Jana
female, 43 |
B.O.M.
On the Border By the Sea / Texas, USA
member since 28.07.2007
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I am fascinated by the Roman Republican era, cats and my 2 guinea pigs. (Loki and Lil' Puddintater). ***Update 11/15/11 - Loki & Tater no longer grace the earth. They have passed on to the great trough in the sky... or wherever guinea pig nirvana is. I do have a new guinea pig. His name is Vladimir Putin. We named him thus because he is a Russian blue, but mostly because he is small, aggressive and very territorial. We also had a smaller brown pig named Sputnik (because she would run crazy circles around Putin) but alas, she did not last a month. Bad grammar is a big pet peeve. Litterbugs are a close second.
Love baseball, HATE basketball & indifferent to professional American football (college football is ok).
Quotes I love:
"Incest. A game the whole family can play!"
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
--Plato
Best quote EVER:
"veni, vidi, vici"
Poems I love:
"Odi et amo: quare id facium, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fiere sentio et excrucior."
"I hate and love. And if you ask me why, I have no answer, but I discern, I feel, my senses rooted in torture."
--Gaius Valerius Catullus
(ca 84 BC - ca 54 BC)
Books/Authors I love:
*"Masters of Rome" Series by Colleen McCollough
"The Iliad"
"The Odyssey"
"Bulfinch's Mythology"
"The Throat" Peter Straub
"Desperation" Stephen King
"Dune" Frank Herbert
"Tides of War" & "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield--. I always cry when I get to the part in "Gates of Fire" when the soldiers exchange weapons. Gets me EVERY time.
"Til We Have Faces" C.S. Lewis
Working my way through Herodutus' Histories.
Wired Magazine- I'm not a technofile, I just love the quirky and informative articles
Movies I love:
*A Philadelphia Story (Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart & Kate Hepburn--it doesn't get any better than this!)
*To Kill A Mockingbird
*Anatomy of a Murder
*The Passion of Jean D'arc (silent film)
*Schindler's List
*The Lover
*Anne of a Thousand Days
*Bladerunner
*2001: A Space Odyssey
*LA Confidential
*Airplane!
*Black Hawk Down
*The Nightmare Before Christmas
*Full Metal Jacket
*Titus Andronicus
*Monty Python's "The Holy Grail"
*Young Frankenstein
Guilty Pleasures:
Movies- The Fifth Element and any movie with zombies.
Cheeseburgers
Beer
Daydreams (I daydream ALL the time) |
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