ABOUT ME

My activities used to include many things, now I sit at my desk and read cases. But in the world of pre-law school Katy, where I have free time I like reading classic literature (mostly 19th century), baking up a storm, drinking tea & running with my dog.

PHILOSOPHY

I am a realist, intensely critical, cynical, sometimes even bitter but beneath all that I am a horrible, shameless, soggy romantic. I think basically that people are insane but they have the capacity to create, and that my friend is where all the beauty is found.

I am not saying that nature isn't wonderful, no. A perfectly ripe, tangy-sweet grapefruit simply cannot be improved upon, but beauty for me, at least where people are involved, is in the act of creation. Creating imaginative literature, a wild business plan, the different, ingenious ways people come up with to live their lives be it in law, love or what they stuff in their faces, that to me is important.

Interests

I love books. Especially books that take 10 pages to write what could be said in a sentence, (i.e. anything written in the 19th Century, but I am into historical fiction at the moment). I also love, love, love to cook, I am especially fond of baking and if I wasn't getting a J.D. Degree, I would be off at the Culinary Institute getting a degree as a pastry chef.

• dogs
• books
• literature
• beauty
• cooking
• baking
• running
• drinking
• reading
• business
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Finding Neverland, Amelie, Ratatouille, Finding Neverland, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont & Anything with Colin Firth, (Pride & Prejudice, Nanny McPhee, Love Actually), Mostly Martha, Vatel, Chocolat, Woman on Top.

Books: Jane Austin, Virginia Woolf, Machiavelli (he cracks me up) Emily Bronte, Du Maurier, J.R.R. Tolkien, Borges, Cortazar, Muriel Spark, Laura Esquivel, Anya Seton, Flaubert and of cource Roald Dahl who you can learn more about on the ever enlightening http://www.roalddahl.com/)Douglas Adams, Helen Fielding (for a little fluff), dare I say it? J. K. Rowling, Madhur Jaffrey (she writes cook books, but they are really good!), Sue Townsend, Hawthorne, Neruda, Eavan Boland (poetry), Flannery O'Connor(oh yes please!, Dumas, Charles Dickens (but only for his 2ndary characters)... Stella Gibbons, Sue Townsend, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and a lot of other people...

Music:
Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Alejandro Sanz, Ella Fitzgerald, Santana, Billie, Eartha Kitt, Vivaldi, Haydn, Bacilos, Julietta Venegas, Brigitte Bardot, Dixie Chicks, Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, Clapton, Hendrix, Jack Johnson, Macy Grey, Mana, Lilly Allen, Paolo Nutini, Nat King Cole, Pink Martini, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Shakira, SheDaisy, Squirrel Nut Zippers,

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, France, Paraguay, Peru, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, France, United States

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