Full Name: Naomi Michele Mitchell 

Nicknames: Gnomie, Gnomes, Gnaw, Na, Nomi, Girl, Mouse (the list goes on and on)

Date of Birth: 3-18-81 

Siblings and ages: Ruthie (24), Caleb (22) 

School: Well, lets go ALL the way back, Turtle Rock Elementry, Los Osos Middle School, Morro Bay High School, Fairfield High School, and now college ............

Best Friends: Adam Curtis Harvey(husband), and my mommy (Michele)

Pets and Names: Katze and Madchen

Jobs:  Benefit Advocates, waitress, Peterson-Milaney (insurance...HORRIBLE), and In-N-Out (current job). 

Hobbies: Music, seeing movies, poetry, reading, seeing new places, and I love to listen to people ... I find it extremely interesting and reassuring to hear other people are as fucked up (if not more) as I am!

Collect: Pictures, I take pictures of EVREYTHING! 

Words or Phrases you use too much: "Let's get the hell out of here" and "DOPE!"

Word or phrase most likely to be heard in your presence: "You have really big boobs" 

A non-sport game in which you excel: Mancala

A non-sport game which you enjoy: Monopoly

Dream Car: Audi TT Roadster

Coolest Experience: That would have to be playing at the Music Confrence in Cincinnati, Ohio; that was an incredible experience, I was so 'moved' that I was shaking after it was all over .... it was way intense.

Scariest thing you've ever done: Broke my neck in a car accident on January 14th, 1997. 

Little-Known Talent You Possess: Line Dancing ... I'm good at that from back in the day of horse back riding and country music....

Special Skills Or Talent:I love to make music on my french horn. 

Song That Couldn't Be Improved Upon: My ALL TIME fav is "With or Without You" BY (of course) U2 .... and Subdivision, Your Next Bold Move, and most of Ani Difranco's other songs.

Special Awards You Have Won: Lets see, I am kind of a geek-ish type, so mostly academic awards.  Honor Roll throughout majority of academic career, distinguished honor roll in high school, academic decathalon awards, music awards, a few computer award things.  Other than that, not much. 

Character traits that I look for in a person:  Sweet, caring, loving, accepting, funny, witty, smart, honest. 

What I want to do/be: A Teacher, but also I love to write, so something with that ... either way I wanna give something to people.

Church: Debatable

Favorite music: Alternative, folk-ish (Ani Difranco), classical, pretty much everything.

Favorite verse(s):   This is my letter to the World 
                                That never wrote to Me - 
                                The simple News that Nature told - 
                                With tender Majesty 

                                Her Message is committed 
                                To Hands I cannot see - 
                                For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen - 
                                Judge tenderly - of Me 
                                        (Emily Dickinson) 

ALSO:
"Great Spirits have always encountered violent oposition from mediocre minds"
~Albert Einstein~

Favorite Color: Black

Favorite Food: Mashed potatoes and gravy, strawberries, green beans! 

Least favorite food: I hate olives, and mushrooms. 

Funniest People You Know: Adam, Jenny, Ruth, and Anthony. 

Dream Vacation: Going to Ireland, and all over Europe. 

Favorite Subject: English, Literature, Social Science. 

Favorite Sport:  Horse back riding.

Other Sports: I love to water ski (although I totally SUCK at it!) 

In And Around The CD Player: Tori Amos, Nirvana, Poe, Enya, Jewel, The Crow Soundtrack,  Ani Difranco, The Offspring, Alanis Morissette, Janes Addiction, Tool, APC, DMB, Linkin Park...

Fave Book: The Giver, Amy and Elizabeth, The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson ....

Book You Would Like To Read:"The Satanic Verses"

Have You Ever Thought You Were Going To Die: Uhh ... haven't we all?  Whether it be from physical pain, embarassment or laughter.  Usually the latter two for me. 

Fave Cartoon Characters: Ummmmmmmmmmm ..... not a cartoon person.

Favorite Actor: Brandon Lee.

Favorite Actress: Shanon Connely

Favorite Movies: Dead Again, The Cure, The Crow, and A Chorus Line, the Jersey Trilogy is awesome too! (have it all memorized!) Dogma, Clueless, Hillary and Jackie, Elizabeth, Rainman, The Red Violin, Dead Poets Society, Waking The Dead ...

Favorite Line is a Movie: VICTIMS.... AREN'T WE ALL? and MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD ON THE LIPS AND HEARTS OF ALL CHILDREN (both from The Crow)

Favorite Music Video: Spark, by Tori Amos. 

Favorite Animal: That would be Katze.

Favorite T.V. Show: Gilmore Girls

Favorite Day: March 18th, I think it should be a national holiday. 

Favorite Month: March

Favorite Holiday: Samhain

Favorite part of the news paper: Obituaries are fun. 

Favorite things to wear: These awesome satin underwear ... they don't even give me a wedgie!!!

Other: One of the most teaching experiences: Going to a friends funeral, taught me a lot, along with being in a  car accident. Both experiences threw my own 'mortality' in my face.