Birthplace: Torrance, CA

Favorite color: Blue, all shades

Favorite food: Pizza and ice cream, and lots of each please

Favorite music: classic rock

Hobbies: Reading, writing, dancing, yoga, Pilates, watching movies, eating really good food

Career goal: Get a PhD in English Literature and become an English Professor at a small liberal arts college

Lifetime goal: Maintain a healthy work/life balance, make my husband the happiest man on Earth, give my future kids a warm, loving home, and inspire future students to fall in love with literature

Words to live to by: I don't have a favorite quote that inspires me each day; I just try to keep things in perspective, feel grateful for everything I have, and continue learning and growing.

Favorite book: East of Eden, by John Steinbeck, anything by Edith Wharton, all the Harry Potter books

Favorite movie: Shine, Shawshank Redemption, Monsters Inc.

Favorite actor/or actress: Jodi Foster and Meryl Streep, and I'm not going to lie...George Clooney and Brad Pitt

If you could be a celebrity for a day, who would it be? Why? Sadly, I'd be Paris Hilton, just to see what goes through her mind so I could maybe understand how she can justify acting the way she does...

Other Languages? No.

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? London

What is your favorite season and why? Well, back home in LA, we don't really have seasons, but out here, I like fall - no snow and no humidity!

If you could spend the day with anyone in the world, past or present, who would it be? John Steinbeck

Who is your favorite basketball player and why? I like Shaq; he looks like a big teddy bear...

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