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About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Consulting
Occupation	Scribe
Location	United States
Introduction	I am funny, compassionate, cute. I like smart asses and smarties. I'm a geek, ex-Catholic school girl (12 year vet), librarian, biz consultant, and English instructor. I'm a Buddhist, (by way of 12 years Catholic school). I've been a pacifist since a very early age. I'm anti-capital punishment. I'm also somewhat introverted (MBTI -- INTP), but only my close friends know that. I believe in compassion and peace and try to live up to my beliefs (it's a tough world). I'm a robot collector and I have an amazing ward, Spike the Wondercat.
Interests	Popular culture (Movies, TV, music), reading, art, teaching, writing, travel, peace, meditating, laughing, doing crossword puzzles, taking long drives
Favorite movies	2046, Cat People (Shraeder), Vertigo, Dark City, Lost in Translation, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Evil Dead II, Monty Python, Marx Bros, Santa Sangre, Spirit of the Beehive, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Blade Runner (the original cut); Carnival of Lost Souls, Poison, Sin City, Dark Man, Apartment Zero, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Stardust Memories, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Betty Blue, The Decalogue, Ashes and Diamonds, The 400 Blows, Murder My Sweet, Lady in the Lady, 20th Century, Ball of Fire, Hardware, An Inconvenient Truth, Marx Bros, Lubitsch, Fassbinder. I like scifi, campy, and psychotronic stuff, but screw the Hollywood crapfest
Favorite music	Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Everything but the Girl, Linkin Park, Nirvana, Paul Oakenfold, Foo Fighters, U2, Snow Patrol, Poe
Favorite books	The Art of Happiness, Siddartha, The Sun Also Rises, Pick-up, Burnt Orange Heresy, The Face on the Cutting Room Floor. The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama is an incredibly powerful book, but very low-key. It was written with a psychologist, an interesting counterpoint. Re-reading Discipline &; Punish by Michel Foucault; really makes you see familiar institutions in a very compelling way. Siddartha by Herman Hesse -- I'm on a continual re-read. A beautiful, wonderous book. It helps me to really get Buddhism...