Greetings and salutations!

My name is Ellen, and I live in New York.

I figured I needed to update this, but I don't really know what to say here. :) Haha.

I am now in college, so am a little pressed for time.

Some of my favorite TV/Movies/Anime are-

House, M.D. Doctor Who, Veronica Mars, and Buffy, Bleak House, North and South, The Godfather, The Matrix, High Noon, Alien vs. Predator, The Boondock Saints, Inside Man, The Painted Veil, Brick, Memento, Phantom of the Opera, Gattaca, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Moulin Rouge, Jane Eyre, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing, Ergo Proxy, Legend of Basara, Shingetsutan Tsukihime, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Death Note.

Some of my favorite books are-

Atlas Shrugged, Joseph Campbell, Dune, Ender's Game, Garth Nix, C.S Lewis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Hours, Celtic mythology, American Gods, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Shadow of the Wind, A Prayer For Owen Meany, Abarat, Hyperion, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, The Darkness that Comes Before, H.P. Lovecraft, Catch 22, Terry Pratchett, The Historian, Daughter of Time, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Issac Asimov.

Favorite quotes-

"Wow, that's a... man with a red clown nose on and underwear. With... nothing else..."
"That's like...the most frightening picture I've seen in 2 weeks."
"What did you see 2 weeks ago?"
"Someone showed me a picture of a cat run over by a truck."

I can bake thirty minute brownies in twenty minutes.

During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai E Stevenson 'Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!'
Stevenson replied 'That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!'

I love gay people, but I hate gay people who can't spell. Just like I hate straight, bisexual and transgender people who can't spell.

I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.

My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

A balanced diet is a muffin in each hand.

As James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA structure, says: "If we don't play God, who will?"

I enjoy reading, writing, debate, biology, any sort of political or philosophical activism, being moderate, and not doing homework!!

I hope you enjoy my stories and favorites!