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I'm a graduate student about to level up (in April). I'm pro at English Lit. k thx.

Hobbies: Climbing, cylcing, eating cake, eating pizza every effing day (almost), reading/writing (part and parcel of my class), photography, video games, respecting my mind.

My favorite books/plays/anthologies:

(I am death incarnate!): The Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius); Madness and Civilization and the History of Sexuality (Foucault); Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Jameson), Archive Fever (Derrida); Vamps and Tramps: New Essays (Paglia).

(Bring it on!): Snow Crash (Stephenson); White Noise (Delillo); Diving into the Wreck (Rich); Arcadia (Stoppard); Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Kristeva); Half-Humankind (Henderson/McManus); The Sublime Object of Ideology (Zizek).

(Don't Hurt Me!): Timequake, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Vonnegut); Neuromancer (Gibson); This Time (Stern); Diving into the Wreck (Rich); The Undertaking (Lynch); Great Expectations (Dickens); The Awakening (Alcott), Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Plath); The Hobbit & LOTR Trilogy (Tolkien).

(Can I play, daddy?): The Complete Romances of Chretien de Trois; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Poems of the Pearl Manuscript (Anon.); Le Mort D'Arthur (Malory); 1984 (Orwell); Brave New World; (Huxley); The Blazing World (Cavendish); Lipstick Traces (Marcus); A Change is Gonna Come (Werner).

Video Games: The Fallout Trilogy, Doom 2, Quake and Quake 2, GTA and GTA 2, Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario through Yoshi's Island, Dark Colony, Shadow Warrior, Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, Bushido Blade, The Worms Series, Total Annihilation and Portal.