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- About Me:
- I am a cranky, liberal, Italian-American, Episcopalian, Bronx-born, Jersey-bred 40-year-old part-time working mother/part-time SAHM currently buckling under the demands — and the joys! Don’t forget the joys! — of two colorful young sons; a husband who steadfastly refuses to be George Clooney; two cats (one old, one stupid); and a craptacular, 100-year-old house.
- What's something about your kid(s) that makes you happy?
- They love each other a lot, they still like to kiss and snuggle with me, they love to read/be read to, other kids seem to really like them, and it has been ages since either of them has held up a 7-11.
- What's your most recent kid-related public humiliation?
- At a baptism at our church recently, which was held — as baptisms customarily are — during our regular Sunday service, our atheist 5-year-old demanded to know, "Why am I here? Who is this kid?"
- What about contemporary parenting culture pisses you off the most?
- People who treat parenting as if it is a project or experiment, rather than a relationship, and an entirely unique one at that.
- Who were you BEFORE you became a parent?
- I was someone who cooked a lot more, traveled a lot farther, smoked, cared way too much about work, and didn't necessarily worry so much about the state of the world.
- What are you nerdy about?
- I am a complete Anglophile. I am fairly certain, in fact, that I actually am British, all evidence to the contrary. I am a British person who just happened to be born in the Bronx to Italian-American parents. (Maybe like a crazy right-winger, I'll demand to see my own birth certificate.) Everything British is fabulous, especially the TV. That said, I am also nerdy about following rules (with the exception of the rules of the road); straightening up before bed; politics; history documentaries and, sigh, historical reenactment performances (Colonial Williamsburg, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Hancock Shaker Village, the Ben Franklin impersonator who bops around Independence Hall, all that stuff); and grammar.
- Favorite music/books/TV/movies:
- Music: punk, pop/punk, some country, 80s New Wave, 80s/90s college rock
Books: British mysteries, all other mysteries, Jane Austen, William Faulkner, historical non-fiction, historical fiction, and the three Franken-novels I have in various sad stages of development
TV: Oh, good Lord, this is a long list. Anything on BBC America and HGTV, plus "Intervention," "Lost," "The Office," and "30 Rock." "Mad Men," which is the best thing I've ever seen, I think. Premium cable stuff like "The Sopranos" and "Deadwood" (back in the day), "The Tudors," "Dexter," "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," and "Party Down." Also, about a million canceled-too-soon shows over the past decade, especially "Freaks and Geeks," "Aliens in America," "Andy Richter Controls the Universe," and "Swingtown."
Movies: Jaws, Trading Places, The Godfather I and II, Mystic Pizza, Goodfellas, and every single period piece and costume drama ever made, especially if a British cast is involved.
- OPTIONAL: Do you have a sex life?
- I do. But don't tell my husband.
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