I've just moved to the Champaign area and gotten my first grown up person job. Its pretty exciting.

I managed to get an advanced degree (library and information science) and get a job in my field of study, I'm thankful for that. I had to leave Chicagoland and move here, but it doesn't seem so bad.

Writing, intelligent conversation, academic research, Expressing concepts through overwrought comic book metaphors ("The Avengers is really just a quick encapsulation of greco-roman hero types with Thor in the role of the divine sanction...")

You should ask them.

(a)Books/authors: All Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, 1984, We, The hitchiker's guide series, Hunter S. Thompson, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Writings of H.L. Mencken, Clockwork Orange, The Flowers of Evil, Grant Morrison, Catullus, John Hodgeman, The Trial, George Orwell, World War Z, HG Wells, Various non-fiction history books especially in the areas of Early Modern Europe(my official undergradspecialization) and Ancient Rome

(b)Movies: Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, The Big Lebowski, Stop Making Sense, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Children of Men, Muholland Drive, RAN, Seven Samurai, The Killing, Reservoir Dogs, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Fountain, Blade Runner, Die Hard, Lady and the Tramp, Dark City, Glengarry Glenross, Wet Hot American Summer, The Dark Knight, Brazil, Pretty much anything by Pixar

(c) Elvis Costello, Sleater-Kinney, Mouse On Mars, Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, Elliot Smith, Gram Parsons, The Mekons, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Afrika Bambatta, The Old 97's, Tori Amos, King Crimson, Television, Paramore (So what if liking it basically makes me a 17 year old girl?), Richard Hell, PJ Harvey, The Clash, Janelle Monae,

(d) Television: Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Futurama, Simpsons, Top Gear, Doctor Who, The Prisoner, Star Trek: DS9, Venture Bros, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, The Office (both versions), Firefly, Daily Show and Colbert Report, Sarah Silverman program, Stella, and I love NPR. Especially This American Life

Music, Literature, Food, Air, reasonable people, Love Love Love

Travel Early Modern European History librariesToo many things.

I guess I try not to have typical Fridays.

My favorite color is green

Any reason will do.