I'm Dora, a twenty year-old junior at the UW who's majoring in Creative Writing, with minors in Japanese and Philosophy. I also work on campus, am the president of the campus writing club, and am the internet officer of the anime club, all of which makes me sound much more involved and ambitious than I really am. Mostly I just try to keep up.

I have a website, and can also be emailed at kotori [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu.

::Currently::

At the moment I'm watching School Rumble, Bleach, Genshiken/Kujibiki Unbalance, and Beck. Having been cut off from Orange Days due to a hiatus of the fansubs, I am seeking to find my j-drama fix elsewhere. I also finished Fullmetal Alchemist over the summer, and am taking my fangirling to the next level by working on a Lust cosplay, which will hopefully be complete in time for Sakura Con. As for manga, I'm following Watsuki Nobuhiro's newest series, Busou Renkin.

I've been exploring a lot of new poets lately, and am particularly enjoying Carl Dennis, Cecilia Woloch, and Louise Gluck -- all contemporary poets, which is new for me, and largely the fault of the verse writing course I just took. I'm also attempting to keep up with fun reading -- my current book is Bram Dijkstra's Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Culture -- but class reading is determined to thwart me.

Music-wise, I've fallen hard for the Wicked soundtrack. Much love.