All About You

[Isilya]

Name (that you go by): Isilya; Emmabug; Emmabean; Bean; Emma, Queen of the Yukon; yukonqueen

Age: 16 on Communist Worker’s Day (May 1st)

Occupation: Student by day, Elven Bounty Hunter by night.

Future Aspirations: Attend a good university (McGill, Queens), get a bad @ss job.

Goal in life: To be loved, deeply and truly.

Short term goals: Pass math, make the rowing team

Passion: Books, LOTR, Henry Cavill (mmm mmm good!), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and soccer

Hobbies: Poking fun at my sister, reading, and trying to emancipate myself from my parents

Famous for (okay this is where you get to brag about yourself): I’m the goalkeeper for my high school’s varsity soccer team, I’ve won numerous awards for French, and winning every argument I’m in (except those with my parents)

Fave book: It really is fairly pointless to ask me that. I go through two books a week. Right now, I’m reading the Fionavar Tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay. Other favorite books include:
Crazy for Cornelia
The Crystal Cave Trilogy
The Alienist
To Dance at The Palais Royale
The Princess Bride
Cold Sassy Tree
Oedipus Rex
Julius Caesar
Any Calvin and Hobbes book
Any Foxtrot book
The BFG
The Tattooed Potato and Other Mysteries
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion
The Prince
And the list goes on.

Fave movie: This one is a tough choice. I’d have to say either LOTR: FOTR, or Princess Mononoke, or Beauty and the Beast, or The Matrix, or The Count of Monte Cristo.

Fave sport: Soccer and Rowing

Fave store: Chapters

Fave music: My list for this is even longer than my book list.
Bach
Coldplay
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
Bugs Bunny: What’s Opera, Doc?
Barenaked Ladies
Dave Matthews Band
Norah Jones
Willie Nelson
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Nina Simone
The Beatles
Like any true Canadian: The Tragically Hip
Eric Clapton
Fastball
Matchbox 20
Howard Shore
Fine Young Cannibals
U2
Disney Music
Great Big Sea
Crambo. If you haven’t heard of them, I can’t blame you
Goo Goo Dolls
Louis Armstrong
George Harrison
Zebda
Radiohead
REM
The Muppets
The Guess Who
Credence Clearwater Revival
Queen
Chemical Brothers
War
No Doubt
Steppenwolf
Led Zeppelin

What you can't stand: Evil and Mean people, People who don’t tolerate differences

What you plain dislike: Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Essays, Romance Novels, the Water Temple in Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Bad Spellers

Who you admire: Tigger. He’s the only one!

What you most love to do: Read and listen to music

Your self-confessed flaws: Procrastination. Terrible Procrastination.

What intrigues/fascinates you: The possibility that there might actually be other worlds out there.

What scares you: Spiders, snakes, and Sheep eyes

Quotation to live by: At 15, I’ve found that the true meaning of life isn’t how much money you have, or what clothes you wear, it’s how far you can get while playing Chubby Bunny and not choke.
-Me
Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens
-Gimli Son of Gloin

Additional comments: www.geocities.com/yukonqueene/index

My website. Still under construction, somewhat, but the majority is done!

[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: Isilya ]

[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: Isilya ]

[ November 13, 2002: Message edited by: Isilya ]