Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Going back to grad school to get my degree in School Psychology this summer. Before that I taught Special Ed for 5 years. It turns out I enjoy figuring out how kids tick more than actually teaching them.

I used to live in the city but due to circumstances beyond my control I am back in the burbs for a few months. At least I'm saving money. First goal on returning is to get an apartment with a balcony and a dishwasher. I DO own a car so driving into the city is not a problem. I'm already there most nights anyways.

watching DVD marathons, telling you who starred in what movie, other random pop culture trivia, baking, eating the goods I just baked, procrastinating...

My face.

Books: Anything by Vonnegut and Sagan, Catch-22, A Song of Ice and Fire (c'mon George, finish it up...), To Kill a Mockingbird, Black Boy, Guns, Germs and Steel

Movies: Taxi Driver, The Empire Strikes Back, Blazing Saddles, Pulp Fiction, Singing in the Rain, Ratatouille, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, Seven Samurai, Wayne's World, etc. etc...

TV: Lost, Firefly, Buffy, Veronica Mars, Seinfeld, Arrested Development, Fringe, The Wire and the best show on television at the moment: Community

Music: Aretha Franklin, Johnny Cash, The Black Keys, Queen, Daft Punk, Dead Kennedys, Days of the New, Joe Pug, Sleepy Sun

Food: I love pad thai, pizza, sushi and pasta. I'll eat pretty much anything except beets and cauliflower. I also have a huge sweet tooth. The way to my heart is definitely my stomach.

Netflix
electricity
tastebuds
maps - not because I get lost, but because I like to plan
ears- I don't know what I would do without music...
Fresh Air on NPR

why people are the way they are, how to get myself back to France, vacations in general, why there are too many damn bands in Chicago, why strawberries are so delicious, why I haven't destroyed my Xbox so I can actually do productive things, ...

seeing live music, at an improv comedy show, seeing a movie, falling asleep at 9 because I am that cool...

I don't rinse and repeat...

you're fine with alcohol abstaining atheists.