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Harriet
Harriet Schroeder is a twenty-seven-year-old computer programmer living in Albuquerque.
She escaped her hometown at seventeen to attend the University of New Mexico, which is where
she met her best friend, Paul. After surviving the Great Seattle Tech Bust of 2000, she moved
back to her home state and found work as a third shift IT guru/e-mail screener for an anonymous
corporation. She hates living in New Mexico with the passion of a thousand fiery suns, but won't
move. Like ever. Moving would mean giving up green chile, the high desert, Paul, and her cushy
living situation. She currently resides in Albuquerque's North Valley, in the guest house of Paul's
grandmother, Daisy. When she's not at work, Harriet enjoys drinking coffee, reading, playing video
games and lording her knowledge of wine, French and women over Paul's head. She's perpetually single and okay with that.
Paul
Paul Matchett is twenty-eight and Harriet Schroeder's best friend. Really, that's how he introduces himself.
"Hi, I'm Paul Matchett. I'm Harriet Schroeder's best friend." He still hasn't figured out he's her Kato, and would
probably resent it if he did. Paul is Albuquerque's equivalent of a man-about-town: he knows everyone, and has
dated all of your friends. He throws legendary parties, lives in a loft downtown and spends all of his free time
frittering away his trust fund and trying to avoid working for the family business. He's perpetually single and
okay with that. He's not okay with Harriet being single, and has made it his life goal to marry her off, or at
least see her getting a little action before her 30th birthday.
Daisy
Daisy Matchett is Paul's grandmother. She's the richest woman in Albuquerque, but won't mention it to you.
She's spent the last thirty years cultivating her reputation as a mostly harmless eccentric, though she resents
the "harmless" bit. She loves having Harriet as a boarder, but hates seeing her single. Daisy spends most of
her time out of Albuquerque, returning only when another great-grandchild is born or her accountants summon
her home. Since her husband, Herb, died in 1981, she's been in several long-term relationships. She enjoys
torturing her daughter-in-laws and spoiling her sons.
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