My name is Jessica, but a lot of my friends call me Belle so take your pick! I love to get outside and walk around on forest trails or explore more urban environments. I'm a very curious person and love to try new things.

I love to cook and bake, but I don't eat meat because of factory farming. (If I know for sure it was happily raise or caught in the wild then I might eat it.) I love animals and grew up with a lot of them in my life, from rats to cats and even a praying mantis once. I'm also inclined to hug trees.

I can get quite crafty and artistic too, I knit and make jewelry mostly but I sew, draw, and make terrariums too.

I'm a bit of a career student. I love school and I've studied a lot of subjects: computer science, linguistics, urban planning, Japanese, anthropology, and fine arts. So if you're looking for some useless information, I'm your gal for it. Currently, I'm finishing up my second bachelors in fine arts with a metalsmithing concentration but my first degree was in urban planning. After this though, I don't plan on going near a school for a long while. I'm very burned out!

Also, I'm easily amused and I love icanhascheezburger.com and I'm a bit of a nerd and probably will pick up on all sorts of obscure nerdy references.

While finishing up my second bachelors, I hope to start my own jewelry company and show work in galleries but I'm not too set in stone. I'm just floating down the river for now to see where it takes me and running around trying as many new things as humanly possible.

Recently I've been getting interested with working on cars and such. I suppose this is my latest "topic" to study and I got a new used car that has it's own set of issues ready to be my guinea pig.

Being hilarious when I least intend on it, cooking and baking, getting crafty, troubleshooting practically anything, being mechanically inclined, and navigating like a pro.

I tend to come off a little abrasive at first to some, but people quickly learn that I am actually compassionate and opinionated. I suppose that's not a very awesome thing to notice...

I love to read so it's a bit hard to narrow it down but these are a few that I read again and again: Deep Economy, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, American Gods, Kushiel's Dart, Archangel series, Lord Of The Flies, Blankets, Owly, The Maxx, Bone, anything by Banana Yoshimoto.

I'm not too big on movies but I love these: Blade Runner, Amadeus, Lost In Translation, Ironman, Serenity, Amelie, Persepolis, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless
Mind, and Donnie Darko. I tend to like indie films. I'm more into watching TV shows. I love The Office, House MD, The Daily Show, Firefly, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr., Fringe, Burn Notice, Arrested Development, Battlestar Galatica, and Sealab 2021 to name a few.

Video Games: I love Katamari Damacy, Patapon, Loco Roco, Silent Hill, Okami, King of Fighters, 2-D Sonic the Hedgehog, and Toe Jam & Earl.

Music: Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Kosheen, Tori Amos, Emiliana Torrini, Chris Cornell, Hooverphonic, Gorillaz, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Massive Attack, Portishead, NIN, Royksopp, The Postal Service, Lamb, (Older) Incubus, Electric Six, Adele.

Food: What's not to love?! I'm a big fan of Japanese, Indian, Thai, and Middle Eastern cuisine but my favorites among favorites are pizza and sushi. I also have a strange addiction to Nutella. I love whiskey, gin, and beer as well but I'm a little snobby about it.

(In no particular order) Delicious food, friends and family, my jewelry tools, long lazy mornings, animals and plants, and my sense of touch.

I think a lot about environmental issues, animal rights, human's relationship to other animals, culture, free trade agreements, the farm bill, and the psychology of urban planning. But, on the lighter side, I'm most often thinking about what I'm going to make for lunch or dinner and new artistic endeavors.

Relaxing at home reading a good book, knitting while watching something or I'm out with my friends at the bar or hanging at someone's house. Or, sometimes, out looking for trouble.

Well that's no fun, I've got to maintain some semblance of a mysterious persona.

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