BellaDonna's profile

Hometown

Baltimore, MD

Places I've been

Places I've lived: Baltimore, MD Places I've been: Las Vegas, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Italy, U.K., France Places I'd like to see: New Orleans, Grand Canyon, England, Ireland, Italy Places I'd like to see again: London, Paris, Rome

More about me

I'm currently working in the IT department of a VA hospital, but in the past I've done everything from selling camera and photography supplies to board game design (ok, it was only one!) to pizza delivery. I consider myself to be a well-rounded geek; in addition to the computer stuff I've been active in the Baltimore/Washington SF fannish community since the '70s. I love to travel and take photos, watch movies, read, spoil my cats (3), plan my next Halloween party, and putter around the garden. I hope to do more of these things after I retire, which should be somewhere around the time hell freezes over or my lottery investment comes in. Meanwhile, I plan on squeezing as much fun out of life as free time allows.

I don't look on this time as the downhill side of life; it's more like long, exhilarating run down a ski jump with a "yee-hahhhhh!" at the end.

Favorite Movies

Last movie I saw: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (I give it a B-minus) Movies I'll watch over and over (in no particular order): Kill Bill 1/2, Iron Man, Pulp Fiction, Sense and Sensibility, Galaxy Quest, Casablanca, Lord of the Rings, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, Citizen Kane, Forbidden Planet, Day the Earth Stood Still, Army of Darkness, Casablanca, A Christmas Story, Hogfather

Favorite TV Shows

Currently - NCIS and Numb3rs, CSI (Grisom not Caine), most anything on the Discovery Channel, some Sci-Fi channel stuff. From back in the day - Mash, Hill Street Blues, Addams Family, and Star Trek, of course.

Favorite Charities

I give where the need is the greatest.

Activities

Photography, gardening, reading (horror, fantasy and sf), attending sf/horror conventions, wathching movies (ditto), collecting vintage Halloween decorations, feeding large groups of people.

Favorite Music

All kinds of rock, most classical, some jazz, but no country and/or western.

Favorite Books

Currently reading: 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories. Favorite Authors: Terry Pratchett, Christopher Moore, Neil Gaiman, Connie Willis, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allen Poe Books that I'll re-read: Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett (actually just about anything by Pratchett), American Gods - Neil Gaiman, The Homecoming - Ray Bradbury, To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis, Lamb - Christopher Moore

Favorite Quotes

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker, (attributed)

Favorite Places

Edinburgh, Scotland. And the little town in Italy where my father was born, in the mountains above Rome.

Favorite Animals

I love all critters, with the exception of the ants that keep invading my kitchen.

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