Music : Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Foo Fighters   TV shows : Deadwood, The Sopranos, Rome, Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Scrubs, Stargate: Atlantis, The Simpsons, and poor Futurama, who left this world far too early  Movies : Shakespeare in Love, Cold Mountain, Lost In Translation,

The Matrix, Kill Bill Vol. 1,  Election, Ice Age, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, True Romance, Goodfellas, The Lord of the Rings trilogy,  Equilibrium, and Underworld.  (I’m also the kind of person  who considers Old School to be a classic.  Take that how you will.) 

Video Games : The Sims, The Sims 2, Resident Evil games, Zelda games  Candy : Cool Mints (like York Peppermint Patties, only better), Junior Mints, M&Ms  Magazines : People      Board Games : Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary  Concert : The Who (Toronto, 2002)

Books : There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom, by Louis Sachar        Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson    Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer (we’re big Joan Bauer fans at my house) Hanging on to Max, by Margaret Bechard  Some of my all-time favorites are Wuthering Heights,

Watership Down, Animal Farm, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, The Chrysalids, The Handmaid’s Tale

THINGS I ENJOY                                                                THINGS I DO NOT ENJOY

Jeopardy                                                                                  Things that are boring

The beach                                                                                Bad drivers

Chocolate                                                                                Crowds

Diet Pepsi                                                                                Heights

Camping                                                                                  Turbulence on airplanes

Mexico                                                                                     Smoking

Really good french fries with gravy                                        Political correctness

 HOBBIES

 I like to jog with my dog.  I am not a good jogger.  I am not an attractive jogger.  Reading  Shopping at Costco  Watching movies Baking (Wasn’t it Descartes who said, “I bake, therefore I jog”?)   Gardening