Name: Anna Fricke

Job on the Creek: staff writer

Birthplace: Bowling Green, Ohio

Education: B.A. in English and Theatre, Swarthmore College

Hobbies: obsessing

Career Goal: to work through all my personal grievances with friends and family in a cathartic and public manner

Favorite Movie: This is tough to say. I will skirt the issue and claim only to battle Gina Fattore on "High Society" being just as entertaining as "The Philadelphia Story."

Favorite TV show: "Friends" "Six Feet Under" "The Sopranos"

Favorite Saying: most recently, from "Igby Goes Down," : "I'm drowning in ---holes."

Favorite DC episode or moment: Thus far from this season, Eddie Doling declaring he's "got no beef!"