"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." - Isaac Asimov

PEN NAME: Bad Octopus

SPECIES: cephalopod

GENDER: dame

AGE: 24

THINGS I AM: a writer, an artist, a singer, a violinist, an Anglophile, a book collector, a redhead, a southpaw, a coffee addict, a Sherlockian, an Elfmaniac, a reader of dictionaries, a sporadic chef, a lover of bizarre and unlovable animals, an amateur chemist, a wisenheimer, an indisputable dork

THINGS I AM NOT: an athlete, a bombshell, a user of profanity, a party girl, a fashion diva, a math prodigy, a racist, a follower of soap operas, a rap enthusiast, a feminist, a shopaholic, a vegetarian, a sun worshipper

FAVORITE WRITERS: Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brönte, William Shakespeare, Alfred Tennyson, Isaac Asimov, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, William Goldman, Douglas Adams

FAVORITE CHARACTERS: Gaius Cassius, Viola, Herbert Pocket, Ford Prefect, Sherlock Holmes, The Emergency Medical Hologram, aka "The Doctor", Edward Fairfax Rochester, Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce, Charles Emerson Winchester III, Maxwell Q. Klinger, Inigo Montoya, Kermit the Frog

WORKS: Two, at the moment. One completed Star Trek: Voyager vignette(because I'm a shameless nerd) and a work in progress in the MASH category.

FAVORITE QUOTES:

"People said I was dumb, but I proved them." - Philip J. Fry

"Wake up! Time for science!" - Adam Savage

"My revenge is simply that I'm still here." - Danny Elfman

"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats." - Mark Twain

"I'm going to live through this if it kills me." - Maxwell Q. Klinger

"Never let it be said that I didn't do the least I could do." - Hawkeye Pierce

"There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them." - Sherlock Holmes