Rachel

accents, acting, adbusters, all things guava, alpine areas, alpine butterflies, altruism, amnesty international, amsterdam, anagama kilns, ancient shortwave radios, appalachian wildflowers, archeology, architecture, art galleries, astrophotography, astrophysics, atheism, atman, aurora borealis, autumn, bad mimes, beekeeping, bicycles, biking, biochemistry, birdwatching, black & white photography, botany, bouldering, british comedy, buddhism, buzzlife, canyoneering, caravaggio, cats, celadon, cello, chickens as friends not food, china, cliffs, climbing, cloudy days, clubbing, colloquialisms, color, compassion, crayola crayons, crusty bread, cuddling, collecting old vinyl records, comets, computer animation, cooking breakfast for people, cooking dinner for people, cooking for people in general, croatia, dali, dancing, dark comedy, dark shadows, dc, dead languages, debates, depression, dismantling heteronormativity, dnb, documentary filmmaking, dostoyevsky, dreams, dressage, dry humor, earl grey as is, east london, edm, egyptian arabian horses, electronica, empathy, endurance trekking, entomology, epiphytes, equestrians, espresso, ethnobotany, europop circa the 60s, existentialism, fair trade, falconry, fallen civilizations, fallen leaves, fashion design, feeding ducks, femme fatales, film, film archiving, film criticism, film history, first amendment rights and knowing how to use them, flash gordon, foreign cultures, foreign foods, foreign languages, forgiveness, found magazine, free food, free-verse, free speech, geeks, gender?, geometry in art, ghost towns, go (the game), golden ratio, good coffee, good friends, good gas mileage, good wine, graffiti, graffiti on trains, graffiti in west virginia, graphic design, green, gregorian chant, growing tomatoes, guitar, gypsy punk, hands, hawaii, hedgehogs, herb gardens, high altitudes, hiking, history, hole-in-the-wall coffeeshops, homemade pie, honesty without hesitance, houndstooth, house rabbits, hugging, iceland, impermanence of existence, independent film, indra's net, intellectual conversations, interesting looking pigeons, international travel, improvisation, italian pinot grigio, jazz, kelp forests, knowledgeable orinthologists, korean inlay pottery, kozyndan, learning everything, leonardo da vinci, linguistics, llamas, lobsters as pets, london, mandolin, medieval music, meteorites, meteor showers, microbiology, minimalism, mongolia, the morin khuur, mountains, mosaics, murals, museums, music, my wok, nanawale forest preserve, narrating campy muted 50s sci-fi, neo-noir, new river gorge, new york film academy, night, NPR, nomads, northern italy, old books, old instruments, old pulp novellas, open-source software, orchids, ostia, oxfam, pacific northwest rainforests, pacifism, pahoa, painting, palau, paleontology, paleobotany, paris, patagonia, patterns, people-watching, pepys, petroglyphs, phi, philosophical discussion, pi, piano, pine trees, pine cones, pine sap stuck to my fingers, poetry, poetry on napkins, pompeii, portland, portuguese, post-apocalyptic themes, pottery, primitive ceramics, purist oldskool painting techniques, queer theory/studies, rain, raku, raptor/bird of prey rehabilitation, red bananas, robotics, rome, sagan (carl), sailing, salty sea breezes, screenwriting, sculpture (ceramic, metal, and stone), seedy pubs, selle francais, semiotics, shakespeare, silent films, sinful cheesecake, skateboarding, skiing, slamdance film festival, small cars, snow, snowboarding, socialism, socialized medicine, somafm, spanish riding school, spelunking, spur-of-the-moment roadtrips, stargazing, star parties, state parks that few people know about, string theory, studio engineering, subway musicians, sumatran rhinos, sundance film festival, surfing, surrealist art and poetry, taking action, tea of all kinds, technology, theatre, theoretical mathematics, this american life, thrift stores in socal, trail running, turntables, ulaanbaatar, unique tattoos, urban gardens, urban photography, vegetarianism, vermeer, vespa-riding, vineyards, vintage clothing, vinyl, war photography, water snakes, web design, weird fashion, white sided dolphins, whitewater kayaking, whitewater rafting, winter, writing songs, xi'an, zines, zeitgeist