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About Me

If wishes were horses we'd all be eatin' steak.

I am
Supergirl Honest, feminine and a defender of the innocent.

Supergirl 90% Wonder Woman 85% Spider-Man 65% Batman 65% Superman 65% Robin 55% Catwoman 45% "Squirt?"
But also
Jessica Rabbit
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.

Jessica Rabbit

100%

Alice

80%

Minnie Mouse

60%

Tinkerbell

60%

Dorie

60%

Let's see what happens if I do THIS...

My Interests

Adventures, good books, rock shows, random travel and new friends, dancing like you don't care, sleeping in. If I'm being honest, I'm a huge nerd. I love books and art and video games, in a variable order. I like a good whim challenge and doing things I refuse to regret later. Doing stupid shit just to feel the wind in your hair and the tingle in your fingertips is fair game in my world. I have been known to cross the nation just to walk into a room and KNOW things. I love the idea that I could live in a castle. I am impatient, blunt, and wicked smaht. And lucky. I teach SAT prep to HS students so I'm always up on what the cool kids think. And since when did the cool kids become the smart kids, anyway?

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I'd like to meet:

People who know what it means to Keep Up. If you have to ask, you don't know.

Music:

Make it loud and fun. Throw in a hot rocker or two and I'm sold. For ubÃ«r-hawtness, check out The Crashtones and Billionaire Boys Club *drool*

Movies:

Wizard of Oz, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Serenity. I'm working my way through the AFI's top 100 because I'm OCD like that. And despite the butchery perpetuated by Disney, I know all the words - and I really mean ALL THE WORDS - to Alice in Wonderland.

Television:

Firefly, Veronica Mars, Good Eats, Alias, Bob Ross, The Food Network, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Gilmore Girls, Cubs games and the World Series (this year is our year), the new Battlestar Galactica (RIP Crashdown, ya bastid), old movies on TCM, and marathons of just about anything.

Books:

Top 4 in no particular order:
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Possession by A. S. Byatt

I like epics. And adventures. Chick fiction too - but not romance novels. Cyber-punk and sci-fi, fantasy, historical fiction, a little philosophy, biographies and autobiographies...oh, and classics. Added bonus if it says "Volume One." Actually, anything with pages.

Heroes:

Women who struggle to fight the Good Fight, whatever the Good Fight may be. Jane Austen, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, the usual cadre of oppressed female writers. JK Rowling for helping to make reading popular with kids again. Charles Dodgson. Emily Dickinson for her unprecedented ability to make spinsterhood into a fascinating occupation. Gutenberg. My mom and my Unka Tony. My 5-year-old brother because when I look at the world through his eyes, it's full of wonder.

My Blog

Blogspot!

I've been trying to get into the habit of blogging over the last couple of months, and doing a horrific job. Today I snagged Jer and finally figured out how to post pictures, make a gallery, and basic...
Posted by Tika! on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 12:39:00 PST

Shogun - James Clavell

I've read this book every couple of years since I found it on my mom's shelf when I was about 10. So... 8 times? It's a staple of my library and until last year's Japanese class, the bulk of my Japane...
Posted by Tika! on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:58:00 PST

Another Questionnaire

I stole this one from B. One of these days I'll get over my obsessive need to do every fucking questionnaire that comes my way, but until then... FIRSTS: 1. First best friend: Theresa Lemke ...
Posted by Tika! on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:29:00 PST

for the girls who understand

My friend Allysa send this to me. It's what she said - perfect. This is my tribute to the nice girls. To the nice girls who are overlooked, who become friends and nothing more. This is for the girl...
Posted by Tika! on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:37:00 PST

A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin

From Publishers Weekly In a world where the approaching winter will last four decades, kings and queens, knights and renegades struggle for control of a throne. Some fight with sword and mace, others...
Posted by Tika! on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:06:00 PST

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

I wasn't going to read this book. I've been so good, sticking to school books and staying away from the litterati trash... but in a Kubrick's Shining-and-Fat-Tire-induced moment of weakness I let a fr...
Posted by Tika! on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:26:00 PST

Personality Quiz

Interesting. Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Stability |||||||||||||||||| 76% Orderliness |||||||||||| 50% Accommodation |||||||||| 36%...
Posted by Tika! on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:28:00 PST

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

This book rocked my socks the first time I read it. Then I listened to it as an Audiobook, and let me tell you it was that much better. Allow me to sound more lit-nerdy than I usually do (trust me, it...
Posted by Tika! on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:25:00 PST

Bitch - Carolyn Kizer

So I'm taking a Women in Literature course from one of my favorite teachers. Those who know me well will understand how much I like this lady just by me saying I'm taking a Women in Lit course. Anyway...
Posted by Tika! on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:01:00 PST

Hello to the Cannibals - Richard Bausch

FROM THE PUBLISHER "My heart stopped peacefully, its beating grew slow and weak, and then just -- stopped. I died young. There is, really, only a little to tell." And so ended, in 1900, the short ...
Posted by Tika! on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:49:00 PST