I'm a former English teacher and recovering grad student, back in Michigan and teaching High School English again. I'm learning to play the guitar, don't have enough time for it but I enjoy doing it. I'm surgically attached to my iPod and Sidekick. People that can't spell or use too many cutesy internet abbreviations annoy me. I hate reality tv. I want to get out of Ann Arbor and I don't. I'm a music nazi and am ok with that-people that listen to nothing but Dave Matthews get on my nerves. I make snap judgments (even though I know I shouldn't).

music, learning to play the guitar, drinking martinis & margaritas (not together), cooking, writing, reading anything I can get my hands on, journalism, music, music, more music

My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Alkaline Trio, Tori Amos, The Stone Roses, Idlewild, Joy Division, The Clash, Snow Patrol, Oasis, The Shins, Garbage, Nirvana, The Killers, The Doves, Kaiser Chiefs, Muse, The Ramones, Vaux, The Subways, Action Action, The Editors, Franz Ferdinand, Hard-Fi, Fall Out Boy, The Subways...way too many to list

The Royal Tennenbaums, The Producers, Rear Window, Intolerable Cruelty, Hilary and Jackie, Pirates of the Carribbean, Snatch, Bend it Like Beckham, The Incredibles, 24 Hour Party People, Love Actually, Garden State, Pulp Fiction, Walk the Line

Grey's Anatomy, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Sex and the City

Portrait of a Lady, Madame Bovary, Wasted, The Passion, Vanity Fair, The Barrytown Trilogy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Getting it in the Head, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Trainspotting