My name is Ardith and I live in LA. I'm an employee of Sony Imageworks Interactive.

Thank you for visiting my page. Hanabatake.com has been around in one form or another since 1995.  since the dark ages of the internet. My friend (Let's call him Wuken) taught me how to use GEOCITES (um, the page is was up until geocities was taken down...) and the power of hotlinking. Of course, now I frown upon the practice and shake my fist at those damn MYSPACE kids. So here is to a decade of webbiness.

Sorry if some of my pages read like a 18-year-old wrote it. I betcha some of them ARE from that time period.

I grew up in San Diego and still have tons of family there. It was lovely as I grew up with close cousins and molded by the crucible of grandparents and lack of funds. That just meant more imagination time! One of my favorite games was pretending the closet was a rocket ship or hanging upside-down on the staircase. Not to mention the amazing fun I had climbing a great big plum tree in the backyard with my cousins.

Favorites

• Movies
  The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended Ed!), The Goonies, Star Wars (Esp. The Empire Strikes Back), Dark City, Indian Jones, The Mummy, The Incredibles, The Fifth Element, and Finding Nemo
• Books
  The Darkangel Trilogy, Harry Potter series, The Changeover by Margaret Mahy,
• Authors
  Patricia Briggs, Patricia C. Wrede, Linda Howard, Lisa Kleypas, Nora Roberts, Marjorie M. Lui, Angela Knight, and Emma Holly.
• Anime
  Rurouni Kenshin, Kodomo no Omocha, Fruits Basket
• Manga
  Rurouni Kenshin, Kodomo no Omocha, Baby & Me (Akachan to Boku)
• TV Series
  Doctor Who, Firefly, Buffy, Pushing Daisies, The Mythbusters, BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice with Colin Firth
• Comic Book
  Fables. ANY covers by James Jean
• Color
  Blue. Pink. Purple.
• Web Browser
  Chorme & Firefox
• Computer
  my mac mini & my laptop
• Hobbies
  Reading. Writing. Eating/making Desserts, Cooking, Playing Video Games. (No particular Order)