I'm a pretty average book nerd - I love poetry and history, philosophy and debate. I'm also a bit of a sci-fi/fantasy fan. Nothing makes me happier than cooking for friends.

I come from Rhode Island, the land of HP Lovecraft, Family Guy, frozen lemonade, the country's last recorded vampire, and gigantic Italian and Portuguese populations (including me), and I'm damn proud of it.

I just got out of a two-year relationship with a woman who is now my close friend. I'm not sure whether or not I'm ready to date again, but I want to meet some new people. This profile has actually existed for a long time - I just forgot it existed and then one day I was sorting through my Spam box on my email and there was OkCupid.

missmalkin, crazylikebread and whitestripes4vr are my dearest hearts. I'd go nuts without them - they make me smile when I'm sad and laugh when I'm crying. If you have anything you want to know about me but are too shy to ask - ask them, they know me well :) SammiiT1203 and Puckington are my best friends in the universe. They've seen me through thick and thin, high and low, and mean more to me than anyone else.

I've been a Girl Scout almost my entire life. I may not always admit it, but I love the outdoors on a summer night, and cooking over a campfire, and watching the stars from my sleeping bag. I'm not a huge fan of hiking, but I'll pitch a tent in a heartbeat.

Just found a new job, so now it's time to save for a new place and come to terms with the fact that it might be a few years before I can afford to finish my undergrad.

I just finished directing a run of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and now I'm working on learning my lines for a production of The Taming of the Shrew, which I was just cast in. (In case you can't tell, I'm a Shakespeare nut...)

Being confusing. Speaking in riddles. Thinking about monkeys on unicycles.

In all seriousness... I'm good at making obscure references when they make the least sense, I'm a very good cook, and I'm working on becoming a better singer. Oh, and reading... I'm good at that...

The fact that I have black hair? Or the random silver streaks found in said black hair?

This list will take far too long to complete.
I read constantly, I am a movie whore, I sing constantly, and I love to cook, but here's my attempt:

The Great Gatsby, Holy Barbarians, American Eve, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, the Robert Langdon books: Angels & Demons, DaVinci Code and The Lost Symbol, Princess Bride (yes, the book), Timeline, To Kill a Mockingbird, Frankenstein, This Side of Paradise, Casino Royale, Wicked, Peter Pan, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, anything by Shakespeare

Almost Famous, Shakespeare in Love, Casino Royale, Swing Kids, Casablanca, To Have or Have Not, High Fidelity, Dogma, The Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Good Will Hunting, Talented Mr. Ripley, Rebel Without a Cause, The Counte of Monte Cristo, Much Ado About Nothing, Dead Poets Society, Pan's Labyrinth, Across the Universe, UP, Julie & Julia, Timeline, Sense & Sensibility, plus hundreds more...

Music isn't so much what I do like as what I don't... I never got into rap or hip hop, but I love pretty much everything else. And yes, everything else includes country. I have some very emotional connections to country music which I am happy to explain to anyone who thinks "wtf?" when they see this.

As far as food goes, there are few things I won't try - but my favorites are Italian, Mexican, French, Chinese, Japanese, and "American"

Not designated, but also important:
My favorite TV shows are - Friends, Gilmore Girls, Stargate SG-1 (NOT Atlantis), The Big Bang Theory, most versions of Star Trek (TNG, original, Enterprise), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and a handful of Disney shows.

My Shakespeare anthology
My guitar
My laptop
A fully stocked kitchen
My friends
A plethora of useless knowledge at my fingertips.

Shakespeare. And the Beatles. New kinds of tea and coffee to try. Sometimes I listen to the Beatles while I read Shakespeare and drink tea. It makes me smile in a very satisfied way.

Out with friends or at rehearsal.

Also, at nighttime I inspire songs. Here is one my friend whitestripes4vr wrote about me :)
Em-i-ly
Can't you see
Songs for thee do no justice cause you're smart and priittyyy
Em-i-ly
Likes Shakespeare
And drops ice cubes down the vest of fear

:)

I recently went to King Richard's Faire in a half-assed costume just for shits and giggles, and fell in love with the atmosphere. Ren faires bring out memories of lives long past lived :)

Also, I have a new found thing for gingers... I'm not sure why...

...if you've made it this far, you've probably seen something that you like. Just a guess.

I guarantee a reply message to anyone who actually knows who Arlo Gutherie is. I've found that a surprising amount of people have no clue. (This saddens me.)

I suppose this is also the place to mention that at the moment I'm more interested in meeting a nice bloke than a nice lady. I'm not sure why - I just happened to be more attracted to gentlemen at the moment.