Name: Sara

Residence: Omaha, NE

Activities and Interests: awaiting my next arrival from Netflix, coveting things I can't afford, being a part-time poet and a full-time philosopher, reveling in the awesomeness of being a redhead, traveling, shopping (with my mom's money), reading, watching movies, writing, making fun of Twilight, Farmville, Facebook, Live Journal

Favorite Books: the Harry Potter series (JK Rowling), Watership Down (Richard Adams), Animal Farm (George Orwell), Life of Pi (Yann Martel), The Book Thief (Markus Zusack), The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini), Timeline (Michael Crichton), the Shopaholic series (Sophie Kinsella), A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing (Libba Bray), The House of Sand and Fog (Andre Dubus III), In Her Shoes (Jennifer Weiner), PS I Love You (Cecelia Ahern), The Divine Comedy: Inferno (Dante Alighieri), The Joy-Luck Club and Saving Fish From Drowning (Amy Tan),

Favorite Movies: 10 Things I Hate About You, Across the Universe, Adventures in Baby-Sitting, Beauty and the Beast, Big, Brokeback Mountain, Do the Right Thing, The Dark Knight, Elf, E.T., Finding Nemo, Girl Interrupted, The Goonies, Kill Bill, Legally Blonde, Lord of the Rings, Mean Girls, Mulan, The Mummy and Mummy Returns, Mystic River, National Treasure, The Patriot, The Rock, Run Lola Run, The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Titanic, The Usual Suspects

Favorite TV Shows: 24, 30 Rock, Alias, The Amazing Race, America's Next Top Model, Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Lost, Project Runway, Quantum Leap, Sex and the City, South Park, Survivor, The West Wing, The X-Files

Things I adore: Milo (my cat), Netflix, my iPod, my Mac, sleeping in on a rainy day, receiving letters and packages in the mail, payday, my coat from White House Black Market, being a redhead, high bids on e-bay, getting reviews for my stories (hint, hint!)

Things I loathe: driving when it's snowing or icy, people who don't use their blinkers, people who never turn off their blinkers, drivers who don't yield when there's a yield sign right in front of them, when a big-ass truck parks right next to you and you can't see when you pull out, waiting at a red light forever, when somebody sits down right next to you in a movie theater and there are plenty of other spaces, getting up early, bad grammar, when I'm watching a DVD and it's all scratched up, PEOPLE magazine, milk, Oprah (I blame her for Crash winning BP in 2006), when somebody with more than 20 items is in the 10 items or less line at the grocery store, January, anything to do with Twilight

As you can see, I enjoy writing fanfiction for Harry Potter and The Baby-Sitters Club. I've written many original stories and am working on my own novel right now and hope someday to get it published crosses fingers

Harry Potter stats:

Favorite Book: Deathly Hallows

Favorite Movie: Goblet of Fire and Half-Blood Prince

Least Favorite Movie: Prisoner of Azkaban (they ruined Ron's and Hermione's characters!)

Favorite Characters: Ron and Hermione (I like to brag that I share the same birthday with Hermione)

Least Favorite Characters: Hagrid and Dobby (though I felt bad when he died)

Ships I sail: Ron/Hermione (duh), Harry/Ginny, Bill/Fleur, Draco/Harry, Draco/Ginny

Baby-Sitters Club stats:

Favorite Books: mostly the Super Specials because they're super special!

Favorite Character: Claudia

Least Favorite Characters: Mallory, Jessi, and Dawn