Really late to the Mixer

[Trisha Masen]

Okay, here are my answers.....

Name:  Trisha

Age/Sex:  32/female

Birthplace/Livingplace and feelings about same:  Born in Oxnard, CA and very glad to be gone from that particular city, though not the state.  Currently live in Philadelphia and it's still hard to get used to living in an urban environment.

Family Life:  Hubby of nearly five years, daughter who will be four in January.

Personality:  shy in groups (people who don't know me well tend to think I'm standoffish or rude); can be quite obnoxious when around friends; sort of know-it-all due to too many years of reading the encyclopedia and watching Jeopardy.

Words friends have used to describe you:  fun, boisterous (and I'm sure a few others)

Words you have used to describe you:  precise, nitpicky, fun (I hate describing myself)

Things you do when not staring at the computer:  um...I'm supposed to do other things?  Read books.

Comfort foods:  chocolate

Education/Work:  Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (10 years ago...OMG), but working as a back-up coordinator in the souped-up word processing center of a law firm

Language Skills: English (most days).  Can sort of read Spanish, less with writing it and even less listening to it.

Technical Know-How:  I'm geeky.  I'm the tech-geek at work.  I can do lots of stuff with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  For hardware?  I've installed components in computers (in fact, my desktop computer is awaiting installation of a new video card).  I have a desktop computer, laptop computer, Palm Pilot, and cell phone.

Favorite HP book:  Order of the Phoenix for character development and Goblet of Fire for plot.  Though, I'm reading the series to my daughter and we're almost at the end of Chamber of Secrets and I'm beginning to see things in that I didn't see before.

Favorite HP character:  Harry

Favorite HP line:  "It unscrews the other way" - McGonagall to Peeves

Watching/Avoiding the HP movies:  I got into the books by seeing the first movie.  I saw the movie and was sucked into the universe.  Then I bought all four books and read them twice before finding the online communities.

Into HP fanfiction?  it's an addiction

Books you'd recommend to just about anyone:  don't know.  Most of my book reading is romance novels.

Favorite TV shows:  don't watch much TV anymore, but all time favories are The X-Files, Star Trek: TNG, Enterprise, Charmed

Favorite Movies:  Gone With the Wind, Indiana Jones trilogy, Apollo 13 and I'm sure a few others.  A total guilty addiction is Days of Thunder.

Favorite Musical Artists:  80s stuff, namely Duran Duran (they were my first fandom addiction and still are after 20 years)

One thing about your life you'd change if you could:  money situation (hubby unemployed for 18 months) and weight

One thing about your life you wouldn't change even for an advance copy 
of Book 7:  my daughter

Philosophy for an easy life:  realize there are things you can't change and things you can.  Change the things you can and have a good place to vent about the things you can't.

How you found HPFGU:  I think it was in somebody's sig

Active at other HP sites:  Fiction Alley/Fiction Alley Park, Gryffindor Tower, checkmated!, Portkey

Your most rock solid Book 6 or Book 7 prediction:  Harry will have a romantic relationship that is better than that with Cho; Dumbledore dies

Take a moment to wave to members of the fandom you have personally met: none

~Trisha~

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