Name: Amanda  amyhope83@yahoo.com  AIM: AmyHope450

Age: Eighteen

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Blue

Personality: Introvert, frustrated optimist, control freak, "As unpredictable as New England weather"

Hobbies: Band, horseback riding, reading, writing, singing, playing clarinet and oboe, listening to music, blogging, cross-stitching, cross-country skiing, fencing, hiking, cavorting wildly, hanging out with the best friends in the world.

Guilty pleasures: 80's music. ;-)

Favorite color: Blue

Favorite subjects: It appears that I have become a classicist. I'm still not quite sure how that happened. I'm also fond of English and music.

Favorite TV show: Latenight Cartoon Network amuses me.

Favorite books: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Watership Down and Traveller by Richard Adams, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and A Wrinkle in Time (among others) by Madeline L'Engle. There are tons more that I could add, but this is probably quite enough for now. :-)

Favorite movies: Dogma, Bandits, The Emperor's New Groove

Favorite flower: Daffodils, lilies, morning glories

Favorite food: Potatoes

Favorite toy: The Electrowhocardioschlux (those of you who have watched "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" too many times will know what I'm talking about.)

Favorite type of word: Liquid continuates (such as 'glum' and 'lard')

College: Colgate University

Favorite songs: At present I'm obsessed with "Frontier Psychiatrist" by the Avalanches and "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" by Rufus Wainwright.

Favorite actor: Robin Williams

Favorite bands/singers: Savage Garden, 3rd Eye Blind, REM, Goo Goo Dolls, Bon Jovi, Peter Paul & Mary, Natalie Merchant, Sarah McLachlan, Cat Stevens, Indigo Girls, Bruce Hornsby, Simon & Garfunkel, Tracy Chapman, the Beatles, the Smiths, the Whitlams, Mary Timony, etc, etc, etc. Sometime soon I'm just going to get rid of this section and list all the cd's I own on a separate page. Or something. This is getting silly.

I am not "cool." I am not popular. I'm just me. Like me or don't.