Coffee is my addiction. Black, no sugar, please. This is what gets me through my day.

I adore cheesy/girly books, all things pop culture and pink, and I will not apologize for this. Nor will I expect you to enjoy the same things.

I enjoy reading. Give me good books, and I'll kiss you. Give me bad ones and I'll punch you in the face. (Really, there's no such thing as a bad book - just books that aren't right for ME. I feel this way about many things - for instance, contract law.)

If you can make me laugh, you're something special.

I am now proudly a confirmed Democrat, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, and completely and totally supportive of Barack Obama. In the words of Rivers Cuomo: if you don't like it, you can shove it.

I am decidedly boring, and have come to terms with that. I don't need to drink to have a good time, and I'd much rather be at home on my couch with a book or a TV show than out at a bar. That's just how I roll.

"And Ruth said, Do not entreat me to leave you, or to keep from following you; for wherever you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your G-d my G-d; Where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if even death parts me from you." - Ruth 1:16-17

"So you sent me your love / from all around the world / As if I could live on words and dreams and a million screams / Oh how I need a hand in mine to feel." - Weezer

"Sometimes when you lose, you win." - What Dreams May Come

"Colmes stumbles around as the lone Washington General until Ollie North hits him in the face with a bucket of confetti." - Al Franken

"One missing child is one too many." - John Walsh

"In the future, it is better to use the legal word 'judgment-proof' rather than homeless." - Stris, talking about defendants with no money

"Look at the facts. The FACTS are interesting! The LAW is a frightful bore!" - Webster

"You got your common law from us... along with a number of other things which you deny." - Webster, talking about English law

"You'll get some young lawyer who gives you a memo with a lawsuit for a thousand different things, and you say to them, 'You realize you're only getting paid $4, right? Can we please… focus on things that might actually win?' Believe me, I've been on the other side where I've done this, and the partners look at me and go, 'Go take a cold shower.'" - Stris, discussing how not to be a good lawyer

"The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say no - they may not be smart enough to say yes." - Keith Olbermann

"And it rains in your bedroom and everything's wrong / It rains when you're here and it rains when you're gone." - Taylor Swift