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Name: Andrea Hartmann
Aliases: These days, usually Mullenkamp or Avendasora... Though I've been unable to completely phase out Ellcrys.
Birthdate: May 15, 1977
Location: Kalamazoo, MI (yes, it really exists!)
Ethnicity: Human. That's good enough for me.
Current Desktop: Wallpaper available in the desktop graphics section.
Occupation: Unemployed, but occasionally I take artwork or costume commissions...
Dependants: Two adorable rabbits named Zipper and Teddy
Fav Color: Violet/Purple
Fav Food: Italian... I love garlic and/or parmesan. Chocolate and peanut butter are up there near the top of the list too.
Fav (NA) Shows: That 70s Show, Frasier... only things I ever watch any more.
Fav Movies: Lord of the Rings, UHF, Falling Down, the entire Lethal Weapon series, Labyrinth, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, A Hard Day's Night (if you haven't figured it out yet, I have really eclectic taste)
Fav Anime: Get Backers, Trigun, Monster Rancher, Project A-ko
Fav Games: Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy series (especially 4, 5, and 8), Suikoden series, ICO, Super Metroid, Soul Blazer, Star Ocean 2, *2D* Castlevania stuff
Fav Music: The Beatles, Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, They Might Be Giants, Sonic Youth, Starflyer 59, Pink Floyd, Suzanne Vega, Counting Crows, REM, Weezer, Guitar Vader, Ween
Fav Authors: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Terry Brooks, Douglas Adams, Robert Jordan, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Melanie Rawn
Other Likes: Trees, snow, tacky clothes, web design, Diet Coke, white grape/peach juice, video game midis, SCA/renaissance faires (guys with long hair and medieval weaponry - what could be better?), costumes, playing guitar
Dislikes: Intolerance, pretentiousness, stereotypes, people who attach an entire meg of files to their emails, most modern music, beef, eating, sleeping, and having to exist in the physical plane in general.
Other Stuff:
I used to be a postal worker, and typed zip codes for roughly 8 hours a day (or 12 in December)... it gave me severe tendonitis, which means it hurts to type. But since I'm a web design junkie, here's this page anyway. :P

I'm a Christian, and I wish I didn't have to justify that by adding "but a nonjudgemental and open-minded one". The way I see it, the only true Christians *are* nonjudgemental and open-minded. Jesus was a very tolerant person, and people who preach hate and violence in His name are awfully hypocritical.

I have a sort of weird inclination towards very strange or mentally unstable individuals... especially when it comes to romance. Such as it is - in my life, romance is dead and I don't mind at all. Except, of course, for my fictional harem, which also has a tendancy towards mental illness or complete weirdness.

I talk a whole lot more in a group than I do one on one. In person, it's pretty rare to hear me talk unless you're someone I know pretty well or there's a multi-person discussion going on. This is generally because I have nothing at all to add to a conversation unless my mind goes off on completely random tangents. So when someone says something to me, I may or may not have a reply that is even loosely related to the subject at hand. Except in my mind, in which I can usually backtrack to the original concept, given enough time.

Rabbits are the most perfect creatures ever created. If anyone speaks a word of violence against them in my presence, even as a joke, they will get one warning, and if they do it again they will immediately be moved to my "never talk to this person again" list, unless the person has a very valid excuse. This doesn't happen often.