Aikido, cycling, travel, music (especially of the nerd rock, quirky, indie, self-deprecating variety), dogs and dog parks, feline friends, hot boys, honu, secret space stations.
Always up for meeting anyone who secretly crushes on Rivers Cuomo partially because he is so f--ked up in his orientalism, overweight dogs who don't let their excess weight hold them back, precocious kids with overactive imaginations who don't judge my broken Mandarin.
Weezer, Jack Johnson, The Strokes, Massive Attack, Elefant, Nada Surf, Lizzie West, The Shins, Cat Power, Tegan and Sara, Calexico, Felix da Housecat, Spankrock, Portishead, Alvaro Zelaya, Oxford American, Radiohead, Plot Against Rachel, Louis Armstrong, The Kooks, Calexico, Peter, Bjorn and John
Saving Face, Cars, Lie With Me, The Royal Tenanbaums, High Fidelity, Amelie, Lilo and Stitch
A Feather on the Breath of GOd, The Great Gatsby, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative, Native Speaker, Yellow, The Namesake, The Last of Her Kind, For Rouenna, Paper Bullets,Norwegian Wood, Spudnik Sweetheart, Where the Body Meets Memory: an Odyssey of Race, Sexuality & Identity, and yes, can you believe it, Harry Potter books 1&2
inventors of secret space stations, care-takers of bears and little animals, anyone who has his or her own reading room, my coast to coast roommate and playmate