Emily Barney
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Library Web Technologist |
| Location | Chicago, IL, United States |
| Introduction | This profile links to projects I've worked on in my "library science" program with the University of Illinois. Most of these are not set up to continue over time, so I suppose that makes me a "bad" blogger, but I'm still finding the tool useful! |
| Interests | Libraries, Social Networking Sites, Books with Awful Titles, Mashups, Widgets & Web Applications, International Cookery, Analog Photography, Graphic Design, Gardening, Participatory Culture, 18th Century Epistolary Novels, House Construction, Entertaining Combinations of All of the Above |
| Favorite movies | Emma Thompson, Lily Tomlin, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, America Ferrera, Paul Giamatti, Gurinder Chadha, Audrey Tataou, Queen Latifah, Emily Mortimer, Wong Kar Wai, Rupert Everett, Rodrigo Garcia, Amelie, American Splendor, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Bend it Like Beckham, Chungking Express, Crash, A Day Without A Mexican, Dear Frankie, Emma, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Finding Nemo, Garden State, Howards End, An Ideal Husband, The Incredibles, It Happened One Night, Junebug, Kung Fu Hustle, The Lady Eve, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Monsters, Inc., Mostly Martha, Nanny McPhee, Napoleon Dynamite, Off the Map, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Princess Bride, Raising Victor Vargas, Real Women Have Curves, Sabrina, The Station Agent, Strictly Ballroom, Ten Tiny Love Stories, This is Spinal Tap, Tortilla Soup, A Very Long Engagement, Whale Rider, While You Were Sleeping |
| Favorite books | Jane Austen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Robin McKinley, Andre Norton, Garth Nix, 18th century multi-volume epistolary novels (Think Pamela!), Orphan By Choice |
The children are waiting! Please tell them the story about the bald frog with the wig:
I never trusted that guy, waiting around in that prissy pond to see if any of the humans would stop by. Fetching balls? What does he think he is, a dog? But I hear he's running the whole place now and all it took was a quick kiss from the right woman. They say lightning never strikes twice, but maybe it's worth a try... what have I got to lose?