I love listening to This American Life. I save up podcasts and on the days I decide to spend in bed, I'll listen to as many as I can get in before feeling too guilty about spending a whole day inside.
I love Port Townsend. It's exactly the kind of small town I'd like to end up in. Small independent, fair trade coffee shops. A record shop where I can rummage through old vinyl for hours. An old pub with a view of the Sound, amazing seafood and my favorite beer. I can walk or bike everywhere and I'm just a short, scenic drive and a ferry ride to Seattle and my family.
I am obsessed with music; music history, music engineering, music listening. I have degrees in both music history and music engineering and would like to think that, by now, I have the equivalent to what would be a doctorate in listening to music. Not that I'm an expert or anything...I just really love it. I have a pretty big record collection. Most of it is from my father's collection he had when he was a teenager and a few from when my grandma was young, but I've spent a small fortune on anything and everything that catches my eye.
I've played soccer pretty seriously since I was able to walk. I love hiking, camping, and kayaking...pretty much anything that has to do with being outside. I practice yoga almost everyday and try to meditate as long as the chatter will let me.
I love the smell of pears and basil and I love the fact that there is a word for the way it smells after it rains (Petrichor)...but what Seattlite wouldn't love that word?
For the most part I try not to take myself or life too seriously.

Just trying to figure out how to stay happy. I think I might be onto something too. I wouldn't mind living a simpler life. I love the city and want to be close to it, but after a few more years of school and a few more years of paying off my student loans, I'll move to a small town and buy a small house and build a small garden. I can imagine waking up on Sundays, putting on my robe and my favorite album, lighting some Nag and relaxing.

moving from hobby to hobby. I love having hobbies and learning new things but after I get somewhat proficient at something I tend to move on to something else. For instance, I taught myself how to knit and have half a dozen incomplete but nicely knitted scarves. Other hobbies I've started: candle-making, baking, arts and crafts, photography, blogging, and a small jaunt with Buddhism...

I'm shy when I'm in public by myself. I love being around people, but I clam up when they try to talk to me...my mind goes completely blank.

Books: Anything by Tom Robbins, Wally Lamb, Herman Hesse, David Sedaris, Jerry Spinelli, Paulo Coelho, Richard Grant, JK Rowling, or Gloria Naylor. I also really love Gilead, The Last Summer of Reason, Letters To A Young Poet, Blink, The Brain That Changes Itself, Hero

Movies/TV shows: Amelie, Once, Ong Bak, Almost Famous, It's A Wonderful Life, Louis CK Stand Up, The Guild, It's Always Sunny, Freaks and Geeks, anything on the Discovery Channel or History Channel, Animal Planet!!!

Music: Joni Mitchell, The Velvet Underground, Sublime, Tegan and Sara, Camera Obscura, Mazzy Star, The Czars, Goldspot, The Magic Numbers, Sufjan Stevens, DMB, Rilo Kiley, Otis Redding, CCR, Bon Iver, Old and in the way, Janis Joplin, Bob Marley, Brazillian Girls, Erykah Badu, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Smashing Pumpkins, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, Ella Fitzgerald, Imogen Heap, Radiohead, Aqualung, Of Montreal...I could go on and on...

Oh how I love food...here I've compiled a list of my favorite food/restaurants in Seattle:
Sushi-Musashis, Italian-Mama Melinas, Breakfast/Brunch-Rusty Pelican or 14 Carrot Cafe, Pizza-Tuta Bella or Pizza Gallery (in Burien), Bar food-Six Arms (mainly for their delicious tots) or Buckleys, All-time fav-Cutters, Thai-In the Bowl or Thai Tom, Seafood-anywhere in Pike Place, Bars-Lindas or The Roanoke or anywhere that serves alcohol, Dessert-Dilettante or B&O Espresso, Best Place For Bloody Marys-Coastal Kitchen, Chinese-Louie's, I'm still looking for my favorite Mexican food....did I mention I love to eat?

Music
Good Food
Family/Friends
Exercise
Nature
My Toothbrush

swimming pools...

Probably hanging out with friends or laying in bed reading and listening to music.

I'm not a very private person. Ask me whatever you'd like...

you dare...