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Will's Mom

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About Me

I am a doctoral candidate at Marquette University -- finishing remotely after moving to California. (My husband, Aric, got a job here, so we moved in 2005.) I will be defending my dissertation on April 16, 2008!Aric and I have been married for seven years this May 19th. We're best friends, and he always can find a way to make me smile. We have a two-year-old son named Will, who continues to surprise and delight us every day.In my spare time (what spare time?), I love to write, and I'm always trying to challenge myself creatively. I mostly write fiction, and occasionally I write very, very bad poetry. I've also been known to attempt script writing, but my first writing love is fiction.

My Interests

My major interests are reading and writing. I love literature of all kinds, but I'm especially hooked on Shakespeare. If I could do anything in the world, I'd be a writer, but I also want to teach college literature. I'm hoping to do both.

Music:

They Might Be Giants!!! Most classical music (I have a BA in Music, after all). Most alternative music. And of course, The Indigo Girls.

Movies:

Any Coen brothers' movies, Tim Burton movies, super hero movies, and period pieces having to do with the Renaissance. Recent favs that have nothing to do with the above: Idiocracy, Clerks 2, The Simpson's Movie

Television:

The Office! The Simpsons!! Heroes!! Don't have time to watch more TV than that.

Books:

The Complete Works of Shakespeare -- of course; Waiting for Godot, The Complete Short Stories of Samuel Beckett, On Writing by Stephen King, Will You Please Be Quiet Please by Raymond Carver, all the Harry Potter books, Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut.

Heroes:

My husband, Aric; my son, Will; William Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Stephen King, JK Rowling, Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond Carver.