Favorite website(s):
http://www.4chan.org, Something Awful

Favorite book, movie, or TV show:
Wasted, the 2001 series, Fast Food Nation, The Zombie Survival Guide, Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, Serenity, The Fellowship of the Ring trilogy, lots of horror films, Twin Peaks, Gargoyles, The Slayers, The Adventures of Pete and Pete - and still adding!

Favorite game, application, or program of all time:
The Resident Evil series (various consoles)

What are you playing and/or working on right now:
I'm in the middle of a lot of games right now - don'cha LOVE school? Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 0 (second time around), Eternal Darkness, Chrono Cross

What is your current screensaver, background, or wallpaper:
My Halloween - me as Jill Valentine, my boyfriend as a Zombie, and my friend Fran as "Operation" the board game.

What's so special about your computer (room):
So_Many_Action_Figures_Surround_Them_Both...

How many computers do you have:
2 - Dell desktop, HP laptop.

What was your first computer:
And ol' Compaq Presario circa 1998.

Do you remember the first program you ran on it (or the first game you played):
Microsoft Word, being a writer

Geekiest moment of your life:
Every time I tell someone I'm a huge geek, they don't believe me, and three to five minutes later, they nervously walk away from the conversation (if they'd only believed me in the first place!)

When did you first realize you were a geek:
I\'ve always kind of known - but quite possibly in the 80s when I (a girl, and not a tomboy) played with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Action Figures.

Have you ever said anything geeky that someone else did not understand:
At a classmate's "Victorian Tea Time" birthday party, I tried to start a conversation on the subject of earthworms and why I found them the neatest things in nature, followed by talk of TMNT. It didn't blow over very well...

What is the funniest/most bizarre computer/Internet/geeky experience you have ever had:
That'd probably be discovering 4chan... .

What is your favourite quote:
"I love deadlines - I particularly like the wooshing sound they make as they go flying by."

If you were a computer program, you would be: why:
Mozilla Firefox - Inventive and different without being scary or foreign, user friendly, having undergone several makeovers. :)

What are you doing when you're not at your computer(s):
Write, hang out with good friends, suffer through school.

You have a time machine that can only be used once. If you use it you will not come back. What date would you set it to, and what ONE thing would you take with you (not a computer):
I pretty much want to stay in the here and now -- it stinks, but then again, time changes, but there will always be strife, always be suffering - I just learn to take what I have.

(*creative liberties may have been taken for the benefit of the reading audience)

Natalie, who plays video games--lots and Lots of video games, is a voracious reader (when she's not in school). Natalies reads all different things - fiction, textbooks, nonfiction, comic books.  She like comic books and has a great appreciation for sexy scantilly clad females, and she likes anime, though she's HIGHLY selective.  Natalie is also into LOTS of old cartoons, and above all else, Nerdly/Geeky intellectual conversation is a HUGE turn on for her!