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Zach

Geekity geekity geek geek, geekadiddly geekageek dorkadoodle.

About Me

I: don't own a car, but enjoy roadtrips;
get the heebie-jeebies at the mere thought of shopping;
have an apartment full of distressed houseplants;
am accident prone;
may just call in sick one day from the Grand Canyon;
very nearly met my end rafting down the North Platte;
am in desperate need of new trousers;
find it difficult to throw things away despite knowing full well I'll never have occasion to use them again;
have an irrational fear of spiders;
am a dog person; am a cat person;
know how to hypnotize a chicken;
would rather be climbing at Vedauwoo;
have no qualms being omnivorous;
love thunderstorms despite the lightning incident;
am liable to be shy and socially stupid till I get to know you;
wish I could play the piano;
can probably still play the French horn;
miss New England autumns;
tend to do the opposite of what I'm told;
made a really good cheesecake...once;
can explain why the sky is blue;
indulge in occasional bouts of constructive melancholy;
suspect I'm suffering from early-onset adulthood;
have no concept of brevity.

My Interests

Nature, camping, hiking, biking, exploring, reading, geology, making pottery, travel, vague and frustrating attempts at creativity, actively ignoring the inevitable

Music:

So hard to pick favorites ... I'll listen to just about anything.

Movies:

Harold and Maude, Thelma and Louise, Brokeback Mountain, Babe, The Graduate, Glory, Fargo, A River Runs Through It, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, South Park, Clueless, Shakespeare in Love, The Sweet Hereafter

Television:

Buffy (oh how we miss thee), Survivor, Lost, and Project Runway. Also, Gilmore Girls. I can't help it. It's a sickness.

Books:

To Kill a Mockingbird, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Annals of the Former World (John McPhee), The Chronicles of Narnia, To the Lighthouse, The Forge of God, My Antonia