About Me:: Sarah
Just a collection of extremely random things that pertain to me on some level or
another. Pictures of my dorm, pictures of me, pictures of my cat, quotes, random recollections...so, be afraid. Be very afraid.

Add a few bubble gum wrappers and some scribbled-on notebooks and this is me in a nutshell.

The view from my dorm window is awe-inspiring to say the least!

And I finally got a picture of me that looks like...well...me. It's a little washed out, but it actually looks like me! LOL. Sorry, it's just that so many of my digital photos don't bear much resemblance to me... I wish I knew how to do touch-ups in my editing programs, but as it is, I can only change the colors. Two of these are really washed out since I was standing by the window when they were taken. *laughs* I look really chubby-cheeked in most of my pictures, but not in real life. Explain that.

And the "wild hair" pictures. I look like I was attacked by a crimping iron.

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Yes that is the Killer Rabbit from Monty Python wearing shades...and Darth Tater
is also present (even though I've never watched Star Wars). My favorite thing on those shelves is my "Sarcastic" 8 Ball. Ask it a question and it comes back with "you wish," "as if," "fat chance," "screw you," etc.

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Age: 18

Location: Wisconsin

Email: sarahbeth_green_eyes@yahoo.com - but don't be offended if you don't
get a reply, my email inbox is black hole and Yahoo!SpamGuard likes to send
legitimate messages into the Bulk Mail Netherland.

Favorite Music Groups: Pink Floyd, Beatles, The Moody Blues, Simon & Garfunkel,
Leahy, Green Day, and The Goo Goo Dolls, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I normally listen to movie soundtracks while I write. My favorite soundtracks are Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, Braveheart, Gladiator, Enemy at the Gates, Schindler's List, Glory, Phantom of the Opera, and Titanic (hated the movie, loved the music).

Favorite Books: Memoirs of a Geisha; 101 Damnations; Jane Eyre; Dave Barry Does Japan; Eats, Shoots, and Leaves; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister; Wicked; The Darwin Awards; and many, many more. Seriously, if I'm not in class, sleeping, or hanging out with friends, I'm reading or writing. Erma Bombeck and Dave Barry are (or were, in Bombeck's case) two of my favorite authors. I'm a very sarcastic person, although I try not to write or behave sarcastically online lest I come across as a complete jerk!
Oh, and Harry Potter makes the top of the list, of course!

Favorite Movies: Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail, Forrest Gump,
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Monty Python's Life of Brian,
Monty Python's Meaning of Life (yes, I am a girl of limited interests!), The Phantom of the Opera, Ace Ventura, and all the Harry Potter films.

Favorite Musicals: Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Miss Saigon

Favorite T.V. Shows: Everybody Loves Raymond, Gilmore Girls, The Simpsons,
and Fire Me Please! (Yes, there is finally a reality show where people are trying to get fired. The Apprentice this is not!)

Favorite Food: Um, candy. It's really a medical miracle that I've reached the
age of eighteen without a single cavity, but it's only a matter of time!

Favorite Subjects: History and Anthropology are tops in my book. I'm most
interested in World War II and the events that preceded it. I also love English,
German, and Psychology. On my college class blacklist are Philosophy (gags) and Math.

Favorite Guys I'll Never Meet: Prince William, Jake Gyllenhaal, Timothy Goebel, James and Oliver Phelps, Dan Radcliffe, Milo Ventigmlia (?) (Jess from Gilmore Girls)

Favorite Actors and Actresses: Jim Carey, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Rupert Everett, Hugh Grant, Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Maggie Smith, Steve Martin, Ben Stiller, Alan Rickman, Richard Gere

Favorite Board Game: Monopoly, Scrabble, and Clue

Favorite Holiday: Halloween or Christmas

Favorite Travel Destinations: I've been to the Rocky Mountains (Estes Park, Colorado area) six or seven times and that's always fun, but my favorite spot is probably the Acadia region of Maine, or Nova Scotia. I'd love to go to the UK and Germany, or anywhere else in Europe really!

Favorite Sports: I love to play tennis and billiards. I love to watch guy's figure skating and the Olympics. I have never watched a football game all the way through in my entire life.

A Little About Me: I'll add more to this later...not feeling particularly creative at
the moment....

I came to college "knowing" what I wanted my major to be, but four months in, I'm a
bit adrift. I'm leaning towards secondary education (with a focus on History and English),
but I could go any which way right about now!

I used to play the flute, but I was never particularly talented (okay, okay, so I never
practiced) so I gave that up this summer.

I'm a proud member of College Democrats, but I must say that I fall among the
moderates and I'd certainly vote for a respectable Republican candidate like John
McCain or Chuck Hagel. George W. Bush, on the other hand...well...let's just be safe
and say "no comment." *cough!hack!cough!*

I speak English (no, duh) and German fluently and Spanish semi-fluently. I also know some Swahili and Japanese, and can read (but not write or speak) French, Dutch, and Yiddish.

