My guilty pleasure(s): watching this series about the Tudors which is more like a soap opera than history, and I really don't care for soap operas.
The best word to describe me is: My hero(es): My father
Words or phrases I overuse: "I read somewhere..."
My superpower is: my memory
What else you should know about me:
I have been interested in the Tudor period since I saw the movies "A Man for All Seasons" and "Anne of the Thousand Days" years ago and began reading voraciously about the era. I am a fierce partisan of Katherine of Aragon.
IN MY DREAMS...
In the movie version of my life, I would be played by: Irene Pappas
My childhood ambition/career goal: Archaeologist
If I were a breakfast cereal, I would be:
If I could tame and ride any animal, it would bea:
If I could live anywhere, it would be: Italy
My dream job(s): Getting paid to do historical research
My dream vacation(s): Italy, Italy, Italy
TO-THE-MOMENT ME
Last movie I saw: ""Vanity Fair" (JRM has a role in this one, as a spoiled cad. He seems to be typecast.)
Last book I read: "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
Current book (s) I am reading: "Anna Kerenina" by Leo Tolstoy, (I'm a bit burned out on non-fictions just now, and I've never read "Anna Kerenina" because the several names each character has in Russian novels intimidated me in college literature courses; now that I understand the naming traditions, I am no longer intimidated). I am enjoying it so far. "Thomas Mroe" by Richard Marius; it's taking awhile as I'm tired of non-fiction just now.
Last album I listened to: The Soundtrack to "Becoming Jane" by Adrian Johnson
Last big splurge: Books
Last vacation: 1987: six weeks in Europe
MY ALL-TIME FAVES
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Hobbies: Reading, genealogy, surfing the web, crochet
Food(s): Italian
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Vacation spot(s): Venice
I like my eggs...
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TV show(s): Cold Case (TNT), Law and Order Original (TNT) I love the History Channel and the National Geographic Channel
Celebrities: Don't care for celebrities and our American fascination with them.
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Movies: "A Man for All Seasons", "Anne of the Thousand Days", "Vanity Fair", "War and Peace", "Girl With a Pearl Earring", "Becoming Jane" "Pride and Prejudice" ( A&E series 1995 with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.), "Ivanhoe" (A&E series with Steven Waddiington as Ivanhoe, Ciaran Hinds as a very effective Brian de Bois Gilbert), "Persuasion" with Ciaran Hinds as Capt. Wentworth, The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy "The Secret of Roan Inish", "The Horseman on the Roof".
Musician(s): Loreena McKennitt, Ottmar Leibert, Composers: Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ludwig von Beethoven
