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Mandy

mandyhusson

About Me

I am the news editor for the local daily newspaper. I'm a page designer, though I've done a lot of writing for our entertainment magazine. I'll miss talking to famous people, but I'm excited about my new job. I enjoy music of all (or at least most) kinds and even majored in music before switching to journalism. I've performed in a whole bunch of operas and musical theater productions and still try to perform when I can.

My Interests

Music
Theater
Opera
Movies
Ice Skating
Pirates
Good grammar
Good coffee
Shoes
Sleep
Pool
Poker

I'd like to meet:

My husband. And anyone who's not a big jerk.

Music:

Billy Joel
Indigo Girls
Gabe Dixon Band
Ben Folds
Jason Mraz
Dave Matthews Band
Phoenix
Keane
Tori Amos
Fiona Apple
Jimmy Eat World
The Fray
Coheed and Cambria
Dar Williams
Alien Ant Farm
Third Eye Blind
Kirsty MacColl
Head Automatica
Bobby Darin
Harry Connick Jr.
Incubus
James Taylor
Stephen Sondheim
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Giacomo Puccini

Movies:

Ocean's Eleven
Sliding Doors
Beautiful Girls
Confidence
Rounders
Hi Fidelity
Hercules
The Emperor's New Groove
Sideways
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
The Hudsucker Proxy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Edward Scissorhands
Pirates of the Carribean
Dream for an Insomniac
Chicago
Clueless
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Stranger Than Fiction

Television:

24
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Lost
The Shield
Law & Order SVU
The Muppet Show
The Greatest American Hero
Dawson's Creek
And, of course, my boys...

Books:

The Harry Potter series
Older Stephen King and Dean Koontz
Da Vinci Code
Angels and Demons
Jurassic Park
Sherlock Holmes
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (thanks, Don!)
Anything by Dr. Seuss

Heroes:

I prefer villains.

My Blog

At least I didn’t have to deal with mayonnaise.

If you've ever been a server, you've probably had a night like this:It's a super-busy Friday night dinner shift and everyone's running around crazily trying to keep all their customers happy and there...
Posted by Mandy on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:35:00 PST

Who needs sleep when you can repost surveys all night?

1. What was going through your mind during your last kiss?"Gee, I hope he calls." He didn't, in case you're wondering.2. How did you do on the last test you took?I scored a negative. Which was good, b...
Posted by Mandy on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:37:00 PST

But the blood looks like ketchup, Tim!

Attend the tale of Sweeney ToddHe trod a path that few have trodWhat happened then, well, that's the playAnd he wouldn't want us to give it away...So I won't. Pass your own judgment. But I will just s...
Posted by Mandy on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:44:00 PST

Movin on up

I got a promotion! I am now the Assistant Production Editor at my newspaper. Yay, me!What this means:1. I am the night operations supervisor for our design staff, so I'll be laying out primarily news ...
Posted by Mandy on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:21:00 PST

The Battle of I-10

Ah, football. How I've missed you. I hadn't been to a game since a little event called the AFC Championship. (Where were your video cameras then, Bill? Didn't help much, did they? But I digress...)Tod...
Posted by Mandy on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:34:00 PST

Over. Easy.

Wait ... Did you think from the title of this blog that it was going to be about the end of a relationship?Ooooh. Sorry. It's about eggs. That's right, boys and girls. Eggs and my egg-related accompli...
Posted by Mandy on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:50:00 PST

Me, in song lyrics

Courtesy of Jayme:Who are you?I am the daughter of a great romanceWhat do you look like?When someone with eyes that smolder / Says he loves every silken curl / That falls on my ivory shoulder, / I enj...
Posted by Mandy on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:06:00 PST

Shameful baseball vocabulary quiz failure

So, you know how Lucas and I take turns doing the Asimov's Super Quiz while we're proofreading newspaper pages, right? Okay, well now you do. Thursday's Super Quiz subject was Baseball Jargon "S," mea...
Posted by Mandy on Mon, 14 May 2007 06:50:00 PST

Fun survey, or distraction from work.

1. Do you still talk to the person you lost your virginity to?I see him from time to time, when his band is playing in town.2. Is it harder to be rejected or to reject someone?Both are difficult, I th...
Posted by Mandy on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:04:00 PST

10 reasons why beer is better than Jesus.

Stolen from an awesome bumper sticker:10. No one will kill you for not drinking beer.9. Beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.8. Beer has never caused a major war.7. They don't force beer on minors wh...
Posted by Mandy on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:40:00 PST