Just another nice, funny, smart, creative, multi-degreed girl in the rock and film industry. You will not be bored.

2009 has been all about transitioning from a decade of being a part-time arts person with a day job to full time. I quit the law firm & moved to Austin in February.. four months later, I'm the Production Manager for the Austin Film Festival, helping a friend start a new venue and still videotape rock bands when I get a chance. I'm not making as much money, but I'm happy as hell.

Event production, video camera operation, writing, cooking all Betty-Crocker style, slam poetry, reading maps, getting ready for road trips in 20 minutes, having conversations with pretty much anyone, making out, making you laugh with terrible "walks into a bar" jokes.

My sparkling personality. Or my rack.

I'm reading a lot of sci-fi now, mainly Phillip K. Dick and Heinlein. Lots of my friends (and well, me too) are published writers, so I keep up with them, but I also have a few shelves full of classics -- kid's books like the Jungle Books, Phantom Tollbooth, the Narnia Chronicles; fiction like Salinger, Dorothy Parker, Tom Robbins, Jane Austen, Bradbury, Asimov, Tolkien; a stack of nature books, and a stack of writing & film books for when I have an idea at 3am and need to research. I also just recently got my Texas library card.. learning never stops.

According to friends, I think too much on a regular basis, so I use books & movies to escape. In movies, I go through phases.. tons of action & sci-fi, then a streak of noir (Double Indemnity & Some Like It Hot this week), then heists, then documentaries on weird games -- Air Guitar Nation, Spellbound, Fistful of Quarters, etc. The new job, of course means I'll be all about indie films for a while.... Music, well, I work with bands, so I like pretty much anything, but lean toward well-played melodic rock with a heavier edge. But I still hang with twang, blues, zydeco, jazz, classic rock, Irish rock, etc. etc. Just don't suck.

Food -- I tend to cook pretty meat & potatoes, but am working on a lifestyle change in diet & more regular outdoors stuff. Austin's having a good effect on me. I'm a huge fan of Austin's cuisine & have a growing belief that all life's wrongs can be cured with breakfast tacos.

Joy, hope, the ability to see & help create a better future, my vast and growing collection of friends, the ability to drive (and therefore change my world in a day), the ability to rock the f*** out.

Ways that I can help my incredibly talented friends make a living doing what we do best -- bringing music, writing & art to people who need it.

Working a show, stomping around clubs by myself, or home curled up on the couch with a good movie.

I think my lifestyle makes me nearly undatable. At least I've had trouble finding people that can keep up. Not a challenge, just a fact.

You're open-minded, clever, creative, confident, affectionate, love travelling, people, and believe in making the world you want to live in.

Oh, and it wouldn't hurt to think I'm cute. ;)