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Olga

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About Me

Carpatho-Russian Orthodox, chrismated "Olga" after the eldest daughter of the last Russian czar. Classics major with hopes of maybe maybe maybe attending Oxford for graduate work, first choice of college being St. Hilda's. Loves Lush, cats, poodles, and traveling (favorite country being Greece).

My Interests

Classics, Eastern Orthodox chanting, ballet, fantasy novels, writing...

Music:

Current favorites on my iPod:Bree Sharp (More B.S., Live At the Fez); Anna Nalick (Wreck of the Day); Megan Slankard (Freaky Little Story, Lady is a Pirate); Vienna Teng (Waking Hour); Mediaeval Baebes (Undrentide, Wine and Mistletoe (not very seasonal, but...)); Forbidden Broadway: SVU

Movies:

SERENITY! Anything with Johnny Depp or Lena Olin; The Company; Lemony Snicket; almost all Jane Austen adaptations (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park being favorites). Too many to name all.

Television:

Firefly; Alias; Joan of Arcadia; Whose Line; The Daily Show; The Colbert Report

Books:

Jane Austen, Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, Frederica Mathews-Green, JD Robb. Some favorites: Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen (Fay Weldon); Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott); The Black Swan, The Gates of Sleep (Mercedes Lackey).