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[Sharon]

***Name:
Sharon

***Nicknames/IDs:
azriona

***Age:
29 next month

***Family:
One husband, and temporary foster parent to two cats

***Home
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

***Birthday, Place of Birth:
15 September, California

***Education/Job/Role in Life etc:
BA in Theatre/Photography; Housewife (mwahahahaha)

***Other things we might want to know about you:
I'm in Kyrgyzstan for the next year; my husband works for the US 
Embassy here.  (No, he cannot get you a visa.)  I went to the HP 
Convention Alley last year where I co-presented a paper on Peter 
Pettigrew - I'm not the most die-hard fan of his, but I do firmly 
believe that he is not all he seems to be, and I get rather upset 
when people dismiss him or write him off as pure evil.

***First contact with Harry Potter:
My boss's daughter had read the books, loved them, and lent them all 
to us.  I read the first one in five days on the bus to and from work.

***Favourite Potter things (books, characters, ships, fics, objets
d'Art, general enthusing):
I have a thing for HP Lego, actually.  I also own a really awesome HP 
matroshka doll.  (Those are the Russian kind that stack inside each 
other.)

***Extent of Potter obsession:
Well, I did go to a convention in another country where I did a 
presentation...and there's a rumor around the embassy that my curio 
cabinet is full of HP things.  I also bribed a new embassy member to 
hand-carry the sixth book for me last month, so I wouldn't have to 
wait the month it would have otherwise taken.  (I got it one week 
after its release, at 9pm that Friday, and read straight through to 
8am the following day, with a four hour nap.)  Oh, and my current 
cross-stitch project is Harry and the Mirror of Erised; I estimate 
it'll take me about 3 years to finish.

***Other interests/activities:
Cooking, baking, writing, reading, photography, cross-stitch, seeing 
as much of Kyrgyzstan as I can while we're here.  Oh, and serious 
research into Britain during 1935-1948.

***Current/recent reading:
The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in 
Germany 1944-45 by John Nichol and Tony Rennell

***Current/recent listening:
Kyrgyz radio is excellent.  A typical playlist goes as follows: Billy 
Joel, Russian pop, Turkish pop, Ghostbusters theme song, Kyrgyz folk 
music, Britney Spears, ABBA, Elvis, Russian pop, Russian torch song, 
weird European techno (currrently the "crazy frog" song, if anyone 
knows it...)

***Current/recent viewing:
I just got Seasons 1-4 of the BBC version of "Coupling", so I'm going 
through that episode by episode.  Is much fun, but the husband 
doesn't like it (he's odd), so we spent last night watching "The 
Natural", and then the tail end of "The Truman Show".


Not sure who invited me, but thanks - I'm looking forward to some 
good discussions.

--az