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Focus On: Casey

Casey's job is to book guests on our show, which means she's always making new friends -- and she's always on the phone. Pretty cool, huh?

Name: Casey Fisher

Job Title: Booking Manager for the Help Zone, which includes The Screen Savers, Call for Help, GamespotTV, and Fresh Gear

Hometown: Santa Rosa, California

College/University: Holy Cross and Oxford University

Former Life: painting, photography, post-Modernism, waiting tables in Bethany Beach, Delaware, living in Florence, traveling. Secret: I used to have a severe aversion to technology, but I'm over that now :-)

Favorite website: Anything shopping related... Girlshop.com is probably the best

First computer: Macintosh 128K

Favorite piece of technology: My watch

Favorite author and book: Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths

Favorite movie or TV show: The English Patient (movie)

Favorite quote: "Don't pee on my leg and try to tell me it's raining" --My Dad

The Proust Questions

What is your most marked characteristic? My friends say my smile... it's big

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Making other people smile

When and where were you happiest? Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, Summer of 1998

What is your greatest regret? Being stubborn and confusing stubbornness with strength

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Having all of my geographically challenged friends in one place... preferably a beach house with a blender for mango margaritas

What is your most treasured possession? My family

Where would you like to live? Fiesole, Italy

What is your greatest fear? Not appreciating life and its potential until it's too late

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Taking myself too seriously

What is the trait you most deplore in others? Insensitivity

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Pride

What is your greatest extravagance? Haagen Daaz ice cream... everyday

What is your favorite journey? The boat-ride to L'Isola d'Elba

What is it that you most dislike? Conflict, close-mindedness, and unnecessary hurt feelings

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to be goofy

What is the quality you most like in a woman? Honesty (and the ability to be goofy)

What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty

If you were to come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? Person

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? I'd love to be me again...

How would you like to die? Happy (without morphine), when I'm 103

Got a question? Send it to thescreensavers@techtv.com.