CURRENT MISSION

To discover the secret of jitterbug perfume and otherwise enjoy life.

ABOUT ME

My hair has a mind of its own. Which usually means that it's out of control and curly. I don't even attempt to tame it most of the time. Post-european travel adventures, I'm (only slightly) burned out on travel and giving serious thought to settling down...for a few months anyways. I'm weird, wacky, a self-proclaimed dork, but not a complete social dunce. :) Some days I'm a chatterbox, other days, I'm more of a hermit. Generally, I'm the friendly, beaming smile sort. Except on mornings when I'm required to haul myself out of be earlier than I'd like.

PHILOSOPHY

Take each day as it comes and try not to taint it with the past. Live in the moment and learn to love the everyday things. Have the courage to make a fool of yourself and when in doubt, dance.

Interests

Zillions of things, but for starters...jazz music-both vocal and instrumental, photography, occasional kayaking, Calvin and Hobbs comic books, The Far Side comic books, natural history museums, dance-especially latin, but I want to learn Italian and belly dancing, cooking, laughing (a lot), wine, stargazing, denying my caffeine addiction. I'm also a diehard bibliophile and get weird thrills out of historical and sociollinguistics. Yep. Self-proclaimed nerd. :)

In a year I'll be attending Naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University in Seattle, WA. Until then I plan on WWOOFing and vagabonding my way around Europe.

• books
• performing arts
• photography
• perfumes
• dancing
• belly dancing
• cooking
• wine
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• opera
• kayaking
• history
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Juno, The Count of Monte Cristo, What the Bleep Do We Know, Braveheart, Robin Hood Men in Tights, The Life of Brian, After the Wedding, Little Miss Sunshine, Chocolat, Blazing Saddles

Books: Jitterbug Perfume, Shogun, The Alchemist, Vagabonding (by Rolf Potts), Travels with Charlie, Lolita, The Power of One, Gates of Fire, A Sense of the World, Water for Elephants, all of Robin Hobbs' triologies

Music: Pretty much any and all, but Dave Matthews, Jack Johnson, the RH Factor, Pavarotti, KT Tunstall, Imogen Heap, the Goo Goo Dolls, Ella Fitzgerald, and Death Cab for Cutie definitely rock my socks off.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw Aida at the Seattle opera house last Sunday and was almost moved to tears...as cliche as that sounds. No recorded music can compare to a live performance where the music truly fills your entire being.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Slovenia, Turkey, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States