly Martha, Love in the Afternoon, Amélie, Chocolat, Walk the Line, Stranger than Fiction, Like Water for Chocolate, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sliding Doors, Fight Club, The Aviator, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Moulin Rouge, Singin' in the Rain
Favorite music	Django Reinhardt, Tommy Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan, Andrew Bird, The Avett Brothers, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Peter Mulvey, Desmond Dekker, Kate Rusby, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Crooked Still, The Cure, Erin McKeown, Feist, Gillian Welch, Girlyman, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Postal Service, Chuck Berry, Redbird, Damien Rice, Ray LaMontagne, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Dinah Washington
Favorite books	Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins On the Nature of the Universe by Lucretius Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino Robert Frost (The Poety of RF, Complete and Unabridged) Anne Sexton (The Complete Poems) Robert Creeley (Selected Poems) Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker) Mark Twain (The Complete Short Stories) Langston Hughes (Selected Poems) Carl Sandburg (Harvest Poems, 1910-1960)