Updated as of August 2, 2007.

Hey! Welcome to my profile page!

For those of you that have stopped by before, you might notice I've made some adjustments. Why, you may ask? Well, I was getting pretty tired of looking at the same old thing. And, let's face it, my profile...blah. It needed a complete reorganization. Hopefully it's a bit easier to read now that it's not as wordy. (Not that many people will actually read the whole thing anyway; if you do, you have my admiration.) So, on to the good stuff:

Some facts about me:

- Name: Amanda, but I go by my nickname, Ana, on the internet

- Age: 16

- Location: Rhode Island (For those of you who don't know, that's the smallest state in the U.S.)

- Occupation: High School Student

- Hobbies: Reading, writing fanfiction, writing poetry, listening to music, cooking, traveling, tennis, history, geography, mythology (especially Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Celtic), anime, scrapbooking, writing to penpals, and photography

- Likes/Loves: Animals, different cultures, romance stories, reading fanfiction, trivia games, Ireland, Asian and Mexican food, receiving constructive criticism, reviews, any of the hobbies listed above

- Dislikes/Hates: Math, racism, reading slash, summer homework, disrespectful or rude people, horror movies, procrastination, tomatoes, spiders

Any questions? No? Okay, then.

Other Accounts/Notices:

Non-Lost Fanfiction: www.fanfiction.net/~irishmagic

Photography & some poetry: http://irishmagic.deviantart.com

Poetry & my ongoing fantasy story: www.fictionpress.com/~irishmagic or www.urbis.com/IrishMagic

Attention all writers: Need help finding a beta reader? Trying to find a fanfiction challenge? Have an announcement or looking for staff for a forum or C2? Just want to share what you're up to or your feelings on Writers' Block or being a writer? Check out my general writing forum at: http://www.fanfiction.net/ft/928551/19514/1/

98 percent of teenagers do or has tried smoking pot. If you're one of the 2 percent who hasn't, copy & paste this in your profile.

If you've ever tried Alchemy by clapping your hands together or by drawing a transmutation circle, copy and paste this into your profile.

Favorites

Actresses:

- Mariska Hargitay

- Rachel Weisz

- Evangeline Lilly

- Jill Hennessy

- Julia Stiles

- Emily Deschanel

- Holly Marie Combs

- Anne Hathaway

- Sandra Bullock

- Natalie Portman

- Keira Knightley

- Angelina Jolie

- Liv Tyler

- Emma Watson

Actors:

- Dominic Monaghan

- Josh Holloway

- Jerry O'Connell

- David Boreanaz

- Viggo Mortenson

- Orlando Bloom

- Hugh Jackman

- Christopher Meloni

- Daniel Radcliffe

TV Shows:

- Lost (obviously)

- Crossing Jordan

- Bones

- The Closer

- Law & Order: Special Victims' Unit

- CSI

- Without a Trace

- House

Anime/Cartoons:

- FullMetal Alchemist

- Avatar: The Last Airbender

- Fruits Basket

- Inuyasha

Books:

- Harry Potter

- Artemis Fowl

- Mediator

- Drowning Anna

- Children of the River

- The Secret Within

- The Prophecy of the Stones

- The Truth About Forever

- Just Listen

- A Step From Heaven

- Sold

- Blackthorne Winter

- Speak

Authors/Poets:

- J.K. Rowling

- Laurie Halse Anderson

- Sarah Dessen

- Meg Cabot

- Edgar Allen Poe

- William Blake

- Emily Dickinson

- Thoreau

- Emerson

Movies:

- The Lord of the Rings trilogy

- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

- Pirates of the Caribbean

- Pride & Prejudice

- The Mummy & the Mummy Returns

- National Treasure

- Night at the Museum

- The Holiday

- Hotel Rwanda

- X-Men

- Harry Potter

- Transformers

- Tomb Raider

- The Last of the Mohicans

Music:

- Irish

- Soundtracks

- Rock

- Classical

- Japanese

- Pop

Singers/Solo Artists:

- Kelly Clarkson

- Enya

- Sarah McLachlan

- Anna Nalick

- James Blunt

- K.T. Tunstall

Bands/Groups:

- U2

- Evanescence

- Creed

- All-American Rejects

- Coldplay

- Nickelback

- Switchfoot

- Green Day

- Finger Eleven

Songs:

- "Once in Every Lifetime" by: Jem

- "Concrete Angel" by: Martina McBride

- "Chasing Cars" by: Snow Patrol

- "Indelible Sin" by: Nana Kitade (FMA Soundtrack)

- "Move Along" and "It Ends Tonight" by: All-American Rejects

- "Cry" and "Tears and Rain" by: James Blunt

- "Breathe," "Forever Love," and "Citadel" by: Anna Nalick

- "White Flag" by: Dido

- "Rewrite" by: Asian Kung-Fu Generation (FMA Soundtrack)

