1. what is your age range?
Will be 19 just after Christmas

2. gender?
Girl

3. Do you have a favorite color?
At the moment, dark red, but also really like green

4. favorite authors/ type of book?
G.K. Chesterton, 19th-mid 20th century fiction and (lyric) poetry (no free verse, please!), Catholic books, Aristotelian philosophy

5. what books have you really been wanting?
Anything from Chesterton's Father Brown series, anything by Hilaire Belloc (don't own any yet but really want to), "Teach yourself Irish Gaelic"

6. what type of music do you like?
Classical, old jazz, blues, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Manx, Breton, French, klezmer, Broadway (preferable old Broadway), organ music (especially French, like Vierne), medieval and Renaissance sacred polyphony (already have plenty of Palestrina)

7. what cds have you really been wanting?
Soundtrack to "Chicago" (movie, not the Broadway one)
Any klezmer cds (I don't have any yet!)
Anything by Frank Harte, Joe Heaney, Sean Keane, Steeleye Span, Silly Wizard, or Maggie Boyle.
Music of Tallis, Victoria, Hassler (sacred)

8. What movies (DVDs) have you been wanting?
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Any Audrey Hepburn movie except Breakfast at Tiffany's

9. what is your t-shirt size?
medium, but I don't wear t-shirts very much. More like sweaters.

10. do you collect anything? if so, what?
Catholic religious items (I guess you could call it a collection)

11. what are some of your other hobbies?
Hobbies, what hobbies? I'm a college student!

12. do you prefer gold-tone or silver-tone jewelry?
Silver, and yes I have pierced ears. Please no more St. Bridget's crosses.

13. please include anything else you feel is important that would help your secret santa know what you would like
Um, I think I've been pretty specific, but I do play the harp and piano, so fun instrument-related items are good (but no more jewelry, please!) I'm a college student, so I will accept less-perishable food items. Like tea. I really, really love good tea (herbal or otherwise). Please no not-in-bags tea, though, unless you send a tea ball that doesn't leak tea into the cup. I've had no luck with tea balls. And I really like chocolate. Dark chocolate. Mmmm, chocolate.