Philothea

I am serving for a second year in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, working as a reading specialist at a Catholic school on an Indian reservation.

My favorite diaries:

Colin-G profile - diary
comments: Is into SCA and politics.
Guysinmakeup profile - diary
comments: Guysinmakeup=A girl who likes guys in makeup. Someday she will find that portal into Middle Earth.
Perceptions profile - diary
comments: "I like telling you this because it's none of your business." The most popular diary in diaryland.
Playboymommy profile - diary
comments: A newly minted graduate from Kenyon like me.
Qoheleth profile - diary
comments: Brilliant and gives me lots fo thoughts to chew on.
Quoted profile - diary
comments: The best way to find interesting diaries. One of my "favourite entries" about guysinmakeup was quoted.
Tashkent profile - diary
comments: Life in Turkmenistan.
The-Bookgirl profile - diary
comments: Not really a girl anymore, but still a bibliophile.
Widower profile - diary
comments: A wonderful writer.
Megan-mpm profile - diary
comments: Teaching English in Japan.
DoubleW profile - diary
comments: Reporter man in Montana
Spaltor profile - diary
comments: Really cool person
Skibigsky profile - diary
comments: skiier
Eastofeden profile - diary

My favorite music:

The Beatles
Ella Fitzgerald
Kelly Clarkson
Carole King
Frank Sinatra

My favorite movies:

Bedazzled
comments: 1969 original with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Very funny, and I often quote in in real life. Then everybody looks at me strangely, because they haven't seen it.
Casablanca
comments: Too many good lines to quote.
The Maltese Falcon
comments: I love Bogart. I even had a life-size poster of him in my room.
Clean Slate
comments: Every time you go to sleep you lose your memory!
The Pirates of the Caribbean
comments: Granted, I am going out on a limb here as the movie isn't out for a few more weeks. But it has zombie pirates in it. Savvy?

My favorite authors:

G. K. Chesterton
comments: The Man who was Thursday. Orthodoxy. Heretics. Father Brown. The Ball and the Cross. Many other great works. My profile quote is from him. Also good: Augustine, Thomas a Kempis, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton.
Homer
comments: The poet. Also: Sappho, Sophocles, Herodotus.
Walker Percy
comments: Southern Catholic perceptive of our times. Also: Henry James, Edith Wharton, Henry Fielding, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, A. E. Housman, Christina Rossetti, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Charlotte Bronte, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Pe
Boethius
comments: This guy makes me drunk. Also: Marcus Aurelius, Catullus, Virgil, Livy, Seneca, Suetonius and Tacitus.
Terry Pratchett
comments: Read a Discworld novel, any one. Then fall in. Also: Isaac Asimov, C. L. Moore, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Orson Scott Card, Lewis Carroll, William Goldman, Diana Wynne Jones, and Diane Duane.

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last updated: 2005-06-21 00:11:06
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