random facts about LB

• seriously considered going to Europe to study opera after high school.
• am a moderate vegetable and fruit snob: I analyze each piece and pick the best ones and only buy produce from Reasor's.
• just made a bluegrass station on Pandora. I blame it on Nickel Creek. What is happening to me!?!? I also really like Heart right now. Go figure.
  
• absolutely love fleece and wish it was socially acceptable to wear fleece pants in every setting during the winter.
• can write for hours given the inspiration of a minute's time in a bookstore or an airport.
• my favorite flavor is marionberry; my least favorite flavor is clove.
• even after all these years, I'm still deathly terrified of my three childhood fears: clowns, felt hand puppets, and claymation.
• wish I had a weimaraner or a fox.
• read lots of Star Wars books, can quote about 60% of the original trilogy (I'm a little rusty), and am pretty much obsessed with Chewbacca. JT says I fell in love with him because he's like Chewie: loyal and hairy!
  
• my favorite characters are: Neville Longbottom, Chewbacca, Aurora, Angus, the Wicked Witch (Elphaba), and Chunk. I'm forgetting someone very obvious.
  
• pretty much everything I own has a name: Boromir the Sony Vaio, Neville Longbottom III the digital camera, Xi-Xi the Xterra, Truffle Shuffle the iPod Shuffle.
• want to name my kids Maya, Violet, Emery, and Conner right now. This changes bi-annually probably.
  
• been an ulcerative colitis patient since 2001.
• did musical theater, choir, softball, basketball, and praise and worship band in high school.
  
• would play Anita from Westside Story or Eponine in Les Miserables if I could play anyone.
• my mother was told dancing wasn't for me by the instructor of my first and only dance class I ever took.
• mullets are insanely funny and fascinating to me.
• The Food Network can entertain me for hours. Giada, Michael Symon, and Ellie Krieger are my favs! (and Paula, of course.)
  

Places LB Wants to Visit:

• English countryside
• Scottish highlands
• Ireland - anywhere and everywhere
• vineyards in Italy
• Washington state
• California - upstate where the redwoods grow, San Franciso, San Diego
• back to Costa Rica
• Greece
• Greenville, South Carolina
  

Favorite Places LB Has Been:

• Costa Rica
• Hood River, Oregon (and Portland)
  
• Hill Country/Lake Travis outside of Austin
• Indianapolis
• Alaska
• Buffalo River, or pretty much anywhere with rich green woods and a running stream