Hah! Summarize myself in a little box you say? Bollocks! Can't be done.

I am a graduate student in Anthropology. I love creativity. I love to play guitar, sing, write music, write novels, short stories or poetry. I make arrowheads out of obsidian or basalt.

I travel a lot. My favorite place I have traveled is Mongolia. I love to cook. I love learning. I love hiking.

I am also passionate about standing up for the those who people discriminate against. If you have a problem with gay people for instance, don't waste an email to me.

I try my best to live my life as authentically as I can. No one can know the true meaning of life, but a good working theory for me is to love those who are around to be loved.

I am a graduate Student at Chico State working on my masters degree in anthropology.

I do a lot of traveling. in the last three years I have studied monkeys in the rain forests of Costa Rica, went to China, lived with nomads in Mongolia, and surveyed for Maya ruins in the jungle.

I have to say the Mongolian Nomads are some of the most awesome people I have ever met in my life. They are tough as nails and laugh often. Its really depressing because they are losing their land very quickly. Many of them are now slaves to loans they can't pay back, and the government comes and takes their herds away from them.

My creative writing changes a lot based on what project I am working on but my general style is to try to be pithy and conversational yet not sacrifice musicality. I spend a lot of time thinking about the pacing and arch of a story. A common thread in my work is isolation and dislocation. My principle characters often have some kind of attribute that makes them feel alienated from society. For example they may be pacifists, murderers, physically unattractive, perilously too physically attractive, mentally ill, philosophically paralyzed, suborn beyond reason, or too easily manipulated. They are peripheral people. I like to write about people whose identities are torn between racial, cultural, religious, philosophical and political boundaries. I am interested in the spaces between worlds and the people who inhabit those places.

As for music, It is like medicine for the soul. I need it. I write it like a prescription.

Anything creative! I play guitar, harmonica, I sing, paint, and do creative writing. I have written a novel and am most of the way through two others.

I used to work in professional theatre for years. I grew up in it. I have a lot of hidden talents.

As for literature I love Steinbeck, Tolstoy, Vonnegut, Arvainda Adiga, Yann Martel, Nabokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sherman Alexie and many others.

For film, I love intense movies with good acting and dialogue. for example I Love American Beauty and the Big Kahuna. I love Kurosawa films.

I am don't care much about stuff. As long as I can create I am happy. We can do without most of the things we think we really need.

My guitar
Books
A kitchen to cook in (I love to cook)
A computer for creative writing
love
laughter

People. I am an anthropologist and novelist so I am always people watching. I am interested in peripheral people. There are more interesting stories out there then we could ever hear. AS much as I love literature, real people can be far more dynamic and fascinating than any fictional character.

I'm a graduate student, so, I am in the library getting ready to give a lecture, or doing research. The closest I get to the party is when some drunk undergrad throws up next to my bicycle.