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Carrie

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

About Me

Growing up, I felt restless in our small town in central New York State. Then my family moved to a farm in an even smaller town. I immediately began looking into foreign travel. I did my undergrad in Worcester, MA, then moved out to LA shortly after because of a wedding and no prospects to keep me in the East. I still travel, and even go back home to visit my favorite relatives and the Adirondacks that I love. I appreciate an excuse to laugh at anything that is sarcastic, dry, and witty, but I'll easily settle for a bad pun if that's all you have. I am honest and responsible to a fault. I appreciate people who are down to earth but motivated for improvement. I believe that the world, from our county to our planet, is a big place full of diverse expressions of how alike we are, and I love exploring that.

My Interests

traveling, reading, writing, visiting friends, going to the beach, rollerblading, biking, hiking, camping, yoga, the environment, Earthwatch, politics, Amnesty International, eating good food, science, human behavior, independent films, exploring,

I'd like to meet:

Honest, sincere, local people with common interests.

Music:

U2, Ani DiFranco, Willie Nelson, The Beatles, Calexico, Tom Waits, Sex Pistols, Kings of Leon, Miles Davis, Counting Crows, Nina Simone, The Pixies, Coldplay, Ben Harper, Gorillaz, Tito Puente, The Clash, Ride, The Police, Duran Duran, Sufjan Stevens, William Orbit, Beck, Boards of Canada, My Morning Jacket, Van Morrison, The New Pornographers, Johnny Cash

Movies:

Brick, Primer, American Beauty, An American Werewolf in London, Badlands, Garden State, independent films, Donny Darko, Rushmore, Lost in Translation, Brokeback Mountain, Hi Fidelity, The Princess Bride, Office Space, Motorcycle Diaries, The Mosquito Coast, The Constant Gardner, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Thin Red Line, The Year of Living Dangerously, Gallipoli, Say Anything, Carrie, I (heart) Hukabee's, Flirting with Disaster, Love the Hard Way

Television:

I don't watch a lot of it, but I have weakness for HBO programming and The Office

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, Dostoyevsky, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Road Less Traveled, 100 Years of Solitude, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Golden Ass, Gilgamesh, Bukowski, The Fountainhead, Catch 22, Willie (as in Willie Nelson), The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Bridge to Tarabithia, travel guides, maps, travel fiction, The New Yorker (so long, it reads like a book), short stories by J.D. Salinger, Katherine Porter, D.H. Lawrence.

Heroes:

Bono, Frida Kahlo, my grandmother, normal people who face extraordinary circumstances with intelligence and bravery.