WhiteCrane

I visit the neighbourhood Starbucks all the time but I won't use the lingo. It's not language, it's just marketing and je refuse! I have a fake-fur leopard tote bag for my laptop -- best garage sale find ever. I'm scared of getting needles, but not of public speaking -- or singing. I always disliked veggies till I encountered Asian cuisines. My left foot is bigger than my right by a half-size; makes shoe buying a challenge sometimes. I never wear high heels. Growing up, I thought that people wearing reading glasses & looking over top of them were insufferably haughty. Then I got my first pair, and now I understand... I own a claddagh ring and wear it with the heart pointing out. Someday soon I hope to point it to *my* heart and keep it that way.

University of Western Ontario, 1984
London, Ontario - English/French

CDs close at hand include Steely Dan, Annie Lennox, Sting, Chicago, Manhattan Transfer, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac, Joe Jackson. I enjoy singing lots of different styles, from ragtime and vaudeville to Baroque opera to folk melodies to art songs.

By the time I'm at home watching TV it's usually late in the evening and the day's quotient of brain cells has been expended. Just barely enough left for a dose of satire such as Jon Stewart, Family Guy, American Dad, South Park.... Possibly enough for a Law & Order or CSI re-run.

I'm kind of a random movie-goer... Uh, The Big Lebowski, Bladerunner, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Brother Where Art Thou, The Full Monty, The Incredibles.
How about live theatre?? Harder to share with an online crowd, but oh so much more immediate in real life! Robert LePage's Vinci still resonates, and his Dragons' Trilogy was unforgettable. I'd love to see another production of Crazy For You, and I'm always up for a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. For the most part, though, give me a small theatre production -- something edgy created by dedicated artists in a small venue for an experienced audience.

Oodles. I read book-type books, the type that come from a bookstore, not a supermarket. Fave authors, in no particular order: the CanLit heavyweights for pleasure + patriotism (Margaret Atwood and Robertson Davies at the top of my list), Michel Tremblay (Quebec being a distinct society, shan't include him with the others!), Jose Saramago, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Henry Fielding, Anthony Trollope, Gerald Durrell, DM Thomas, Primo Levy, O Henry, William Makepeace Thackeray, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, and my earliest favourite Beatrix Potter. Not a complete list by any stretch...
I'd think twice before revealing this to a match, though... after having been told that my *books* are intimidating, for Pete's sake!

* Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediment. (first line of a Shakespeare sonnet)
* Chastity is having the body in the soul's keeping. (Robertson Davies. Gotta love this one. Think of the latitude it gives!)