and more!

Please call me ...		Susan, Susie, Suky, or Sanneke (my old German Club nickname--rhymes with "Hanukkah")--just about anything but "Sue"!
Occupation		Starving artist/author-to-be, currently working on my first novel; sometime freelance sign-language interpreter and web designer
Origins		Born in Queens, NYC, of German, Irish, and Dutch descent; moved to Rochester, New York, at the age of 4, where I've resided most of my life except for a year in Buffalo and a month in Germany
Personality type		INFP (Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving) Highly sensitive  Nocturnal ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) be sorted @ nimbo.net
Beliefs and values		Born-again/off-again (agnostic), non-denominational Christian with an appreciation for Taoist and Buddhist philosophies Animal-rights supporter Vegetarian since 1997 (except when there's sauerbraten or corned beef and cabbage involved, which is, fortunately, not too often)
Languages "spoken"		American Sign Language (Advanced Plus level) German (advanced intermediate/conversational) Irish Gaelic (intermediate) French (beginning) Spanish (four years of straight A's in high school and can remember just enough to read the menu in a Mexican restaurant) Cornish (beginning) Welsh (attempting to teach myself; know where I can find a teacher?)
Instruments played (sort of)		Guitar, piano, a little Irish tinwhistle (I need the sheet music though—my sister inherited all the musical genes!)
Hobbies		Irish stepdancing, German folk dancing (a.k.a. "schuhplattling"), learning languages, stained glass, quilting, drawing, calligraphy, sewing, walking, hiking, writing, reading, gardening, and making Web pages
Other likes		Animals; Celtic art; pirate lore and the sea; history; language; philosophy; religion; learning new things; compassion; honesty; enthusiasm; people who say what they mean (and mean what they say); cloudy, grey days; pizza; marzipan; sleeping; dreaming; and staying home
Dislikes		Never having enough time for all of the above (!), mornings, alarm clocks, schedules, decisions, driving, cigarette smoke, coffee fumes, competition, conformity, head games, indirectness, arrogance, pretentiousness, inconsiderate people, telemarketers, junk mail, judgementality and labels, and noise noise noise noise NOISE!!! (bah humbug)

Irish traditional
Baroque
Bluegrass
Guitar-based rock 'n' roll:
  '60s garage rock
  Bubble gum
  British Invasion
  Punk
  Psychedelic
  Paisley underground
  "Alternative" rock

Click here for a list of my all-time favorite songs and albums!

Bach
Beethoven
Boiled in Lead
The Byrds
The Chesterfield Kings 
The Chieftains
Nat King Cole
Delaney Brothers Bluegrass
Green Day
The Emigrants
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
The Monkees
R.E.M.
Queen
Ramones
Rolling Stones
The Troggs
The Who
Yardbirds

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Long John Silver: The True and Eventful History of My Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy to Mankind by Björn Larrson
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier

William Blake
Albrecht Dürer
Thomas Kinkade
Howard Pyle
Arthur Rackham
Frank Schoonover
Susan Seddon-Boulet

Jamaica Inn
Night of the Lepus
Quest of the Delta Knights
Soldiers Three

• Enormous restaurant patron Mr. Creosote (Terry Jones) ordering (and consuming) everything on the menu, only to be done in by the after-dinner mint ("It's wafer thin") in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• David Warner as the incarnation of Evil in Time Bandits accidentally zapping one of his minions into oblivion with a stray point of his finger, then interrupting his own tirade to say "Sorry"
• David Warner as scientist Dr. Alfred Necessiter going, "In my recovery room are two subjects who do nothing but this—[claps like a trained seal:] pthththththththththththth—but I think I've solved the problem," and recovering with a completely straight face, in The Man With Two Brains
• Graham Chapman as a misidentified messiah being chased to the edge of a Jerusalem rooftop with no possibility of escape, then looking up to find he's been rescued by an alien space ship (helmed by the universe's most comical-looking aliens) in Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Michael Palin as K-K-K-K-Ken in A Fish Called Wanda inhaling french fries—with ketchup *snort*
• Shemp Howard's face squished against the glass of an overcrowded phone booth in the Three Stooges' "Scrambled Brains"

Antonio Banderas
Tom Conti
Cyril Cusack
Peter Cushing
Timothy Dalton
Jonathan Frid
Ralph Fiennes
Richard E. Grant
Rutger Hauer
Dustin Hoffman
Christopher Lee
Bela Lugosi
Robert Newton
Basil Rathbone
Keanu Reeves
Alan Rickman
Geoffrey Rush
Michael Sheen
Timothy Spall
Wes Studi
David Warner
Forest Whitaker
Emlyn Williams

The Adventures of Long John Silver
Columbo
The Daily Show
Dark Shadows
Fawlty Towers
Forever Knight
Frasier
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
I Dream of Jeannie
Jeopardy!