~Herself~

VITALS: I was born April 10, 1978, in Minneapolis, Minneosta. Though I no longer live there, I still consider it home. I answer to Mumtaz or Morrigan online. I am currently a grad student at the University of Chicago finishing up a thesis on the ethnicity of the Celts.

IDLE PURSUITS: I have been a horse lover all of my life, and I hope to have one (or several) of my own someday soon. I have been riding English (hunter/jumper) since I was eight years old. I follow horse racing religiously, and I am a participant in several groups that rescue abused, neglected, and otherwise unwanted racehorses. I am also an equine artist, and an avid reader and writer.

LITERATURE: I read mostly fiction---fantasy, historical fiction, mysteries, some sci-fi---and the non-fiction I read is mostly historical in nature ---Classical history, horse racing history, and linguistic history. Some of my favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien, Connie Willis, Mary Stewart, Jane Austen, Barbara Michaels/ Elizabeth Peters, George R.R. Martin, and J.K. Rowling.

MUSIC: I listen to a variety of music, predominantly goth, punk, 80's, and Celtic, but other types as well, depending on my mood. Favorites include The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Rancid, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Faith and the Muse, Delerium, Rasputina, The Cruxshadows, Switchblade Symphony, Mediaeval Baebes, Duran Duran, XTC, The Beatles, Madness, Loreena McKennitt, Andy M. Stewart, Clandestine, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, The Pogues, and more.

MOVIES: I like costume dramas especially, particularly Braveheart, Les Pacte Des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf), The Red Violin, Pirates of the Caribbean, Elizabeth, Sense and Sensibility, Orlando, and others. I like a variety of others, as well, like The Wicker Man, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Mean Machine, Dogma, The Sting, Roman Holiday, Seabiscuit, Phar Lap, The Black Stallion, The Black Stallion Returns, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Buckaroo Bonzai, and others.