Me in summary:

My name is Heather, and I am currently the resident of a Los Angeles suburb with a name that you would probably find humourous. 

I love to laugh.  I cry too much.  I am uncomfortable around people, but I love the company of friends.  According to personality tests, I am an introverted intuitive thinking judger. That classifies me as a green/scientist/mastermind.  I think it just means I'm a shy geek.  I am a cat person, but am generally fond of animals that look like the results of humourous genetic experiments.

I don't like children and I don't ever want any.

I have a profound interest in comparative religious studies and interfaith dialogue.  I have a love-hate relationship with academia.  I like learning and research and lots of things most people will find functionally useless in "the real world."   I read the world news regularly, I'm a Libertarian, I like to vote but wish my polling place had better parking.

Nihilists are silly.  I didn't preface that statement with "I think" because I'm pretty sure it's an objective fact.

I am a booknerd. My favourite fiction/etc writers are Tom Robbins (!!!), Barbara Kingsolver, Sherman Alexie, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, and Amy Tan.  As a general rule, I value characters over plots.  I hate sci-fi and fantasy novels with a few exceptions.  Mostly, however, I read tons of non-fiction, especially religion and philosophy and hard sciences and cultural studies.  I love books on the anatomy and geneics, and on body ritual and modification.  I am utterly enamored with the book Sacred Pain by Ariel Glucklich.  I used to work at a bookstore but was disapointed to find I was supposed to deal more with customers than with my beloved books.

I love semi-colons; I rarely use them correctly.
Yes, I know I used the semi-colon above correctly.

I have a weakness for Chinese Wuxia/martial arts films. I am also a fan of independent and low-budget foreign films in general, though I occasionally love me some typical Hollywood stuff.  Sometimes, I enjoy watching movies that are so ridiculously bad that I'm laughing for weeks.  I'll watch most anything once.

I watch TV rarely, usually it is anything on the Discovery Health Channel (except baby shows).  That said, I do enjoy the show Mythbusters and the cancelled HBO shows Oz and Carnivale.  Oh, and despite my sci-fi hatred, I like Firefly.

I enjoy music greatly; a fairly broaf range from metal to Irish folk music to trance. Though my favourite music genre is metal (prog or power), my favourite band is probably Depeche Mode and my favourite singer Ofra Haza (neither of which are metal). I love the emotional energy of a good song.

I love video games, and prefer PC over console.  I own an Atari.  I regularly play World of Warcraft with several of my real-life friends.  I don't go on dates Friday night, I go on raids to Zul Gurub.