CURRENT MISSION

Kill 'em with kindness!

ABOUT ME

"People should not be put behind bars for smoking pot, I mean pot smokers cannot commit crime. They can barely get it together to order a pizza. They are no menace to society. I'm not afraid of a gang of red-eyed, cotton-mouthed, paranoid stoners coming to jack me for my Visine and cookie dough."
-- Margaret Cho

[reading napkin] "Bears are large and brown. Alright, come on. Not all bears are large. How about baby bears, huh? Bears derive their name from a football team in Chicago. No. It's the other way around. Jesus Christ Fred, come on. It is estimated that bears kill over two million salmon a year. Attacks by salmon on bears are much more rare. Right, that's got to be true, right? Alright, let's go with that one."
-Peter Gaulke played by: Steve Zahn (Strange Wilderness)

PHILOSOPHY

My personal philosophy revolves around being me - the only person I can ever be. I express myself clearly and fully. I love myself and others. I hope that one day I can live selflessly and at one with the natural world.

Compassion. Love. Forgiveness. Integrity. Honesty.

Interests

Patios, tennis, food, kyudo, yoga, india, Political Ecology, walking, laughing, stories, napping, Popeyes, KFC, singing, sushi, Botany, Spain, puentes, Alice Walker, going to teachers college.

• animals
• culture
• literature
• singing
• concerts
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• walking
• reading
• soccer
• tennis
• rugby
• world cup
• biology
• ecology

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Music:
The Flaming Lips, Silvio Rodriguez, Alejandro Filio, Rufus Wainwright, Justice, Daft Punk, Mark Ronson, Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Stevie Wonder, LUTHER VANDROSS, Mary J Blige, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Chamillionaire, Rick Ross, Queen Ifrica, City and Colour, Grizzly Bear, ABBA, Facto Delafe, NINA SIMONE (my all-time fav).

Favorite TV Shows:
Arrested Development, Drawn Together, Sponge Bob Square Pants, UGLY BETTY, Dead Like Me, Weeds, Battlestar Galactica, True Blood, Desperate Housewives.

Favorite Movies:
Stranger than Fiction, Go, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hotel Rwanda, Lady in the Water, Legally Blonde, Fire, Earth, Water, Bride & Prejudice, Crash, Maria Llena de Gracia, Como Agua Para Chocolate, SHORTBUS, VOLVER, Gorillas in the Mist, Ghandi (is my all time fav).

Favorite Books:
The Poisonwood Bible, Memoirs of a Geisha, A Complicated Kindness, Oscar Wilde's Complete Shorter Fiction, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, The In Between World of Vikram Lall, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Strange Pilgrims, LAMB, Meridian, Waiting for Godot, Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Guide to Zen.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the most amazing things I've ever seen was the Arenal and Poas Volcanoes in Costa Rica when I was 16.

Semana Santa in Spain.

Rugby World Cup in France (I was in Paris).

Rufus Wainwright and Ben Folds in Concert.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach lots of things.
- Cooking (making sushi, confidence in the kitchen, etc.)
- Biology (specifically Political Ecology, Economic Botany, Animal/Plant Development)
- Spanish (grammar, culture, literature)
- Yoga (beginner to intermediate)

I would love to learn about ANYTHING. I am like a sponge - still!

Sharing is caring.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Costa Rica, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Spain

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