kids and education, hands-on science, interdisciplinary learning; theatre, books, music; happy dogs, being silly, getting things messy; ladybugs.
I'm the kind of person that doesn't care much about meeting celebrities (or anyone famous really) and am notorious for running into famous people in LA and having no idea who they are, like the time when I bumped (literally) into Morrissey in the lobby of the Standard because I wasn't looking where I was going and I just said "excuse me" and wondered why my friend was freaking out next to me. Or here's a notorious one; I'm walking down the street in Chicago, and I see this man and he looks a little familiar. I figure maybe he is a patron at the library, because that summer I'm working at the library and people keep saying hello to me in Whole Foods and I don't know who they are, and I've been feeling bad about not recognizing them. So I smile and say hello and the guy glares at me and doesn't say anything. I'm a little taken aback, and I turn to my friend next to me and he is laughing hysterically. "Why did you say hi to Jerry Springer?" he chortled. Really, the only famous person I can think of wanting to meet is that I have this weird idea I'd like to be sitting next to the author/literary critic Harold Bloom on a plane so I can disagree with him on some of his oh-so-strongly held views on Shakespeare.
oooooh... this category, huh. okay. The harry potter books, all 6 of them. If I like a book I re-read it. I have read each book between 5 and 20 times, depending on how long they are and how long ago they've been released.These are the books that were my favorite as a kid, that carried over to me still liking them now:Theatre Shoes and Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield; The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha by Lloyd Alexander; The Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace; Agatha Christie books, especially Miss Marples; Emily Climbs and Emily's Quest by LM Montgomery; Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Enghart(?);My latest favorite kids books that are more recent are Lirael and Abhorsen by Garth Nix.when I feel like an adult, I tend towards reading non-fiction, alot of popular science and/or historical "mystery" kinda stuff (like What Einstein told his Cook for the former, and The Island of Lost Maps for the latter.) It is hard to pin down what I like because I read so much and I read so fast. My apartment is littered in books, like they are piled on tables and on top of dressers and inside kitchen cabinets and stacked in piles in corner, in addition to being 2 or 3 deep on every bookshelf. But I will read fiction too, it's just that alot of modern fiction is overwritten. I will read genre fiction for a break - like mysteries or true crime (I'm a secret Ann Rule addict.) Oh, and I used to be a librarian.
my grandma bertha