My Interests
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My favorite thing to do can be done alone or with other people, and the best place to do it is in bed.

Oh, get your mind out of the gutter! :) Silly visitor, I'm talking about reading. From as far back as I can remember, I've loved to read. It's something I can always do and something I can bring with me anywhere. I've gone through many different types of books, such as The Baby-Sitters Club when I was in elementry school, through the Lurlene McDaniel type, through crime books, through Danielle Steel, through Michael Crichton (whom I still read), and the romance genre, with authors like Karen Robards, Johanna Lindsey, Judith McNaught, Jude Deveraux, Lynn Kurland, Linda Howard, Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Diana Gabaldon, who ranks the highest of the seven.

While romance is my favorite genre of books, I do also tear myself away every once in a while to read something else. When I do, I enjoy reading Ken Follett and John Irving.

Recent books I've read that I recommend include the following (these are books that I read between January 1, 2004 and May 22, 2004, but does not include all of the books read, merely those that I *really* enjoyed):

  • The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
  • No Way to Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley
  • Death’s Acre by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  • Twisted by Jeffrey Deaver
  • Holes by Louis Sachar
  • The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
  • As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto

    • When I was younger, movies were always something that I enjoyed. As I've grown older, that hasn't changed. I love going to the movie theater and watching a story unfold. In fact, more than one crush on a movie star has begun from watching their performance on the big screen (Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Colin Firth, Bruce Willis etc.).

    As for the actresses, I am a huge fan of Sandra Bullock, and a few of the great chick flicks that I love watching naturally include her in them, such as While You Were Sleeping, Love Potion No. 9, Speed and Miss Congeniality.

    Other movies I really enjoy include Emma, Shakespeare in Love, You've Got Mail, The Mexican and Bridget Jones's Diary. Are you sensing a romance theme in there?

    For the non-romance movies out there, some of my favorites are The Rock, The Shawshank Redemption, Face-Off, Arlington Road, Life is Beautiful, Fight Club, and Armageddon.

    Not so much any more, but when I was younger I loved to write. In fact, I have a page that has most of the writing that I've done. Most of it is from my sophomore year in high school, when I was in a creative writing class. You can read what I've written on my writing page.

    There's just something about Broadway music and the actual musicals themselves that appeals to me. There have been 13 shows that I've seen in New York. Those are:

    In high school, I did several musicals that were performed during the summer. Those were:

    I don't know when I first became interested in sign language, but it may have been around late 1998. I haven't had much of an opportunity to take classes in it, but that doesn't mean I haven't tried. My sophomore year of college (2000-2001), I took two semesters of sign language, and since that's all that was offerred, I haven't taken any more. I do see people around who are deaf and who sign, but unfortunately, I've lost a lot of the vocabulary I used to know, and I can't communicate with them as I would like to, assuming they would even want to include me in their conversation.

    This version of my Interests was born on November 27, 2001
    Last Update: May 22, 2004 .