Gender	Female
Occupation	University Teacher and Grad Student, Linguistics, Language Variation and Change
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Introduction	Read and learn, grasshopper.
Interests	language, linguistics, french horn, knitting, weaving, cross stitch, crochet, board games, cats, macs, carillon.
Favorite movies	Lone Star, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Fargo, Wings of Desire, The Blues Brothers, The Fifth Element, Amadeus, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars: A New Hope
Favorite music	They Might Be Giants, The Beatles, Loreena McKennitt, Queen, XTC, The Tragically Hip, Jonathon Coulton, Paul & Storm, Tom Lehrer, Tori Amos, Genesis, REM, Moxy Früvous, Classical, Jazz, Folk & Bluegrass, Movie soundtracks, Broadway soundtracks.
Favorite books	Doomsday Book, Harry Potter, The Nine Tailors, Wisdom Sits in Places, Neverwhere, Lord of the Rings, Discworld, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Sandman, Y: The Last Man, Nero Wolfe

What reason do you have to believe the earth is flat?

It told me so. And then it said it was lying.