Emilie

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Gender Female
Location Washington, DC, United States
Introduction I made up an imaginary boyfriend when I was in law school and then six months later I met him. That was way back in 2001. We're totes hitched now and had our first baby, a little girl, on August 17, 2008. Her name is Margaret James and we call her Maisie.
Interests Opining about pop culture; opining in general; reading good books; reading trashy magazines; being a human IMDB; correcting people on the internet; monitoring the presidential campaign; nesting; shopping for makeup, cheap jewelry, and handbags; drinking Diet Coke; wearing pajamas; running marathons (just kidding); watching Bravo marathons (for real); finishing my overdue novel; emailing my peeps; trying out new restaurants; convincing my husband to take me to the 'burbs to go to Outback; Targeting.
Favorite Movies Say Anything, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Almost Famous, The Graduate, Doctor Zhivago, Once.
Favorite Music Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Gram Parsons, Wilco, Lucinda Williams, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Hold Steady, Okkervil River, The New Pornographers, Jenny Lewis, Brandi Carlile, Tift Merritt, Josh Ritter, The Frames, The Swell Season, et al.
Favorite Books The Sound and the Fury, The Power of One, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Tales of the City, Nobody's Fool, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, Betsy in Spite of Herself, young adult fiction, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, sad childhood and drug addiction memoirs, good mysteries.