SpyGirl
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Beth Loves Bollywood
- Closed Stacks
- House Full - Learn Hindi from Bollywood Movies Podcast
- knit and tonic
- My Name is Karan
- October Library
- Paisa Vasool--Or Not
- Post-Punk Cinema Club
- These are my words, man
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Museums or Libraries |
| Occupation | Librarian |
| Introduction | My mother was a home ec teacher. Not while I was growing up, but she taught high school home ec for a few years before I was born, and then again later when I was a senior in high school (yes, she taught at my school and was my actual home ec teacher). But in between all that, when she didn’t have a job outside the home, I got all the benefits of having a home ec teacher for a mother without having to be graded on what I learned. Hence this blog. PS. It's not meant to be authoritative, merely anecdotal. |
| Interests | vintage kitchenware, (Pyrex, Fire King, vintage Tupperware);, vintage aprons;, Egyptology;, World War II cultural history;, baseball;, learning languages, (French, Spanish, German, Norwegian, and Hindi, so far but I've also dabbled in, Russian, Dutch, and, Italian); finding out recipes for dishes I have only read about in books such as, Peach Melba, Bubble and Squeak, and, Raspberry Fool;, oh and let's not forget the fiber arts:, knitting, and, crocheting, like a madwoman;, and now, sewing, too--will it never end;, Norwegian class;, learning Hindi, from, Bollywood movies |
| Favorite Movies | Om Shanti Om, (the best movie ever made!), Kal Ho Naa Ho, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, The Princess Bride, Pride and Prejudice (1995), Sound of Music;, everything except political, epidemic, or football movies;, Favorite Television:, Doctor Who, Smallville, La Femme Nikita, Freaks and Geeks, Alias, Battlestar Galactica, Chuck, Big Bang Theory, Burn Notice, Torchwood, Ugly Betty, Heroes, House, Lost, Dexter, Mystery!, Masterpiece Theater, The Wire, Veronica Mars, The Office (American), Coupling, Cold Feet, Northern Exposure, Monarch of the Glen, Foyle's War, X-Files, History Channel; Guilty pleasures:, Cold Case, Without a Trace, NCIS, Numb3rs, (no I don't consider Smallville and Nikita guilty pleasures) |
| Favorite Music | Bollywood soundtracks:, Om Shanti Om, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Bunty aur Babli, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Dostana, Chak De! India, Jab We Met, Salaam-e-Ishq, Kuch Naa Kaho, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Salaam Namaste, Bluffmaster, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Guru, (starring, Abhishek Bachchan), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge;, music directors:, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal-Shekhar, Jatin-Lalit;, singers:, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shaan, Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan, KK, Alka Yagnik, Kasey Chambers, Gillian Welch, Iris Dement, Dead Ringer Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mari Boine, Maria Röjås, Kristen Bråten Berg, Sissel, Carter Family, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Mandalay, Rilo Kiley, The Strokes, Marie Antoinette soundtrack, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins;, 1920s-1940s music; |
| Favorite Books | Little House books (NOT the tv show), Favorite Dewey call numbers: 641.5 and 940.54;, Least favorite Dewey call number: 364.1523 (ugh);, Fiction and mystery:, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Peters, Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie (haven't read her for a long time though), various and sundry classics;, Other:, Beauty and the Beast retellings, other fairy tales, Harry Potter, Three Musketeers (a page turner!), Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher mysteries, Helen Fielding, Katie Fforde, Anna Maxted, Marian Keyes, Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging et al., children's fiction |
You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?
Well, black Chucks. What else?