Nerda Puella
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I'm a young lady who dreams big and a Christian trying to follow my Lord and Savior. I have a passion for the Latin language (and perhaps my, at times, masochist desire to learn Greek) and plan to make my career within Classics. |
| Interests | Ancient History, Apples to Apples, Art, Ballet, Bible, Catullus, Celtic anything, Champollion, Classical Art, Church, C.S. Lewis, Egyptology, Emerald stones, Etymology, Eye glasses, Family, Grammatology, Greek Literature, God, History (of just about everything specifically Roman Monarchy, Republic, Empire, and European history, Indo-European languages, Inkling Literature, Latin Literature, Long conversations, Jane Austen, Jesus, Music, OCD, OED, OLD, Opera, Ovid, Period dramas, Philology, Renaissance Art and History, Rhetorical devices, Sundays, Talking to my friends, Tea (Irish Breakfast, English Breakfast, Earl Grey, and Prince of Wales), Tolkien, Traveling, Tsavorite garnet, Vergil, Victorian Literature, Violin, Wikipedia, Wikispaces |
| Favorite Movies | Bleak House, Emma, Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park (1999 and 2007), North and South, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion Phantom of the Opera, Pride and Prejudice (1995 and 2005), Sense and Sensibility, Tristan and Isolde, Under the Greenwood Tree, Serenity, the epics (Star Wars, LOTR, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, etc.), Princess Bride, You've Got Mail, Timeline, Amadeus, any movie based on Classics (yeah, I've seen Clash of the Titans a few times...), The Inheritance, Jane Eyre (2006 mini series), North and South (Gaskell), Possession (based on the Byatt novel, The Name of the Rose, Highlander, Stargate...and I'll have to update later. |
| Favorite Music | Eclectic. It depends on my mood. I can go from bagpipes to rock to classical in the span of about five minutes. |
| Favorite Books | see one of the six bookshelves in my room... The Bible (I really like Esther and Ephesians), A Skeleton in God's Closet, Harry Potter Series, LOTR Many books based on Star Wars, Pliny's letters (specifically those about Vesuvius and those directed to Trajan), Pro Caelio, CoN, Outlander Series, Lori Wick books, Stephen Saylor novels, Heart of Darkness, the Aeneid, Catullus's poems, etc, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love, etc. |
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