- "Angel" and "Fallen" by: Sarah McLachlan

- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by: Green Day

- "Breakaway," "Sober," and "Irvine" by: Kelly Clarkson

- "It's in the Rain," "Only Time," and "The River Sings" by: Enya

- "Arms Wide Open" by: Creed

- "Savin' Me" by: Nickelback

- "Collide" by: Howie Day

- "Bad Day" by: Daniel Powter

- "Fix You" by: Coldplay

- "Meant to Live" by: Switchfoot

- "Calling All Angels" and "When I Look to the Sky" by: Train

Characters:

- Lost: Sawyer, Charlie, Hurley, Sayid

- CJ: Nigel, Jordan, Woody

- Bones: Brennan, Angela, Hodgins, Booth

- The Closer: Brenda, Gabriel, Provenza, Flinn, Buzz, Fritz

- L&O: SVU: Olivia, Munch

- WaT: Sam, Danny, Martin

- CSI: Grissom, Nick, Warwick, Greg, Sarah

- House: House, Chase, Foreman

- FMA: Maes Hughes, Havoc, Hawkeye, Roy Mustang, Winry, Ed, Al

- Avatar: Katara, Sokka, Aang, Momo, Appa, Iroh

- HP: Hermione, Sirius, Remus, Professor McGonagal, Weasley twins, Neville, Tonks

- LOTR: Legolas, Arwen, Merry & Pippin, Aragorn, Sam

- Narnia: Susan, Lucy, Mr. Tumnus

- POTC: Jack, Gibbs, Marty, Will, Barbossa

- X-Men: Wolverine, Storm, Rogue

- Inuyasha: Shippo, Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku

Current Obsessions

CD: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Soundtrack or "My December" by: Kelly Clarkson

Song: "Irvine" by: Kelly Clarkson

Singer/Group: Kelly Clarkson/Snow Patrol

Movie: Transformers

Book: "Sold" by: Patricia McCormick

TV Show: The Closer

Anime: FMA

Hobby: Fanfiction writing, reading, & photography

Lost Pairings I Support/Love

PB&J/Chaire/CC- Claire & Charlie

Jate- Jack & Kate

Hubby- Hurley & Libby

Sin- Jin & Sun

Shayid- Shannon & Sayid

Denny/Den- Desmond & Penny

Favorite Lost Quotes

"I'm a big guy. It's gonna be awhile before you're gonna want to give me a piggyback ride." - Hurley

"Baby, I am tied to a tree in the jungle of mystery. I just got tortured by a damn spinal surgeon and a genuine Iraqi. Of course I'm serious." - Sawyer to Kate

"Rich idiots fly to tropical islands all the time to whack balls around!" - Hurley

"So what, you gonna say no? You some sorta navel-gazing, no fun, mopey type?" - Sawyer to Kate

"Yeah, well you seriously need to think about giving that license back." - Jack to Boone

"So, what's his story? He looks kind of dying." -Hurley about the Marshal

"Figured she'd get ya to do her dirty work for her. So what, we gonna wrestle for it?" - Sawyer to Jack

"It looks like you fixed everything but the patient." - Jack to his father

"Hope is a very dangerous thing to lose." - Sayid

"My theory? They're aliens. That's why they use the fake beards; their heads are made from prosthetics." - Sawyer on the Others

"Why not? I remember it from the plane's manifest. I think Leslie's a bitchin' name." -Hurley to Arzt

"You heard screams so you woke up the baby and ran towards them?" - Charlie to Claire

"Well, well, well. I don't know if you Islams have a sense of karma, but I get the sense this island just served you up a heaping platter of cosmic payback." -Sawyer to Sayid

"It's the French; the French are coming! I've never been so happy to hear the French!" - Charlie

"You people think you're the only ones on this island doing anything of value. I got news for you. There are forty other survivors of this plane crash, and we are all people too." - Arzt to Hurley

"I could be your friend. We don't have to do each other's hair or anything." - Charlie to Claire

"So a tribe of evil natives planted a ringer in the camp to kidnap a pregnant girl and a reject from VH-1 has-beens. Yeah, fiendishly clever." - Sawyer to Walt

"Doctor playing golf. Woo, boy howdy, now I've heard everything. What's next, cop eating a donut?" - Sawyer

"Whoa...that was, like, a jedi moment." - Hurley

"Ooooh, afraid the trees are going to get us?" - Sawyer to Sayid

"Fine, I'm the criminal. You're the terrorist. We can all play a part. Who you want to be?" - Sawyer

"I'm sorry, I must have confused it with the 900 trillion I myself am worth. And this baby's made a chocolate lollipop; so if you'll excuse us, I'm going to flap my wings and fly off this island." - Charlie to Hurley about claiming to win the lottery

"It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side." - Rose to Charlie

"So, how does it feel? Taking my place at the top of everyone's most hated list. Sucks, don't it?" - Sawyer

"From what, Southern perverts?" - Kate when Sawyer's excuse for following her is that he was protecting her, not stalking her.

