Poetry (writing, reading,& critiquing) , scrapbooking, people-watching, fashion, learning new things, napping, reading, changing my hair (see photo gallery), being outside, tea & coffee, laughing until I can't breath, dancing till I can't breath, thinking, accomodating my porphyrophilic tendencies (ask...don't assume...get your mind out of the gutter!!!) indoor rock climbing, spending time with children ( gotta love the kids...) travelling, doing my part as a capitalist comsumer (yes, I mean shopping!!!), exercising, spending time with people, enjoying moments alone, and working on accomplishing my list of things to do. Currently on the list: 1) learn to kayak 2) learn to belly dance 3) become an all knowing wine diva 4) learn to sew 5) stop being such a scaredy cat and publish 6) be salaried w/ benefits by 26 7) increase the proficiency at the art of making desserts... and 8) I REALLY want a puppy, but a virtual hamster will have to do for now...
adopt your own virtual pet!
I'd like to meet:
not perfect people... but those who are perfectly human. I'd love to meet a man who likes to diagram compound complex sentences with frequent subordinant interpellations. That being said, someone with a good sense of humor will do just fine!! *smile* and anyone who thinks that they are up for the challenge of a mocha latte, high-cheekboned, pretty-eyed, quick-witted diva with a deep love of iambic pentameter and the heroic couplet........punk bustas need not apply.... lol
Music:
pretty eclectic... personal various genre favorites: Damien Rice, Regina Spektor, Ludacris, Norah Jones, Etta James, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Mariah Carey, Mos Def,ani Difranco, Common, Tool, Eels, Ben Folds, Proyecto Uno, Tweet, Joss Stone... there are more, so many more... but you get the idea. If I don't like it, it probably means I haven't heard it, though i will admit I am very picky with my rock and even more selective when it comes to country... but there is just somethin' about Sean Paul....
Movies:
Dancer in the Dark, Love Actually, Howls Moving Castle, Pride & Prejudice (BBC), March of the Penguins, Beautiful Mind, Closer, Anchorman, The Notebook,Napolean Dynamite, Hamlet, Momento, Amelie, La Mala Education, He Loves me-He Loves Me not, Kinsey, Team America, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Fight Club, Monster's Ball, 25th Hour, Hitch, Being Julia, 40 year old virgin
Television:
Sex in the City, CSI (all three of them... I'm a junky for science), Chapelle Show, Trigger Happy, Law and Order: SVU, Girls Behaving Badly, 24, E! true hollywood story, What NOT to Wear, Starting Over (it a guilty pleasure), VHI, Food Network, HGTV
Books:
Pride and Prejudice-- Jane Austen, Sula--Toni Morrison, Birds of America--Lorrie Moore, Triggering Town--Richard Hugo, Coin of the Realm--Carl Phillips, Pastoral--Carl Phillips, William Carlos Williams--edited by Robert Pinsky, You Shall Know Our Velocity--Dave Eggers, The Poems Heartbeat--Alfred Corn, Norton Anthology of Contemporary and Modern Poetry, collected works of Pablo Neruda, Granted--Mary Szybist, anything James Patterson writes, anything I can get my hands on...
Heroes:
My parent & grandparents (sounds cliche' but they are AMAZING), Carl Phillips, Anne Sanow, Margaret Funkhouser, Jami Ake, Faith Hammond, Baudellaire, Robert Hass, Debbye Turner, Kaye Lani Rae Wilson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni
