Know Your Neighbors: Taylor Novak
, Student

Taylor Novak, 18, is a student at Sauk Valley Community College taking courses toward transferring to Northern Illinois University.

She plans to pursue a psychology career while teaching dance. Her parents are Tracy Novak and Alan Arians of Sterling. She has two brothers, Luke Ademoski, 12, and Jesse Arians, 6.

Alma mater: I graduated in 2009 from Sterling High School.

Oughta be a law: I'd make animal cruelty laws harsher.

Hearts: Watching movies at home, watching "Wife Swap" and "Trading Spouses."

Darts: Doing dishes.

Haunts: The mall or the park.

Read this: "Go Ask Alice." It's about a girl with a lot of inner problems, and she ends up pulling herself out of it.

People say I look like: My grandmother, Sandy Foster, always calls me Barbie.

Phobias: Spiders and cockroaches.

Guilty pleasure: Honey buns.

I'd like to meet: Johnny Cash.

In the dictionary next to: Impatient.

Trading places: I'd like to be Paris Hilton. There's so much talk about her, and it'd be interesting to see what she actually does do in a day.

Trading spaces: I'd like to visit Las Vegas again. I've been there before and it was just amazing.

Best thing about Sterling: The schools.

Shout out to: Kathy Thome, who was my counselor at Sterling High School.

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