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I went on a classic movie-watching spree this summer and I must say that I was by-and-large unimpressed. Gone with the Wind...let's see, the best thing was that the intermission. Really, really quaint. There was this steamboat that didn't move or do anything and some snazzy yet oddly depressing music. Anyway, I spent the whole movie waiting. waiting. waiting. for Rhett Butler to finally say "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" because, frankly, my dear, I knew the movie couldn't end until he'd said it. I called just about everything that happened in that movie. Bonnie was riding her little pony and I said to my friend, "who wants to bet she'll fall off and die" ... and she did. "Who wants to bet..." Yeah. That Margaret Mitchell. Quite the original author. Casablanca was equally uninspiring. Seriously, Boggart said "Here's looking at you kid" at least ten times, which sort of sapped the charm from that little saying as far as I'm concerned. The only real classic I got a kick out of was Duck Soup with the Marx Brothers.

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A few shameless plugs for music, movies, and books:
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is AMAZING. In my estimation, there was not a dull moment. I'm still angling for a seven hour HP movie, but for the time being, this is as good as we're going to have it.
- Memoirs of a Geisha comes out in theaters near you December 23. Don't miss it!
- Music-wise: Check out the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Beethoven's Last Night is an awesome compilation of tragedy and really inspiring music. I write 75% of my stuff while listening to this CD.
- And, book-wise: Gregory Maguire (author of Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister) ought to be canonized for sheer brilliance.

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Harry Potter-related:

Favorite characters: Hermione and Harry (obviously!) tie for first place,
followed by Minerva McGonagall, Remus Lupin, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood,
and Ron Weasley...then Arthur Weasley and Gred and Forge.

Least favorite Harry Potter character: Tonks. I hate hate HATE Tonks. If she doesn't die in Book Seven, I will be mightily disappointed. (Don't get too attached to Tonks in my Year Seven...just letting you know...) The worst part of it is, that I think J. K. Rowling LIKES Tonks, and that she meant her readers to like her...sorry, no.

Favorite book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Rank the books from best to worst: OotP, GoF, PoA, SS/PS, HBP, CoS

Favorite Harry Potter movie: PoA was more artistic and was paced nicely, but GoF was exciting and funny - darn that was a funny movie.

What character am I most like?: Hermione, for sure.

What House would I be in?: Ravenclaw (click here to get Sorted! This Hogwarts
House compatibility test is better than most!), I scored 100/100 (!) for Ravenclaw,
78/100 for Gryffindor, 22/100 for Slytherin and 34/100 for Hufflepuff.

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Aha! Just got back my Final grades for my first semester at college, and my lowest grade was an AB in Philosophy...and trust me, ME getting an "AB" in Philosophy was the result of a benevolent act of God. Otherwise, I got solid A's in History, Intro to Education, Spanish, and German, and a Pass in my Journalism practicum. If you REALLY want to see my grades plummet, stick me in a math class -- oh the pain, the exquisite agony of it all...

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Favorite Quotes:

These should fully demonstrate my randomness...

"Bipartisanship - I'll hug your elephant if you kiss my @$$."

“And when the night is cloudy | There is a light that shines on me |
Shine until tomorrow | let it be." -- Let it Be, the Beatles

"I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's
just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well, it's always the same. I always tell them--"
-- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (also to thank for the moose subtitles...)

"...and Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn."

Why George W. Bush is like a turtle on top of
a post: "You know he didn't get there by himself,
he doesn't belong there,
he can't get anything done while he's up there,
and you just want to help the poor dumb bastard get down."

Why we should REALLY be worried about Harriet
Miers - she says Dubya is the most brilliant man
she's ever met...methinks she needs to get out
more...

"Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to
stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Even, and
I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'Jehovah.'" -- Monty Python

"Is the BBC dumbing down?"

"...Including the majestik møøse..."

"No one expects the SPANISH INQUISITION!"

“Where there’s smoke, there’s toast.”

"A witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch!
A witch! We've got a witch! A witch! A witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! We've
found a witch! We've found a witch! A witch! A witch! A witch! Ohh! Ohh! Burn the
witch! Burn the witch! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her! Burn her!"

"Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti..."

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooder POTSDAM!" (Not funny to anyone but me and a select few G-town High grads)

“We could have been killed – or worse – expelled.” – Hermione Granger (getting her priorities straight)

"We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked,  have been sacked."

“Mom’s got a second cousin who’s an accountant, but we never talk about him.” – Ron Weasley

FRENCH GUARDS: C'est un lapin, lapin de bois. Quoi? Un cadeau. What? A present. Oh, un cadeau. Oui, oui. Hurry. What? Let's go. Oh. On y va. Bon magne. Over here...
[squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak...]
[clllank]
ARTHUR: What happens now?
BEDEVERE: Well, now, uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French, uh, by surprise. Not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!
ARTHUR: Who leaps out?
BEDEVERE: U-- u-- uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I, uh, leap out of the rabbit, uh, and uh...
ARTHUR: Ohh.
BEDEVERE: Oh. Um, l-- look, i-- i-- if we built this large wooden badger--

"We do try," said Ron [to Hermione]. "We just haven't got your brains or your memory or your concentration--you're just cleverer than we are--is it nice to rub it in?"

“Conjugate irregular verbs: I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool.”

“Not only has he broken my heart and wrecked my life, but he’s messed up my entire evening!” :lol:

And, to demonstrate how completely and utterly random I am...