I'm a recent transplant from Boston, MA, exploring Portland and looking to find my new home here. I'm smiley, friendly, and often vulgar. I make origami cranes for bored children out of old receipts while riding public transit, I think pirates are killer, and I love eating breakfast by myself in a park. I journal a lot, and stunning cloud formations take my breath away.
Perfunctory lists:
I'm interested in Anti-Racism, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Local Food, and Social Entrepreneurship.
I can never get enough of gardening, dancing (booty dancing, where possible), cooking, biking, hiking, swimming, drinking good beer, peeing my pants laughing, and planning the revolution.
I just finished grad school in nonprofit management and ended a 6 year stint working for the state in Massachusetts in the environmental field. I'm not sure what comes next for me, career-wise, but top priorities are finding work that's fun, challenging, somehow helps the world, and ignites my passion.
I recently ended a long, serious relationship, and I'm not quite sure why I'm on this site yet, but really? what the fuck. Why not.

Embracing transitions, leaping into the abyss, exploring myself and the world, having a blast, and looking to make a positive impact.

Finding common ground.

Sometimes my enthusiasm. Sometimes my ass. I've also been told recently that I have an unusually strong handshake. "Darth Vador-like" was the descriptor, I believe.

With limited space, I'll stick with a couple of non-representative favorites. Books by Howard Zinn and Tom Robbins, Movies with Hank Azaria in them, Music produced by Timbaland, and spicy/flavorful food with local ingredients.

Music, Berries, Touch, Humanity, the Earth, and Q-tips.

The process of becoming a more integrated, more authentic, more grounded, more free person.

I have no "typical" Friday night at the moment, but ideally? Cooking a good meal, with good friends, drinking good beer, laughing so hard my stomach hurts, and dancing to good music. A super-ideal Friday night would end with earth-shattering sex.

For whatever freakish reason, I love meetings and spreadsheets.

that's up to you, homie.
I should say that, so far, I have mostly been sitting by the sidelines on here - don't be offended if I don't write back right away. I'm still trying to figure out whether/how I want to get in the game.