How long have you been with SU?  Since August 2007

favorite movie:  "Bladerunner"

favorite food:  Anything from the sea: whether it’s octopus cooked slowly in olive oil, calamari fried to perfection, shrimp anyway it comes, crab (dungeoness) or lobster boiled pink and cracked open, mussels in cream or garlic butter sauce, oysters raw, or good old fashioned fish and chips.

favorite music/band/type of music:  folk-rock, and the Beatles

favorite vacation spot:  Ocean/cityscapes. Greece is wonderful. London is fabulous. Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico are sublime. Most recently, and most enjoyably I visited the Caribbean and discovered in places like the Cayman Islands and Belize that I love reefs.

favorite book:  Outside of my studies and professional life, Terry Pratchett, Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde are probably my favorite authors, Conrad’s Nostromo is probably my favorite serious book.

what's on your night-stand right now? (book/music/DVD):    "The History of Virginity" by Anke Bernau (no, honestly!), and "Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula Le Guin.

who/what/where INSPIRES you & why?    Alisa, Loving friends, children, laughter, and the spirit of enquiry inspire me.

hobbies/interests/extra-curricular activities OUTSIDE SU:   writing, cooking, yoga, martial arts, fishing, canoeing

activities/interests/associations ON CAMPUS:   I organize the campus Syers Shakespeare Lecture, participate in Monday Night Fiction, am active in Student Senate as an advisor, in Sigma Tau Delta the English honors society/English majors organization, participate in Yoga, and generally try to join in events on campus that enrich us like, among many others, Coffee House. I am currently involved in bringing the Actors of the London Stage to campus to perform King Lear for us in 2009.