Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	writer, harpist
Location	Wisconsin, United States
Introduction	cancer survivor. writer. artist. harpist. pursuer of happiness.
Interests	writing, art, books, ideas, philosophy, music, modern art, the renaissance, leonardo da vinci, coffee, tea, wine, travel, stories, art theory, alexander the great, home movies, witticisms, resuscitating literature from the tedium of convention, feminism, greece ancient and modern, t.e. lawrence, magic realism, costume dramas (they don't need to be good), joy, ancient history, susan seddon-boulet, sarah bernhardt, ottoman empire, sufi poetry, 19th century Paris, leonardo's flying machines, pastel painting, byzantium, mythology, enlightenment
Favorite movies	Flight of the Conchords, Firefly, Rome, The Tudors, The Pink Panther, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma, C.R.A.Z.Y., The English Patient, 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Un Chien Andalou, Lord of the Rings, Lawrence of Arabia, Man of La Mancha, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (lol), Skins, Roman Holiday, The Seventh Seal, The Princess Bride, Battlestar Galactica, Henry V, Cabaret
Favorite music	Bob Dylan, Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, Noah and the Whale, Josh Ritter, Joni Mitchell, Simon & Garfunkle, Beatles, David Bowie (against my better judgment...), Ben Folds, Dave Matthews, the Killers, Iron & Wine, Nick Drake, Beirut, Solas, Silly Wizard, Coldplay, Vampire Weekend, Sam Roberts
Favorite books	One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Iliad, Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, Terry Pratchett, Cloud Atlas, Katherine Mansfield, Diana Wynne Jones, Swordspoint, The Hero & the Crown, Sherwood Smith, Oscar Wilde, Night, C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces, Hermann Hesse, The Master & Margarita, Catch 22, Franny & Zooey, The Giver, Thursday Next!, Jane Eyre, Eat Pray Love, Pride & Prejudice, Nicole Krauss, Ursula K. LeGuin, Autobiography of Yogi, Crossing to Avalon

If you were a pirate, how would you avoid laughing when saying 'poop deck'?

I'd rename it "Bastard Deck." Around here we prefer allegations of illegitimacy to scatalogical references.