"Well, who needs men, right? Bloody useless." - Charlie

"Dude! It looks like someone steamrolled Harry Potter!" - Hurley on Sawyer's glasses

"I saw a guy lying there with an ankle holster so I took the gun. I thought it might come in handy. Guess what? I just shot a bear." - Sawyer

"Is he your new boyfriend?" - Shannon to Boone about Locke

"Oh, of course. I don't need protecting. I can take care of myself. Me Kate. Me throw rock." - Sawyer

"Better than the three of you wandering into the magic forest to bag a hunk of ham with nothing but a little bitty hunting knife? Hell no, it's the best idea I ever heard." - Sawyer

"We've all been through a trauma. The only difference is that since the crash you've actually given yourself a pedicure." - Boone to Shannon

"I wouldn't worry, love. I mean, you tell me, who would you rather meet in a dark alley? Whatever's out there or that geezer with his four hundred knives? I mean, who packs four hundred knives? Personally I would only havespace for two hundred- three hundred at most." - Charlie to Claire

"Locke? The guy's a freak of nature. Highly disturbed. Chances are he probably killed all his mates at the post office the day his mum forgot to put a cookie in his lunch tin."- Charlie

"Guys...Where are we?"- Charlie

"Great. Now our only hunter's going to get eaten just so he can get the pregnant girl some more water." - Claire to Charlie

"All I'm going to get for my trouble is a snappy one-liner. And if I'm real lucky, a brand new nickname." - Jack to Kate about helping Sawyer

"I'm an ordinary man, Jack, meat and potatoes. I live in the real world. I'm not a big believer in magic. But this place is different. It's special. The others don't want to talk about it because it scares them. But we all know it. We all feel it. Is your white rabbit a hallucination? Probably. But what if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?"- Locke

"...A leader can't lead until he knows where he's going." - Locke to Jack

"Really? Then you explain to me why Kate gets the best pieces of wreckage to build her shelter? And the Korean guy? Does he catch fish for everybody on the island? No, he does not. He doesn't. And some of us have actually lost weight while we were here. Now, would you mind telling me where you're hiding all the carbs because I can't figure..."- Arzt to Hurley

"God knows how long that dynamite has been out there. And from what I can tell, Madam Nutso doesn't seem too concerned with how to handle it. So, unless you want to blow up, I'm coming with you."- Arzt

Writing Updates & Reminders

Announcements: The prologue to the story of Hurley's "Survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 Reunion" is now up! I was planning to finish Down the Hatch first before starting The Gathering, but my mind wasn't cooperating, and I've been caught up in the Choices Series for so long that I really needed a break. Don't worry, I'm still determined to update that series sometime within the next month, and I'm actually hoping to finish it completely before school starts again, although that's a little unlikely with all the other stuff I have to do. Still, you can at least expect an update for Down the Hatch within the next couple of weeks, and there will probably also be an update for The Gathering within the next week or so.

Just a reminder: Alex's oneshot has been put aside for now due to lack of updating and a major writers' block...Note: This doesn't mean I'm not doing it, I'm just focusing on finishing Down the Hatch first until I can make sense of all the information we know about Alex and her relationship with Ben and the Others. There are a lot of unanswered questions I'll have to work with in order to delve into her mind, and it's easier to concentrate on the characters we know better first...

In other news, I also have a couple of other story ideas floating around, which I might try out sooner or later, most likely also after I've gotten all of the Choices Series done and after I've finished The Gathering. Just to give you all a general idea of some of the fanfics I've got in mind, here's the summary of a Shayid fic I'm planning to start later on: As Shannon & Sayid grow closer, Shannon begins to feel guilty about what happened at the airport before they both boarded Oceanic Flight 815. Sayid doesn’t know it was her that told security about him being a possible terrorist, but it’s only a matter of time before he remembers. Will Shannon tell Sayid the truth before it’s too late? Or will their relationship end before it's even gotten started?

Thanks for everyone's continued support!

LostObsession, a.k.a. Ana

The Choices Series

1.) What's Best: Ch. 1- Desperation (Michael's POV); Ch. 2- For a Price (Walt's POV)...Complete

2.) Just My Luck: Ch. 1- Cursed (Hurley's POV)...Oneshot, Complete

3.) Not Perfect: Ch. 1- The Burden of a Leader (Jack's POV)...Oneshot, Complete

4.) Daring to Trust: Ch. 1- Itching For a Confrontation (Sawyer's POV);Ch. 2- Returning the Favor (Kate's POV)...Complete

#5.) Down the Hatch: What Have We Done?: Ch. 1- Protector of Faith (Eko's POV); Ch. 2- Completely Suicidal (Charlie's POV); Ch. 3- A Broken Believer (Locke's POV); Ch. 4- The Last Resort (Desmond's POV)...Current Project- 1st chapter completed; 2nd & 3rd chapters in-progress

# = Titles & Names of chapters subject to change