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I wear my snark on my sleeve.

About Me

The past month has been incredible. This is truly my summer of champagne and my face hurts from smiling so much.

These days I dream of alligators and crocodiles, hillside cottages, and of swimming in beautiful black lakes. I wake up thinking about the chocolate covered cherries from Sahadi's .

I find Taxidermy to be utterly fascinating. Scoff all you want, I spent my formative years wandering around the Museum of Natural History .

I never tire of listening to people laugh.

I'm searching for the perfect button eyes to sew onto my first knit bunny, which I made for my sister.

I'll stay in Brooklyn as long as she will have me, though I was raised a Manhattan snob. I'm learning to drive, so watch out! For now though, my wheels demand a bit more leg work.

My Interests

I am unable to control my excitement about:

Matriculating at The School of General Studies at Columbia University and studying sustainability, conservation, and structures of community in the E3B program .

This is site is going to be amazing!:
http://www.eol.org

media, night swimming, milk chocolate, dogs, garden gnomes, deep sea fish and platypus , helping things grow, Good Magazine , Craft Magazine , knitting, making my house look like Darwin's den/study

Music:

great lake swimmers, sufjan stevens, architecture in helsinki, m. ward, joshua redman, azure ray, eastmountain south, camera obscura, iron and wine, sugar roos, prince, damien rice, pat benetar, al green, ray charles, belle&sebastian, englebert humperdinck, michael jackson, izabel's yawns and shmee's attempts to imitate them

Movies:

sleeper, godfather I & II, jules et jim, tony takitani, amelie, howl's moving castle, house of yes, cinema paradiso, modern times, the YES men, star wars, city of lost children, orlando, princess bride, pan's labyrinth, the birds, some like it hot, the world according to garp, the warriors, adaptation, weird science, grifters, 3rd Man, lost in translation, spotless mind, chinatown, mrs. parker, melvin goes to dinner, grey gardens, brother from another planet, harolde and maude, life aquatic, waiting for guffman, stanger than fiction

Television:

the muppet show, mr. bill show, mean doctor (house), saturday morning infomercials, jem, heroes, home movies, rome, 6 feet under, and when izy isn't looking - nature shows

Books:

I am currently reading:
Gnomes by Rien Poortuliet and Wil Huygen. According to my sister, this book was wildly popular when she was in the 5th grade. This would have been 1981. I am, as usual, far behind the times.
I enjoyed:
worldchanging, kafka on the shore, il pentamerone, the heart is a lonely hunter, magical thinking, vanity fair, you can't win, hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse, book of laughter and forgetting, barrel fever, mezzanine, orlando, alchemist, white noise, fast food nation, a tear and a smile, goodbye w/o leaving, uncle john's brm reader, the nose, atlas shrugged, pat the bunny

Heroes:

my mother, people with housebroken dogs, Laurie Colwin, Malcolm Thompson, Frank Moretti, Andrea.