When I was little, I wanted to be on Broadway when I grew up. Now, I just want to be an old woman. My best quality is my friendly and outgoing nature which shines through most of the time, except when I am feeling shy (which is hardly ever). I'm happiest when exploring, making stuff, sharing a drink with a good friend, or rummaging through an antique store. I would love to spend the rest of my life sending postcards from faraway lands... or maybe just San Francisco.

Working with a group of creatives at a letterpress studio, curating at a little gallery in my "free" time, freelancing my graphic design "skills" selectively, and trying to make art of my own every once in awhile. (and apparently using quotation marks liberally). Escape from SF and the country is necessary, but exploring the city is still a favorite pastime after almost 5 years.

I am marginally good at many things... Karaoke, deep sea fishing, rolling my "r"s, going on safari, stitching, keeping plants alive, drawing, playing the piano, returning movies, running down the street in 3 inch heels, geometry, punch line delivery...

How my perfectly straight hair is... every indication of my sexual preferences.

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• i_am_potato

I make a mean cocktail. I also make amazing appetizers, other than that, you have to fend for yourself - or cook for me.

Among others, I enjoy listening to: Neil Young, Blonde Redhead, Tom Petty, Portishead, My Morning Jacket, The Shins, Elliot Smith, REM, Pixies, Mum, Pinback, Miles Davis, Chopin, and Abba.

I prefer to call them films. I abhor watching most movies more than once. If I really love a movie I may have seen it three times, tops. A few of these are "Bringing Up Baby", "Vertigo", "Delicatessen", "Royal Tenenbaums", "Being John Malkovich", "Time Bandits", etc...

I have a handful of books in my tiny apartment - mostly about art and whatever I have managed to read in the past few years. The majority remain stowed away in a garage in Paradise. Many others have been lent or otherwise managed to escape. Hopefully someday they (and many others) will all reside in one room with a fireplace and a comfy chair… Suffice it to say that I really enjoy reading, but not out loud. Some of my favorites are: A.S. Byatt, Murakami, Bulgakov, Borges, Dickens, Gregory Maguire, Kate Atkinson, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Osker Wilde, Nick Hornby, Mark Twain, Edward Gorey, Dostoevsky, Umberto Eco, and Leonard Shlain.

Cheese...

obnoxiously long showers...

Pomegranates...

Spell Check...

ellipses

Benadryl... really I'd be dead (food allergies)

Seahorses, Sweden, painting an octopus, sailing away in a boat, what color I want to paint my white walls, if I should go back to school, if it is remotely feasible to own a dog, analyzing my dreams from the night before...

On my way somewhere... to drink Manhattans/dinner with friends/an art show/the theater/leaving the city, the country or work...

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