I'm a product/packaging designer for the toy industry. Perfect gig for someone who's imagination never grew up. "Up" no, "Sideways and a little twisted", perhaps.

When I'm not busy at the day gig, I'm writing, illustrating, and self-publishing comic books and graphic novels. Keeps me from running the streets, setting $**t on fire.

Writing, Drawing, Painting, Storytelling… at least in my work. In real life, I've been told my stories can be a bit on the rambly side. But I'm aware of it and working towards finding that sweet spot between curt and exasperating.

Problem solving, organization, I would say time management, the the unfortunate truth is that any time I save by being organized I just cram in more things that I want to do/learn.

I'm an overly-curious person who wishes I had time to learn everything, but all of my interests tend to be time-consuming,

My smile

Books:
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
The Best Short Stories of JG Ballard
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (The movie would have been awesome if they'd had the balls to do the original ending)
Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
Pretty much any Nancy Friday book
On a Pale Horse & For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony
Skeleton Crew & On Writing by Stephen King
The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thompson
Why Things Are by Joel Achenbach
Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore
Cages by Dave Mckean
WE3 and The Filth by Grant Morrison
Kabuki by David Mack
Planetary By Warren Ellis
Creature Tech by Doug Tennapel
The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlen

Movies:
Fight club (yeah, it's a little douchey that I'm wearing a Fight Club shirt in my pic. Don't care. Love the movie). Swingers. Dune. The Fountain. Who's afraid of Virgina Woolf? Inception. Legend. Chasing Amy. Clerks. Pulp Fiction. I Heart Huckabees. Videodrome. A Dangerous Method. (Cronenberg films in general)

Podcasts! I spend a ton of hours at the drawing table (literally). I love working with music on, but I love listening to radio shows even more. Also great for biking/jogging/commuting. Here's some of my favorites:

Storytelling:
Risk (http://risk-show.com/)
This American Life (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/)
The Moth (http://themoth.org/)

Comedy:
WTF With Marc Maron (http://www.wtfpod.com/)
Hollywood Babble-On (http://smodcast.com/channels/hollywood-babble-on/)

Science:
Radiolab (http://www.radiolab.org/)
Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/podcasts.cfm?type=science-talk)
Story collider (http://storycollider.org/)

Eclectic talk/interviews:
NPR Fresh Air (http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/)
Studio 360 (http://www.studio360.org/)
TED Talks (http://www.ted.com/)

History:
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh)

Travel:
Indie travel podcast (http://indietravelpodcast.com/)

Writing:
I Should be Writing (http://murverse.com/)
The Creative Penn (http://www.thecreativepenn.com/)
Nerdist Writer's Panel (http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/nerdist-writers-panel/)
Scriptnotes (http://johnaugust.com/podcast)
The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith (http://www.theqandapodcast.com)

Finance:
Marketplace Money (http://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-money)

Music (Ok. My tastes are pretty eclectic)
Devics, Rolling Stones, Kanye West, Mastodon, Zoe Keating, Ben Frost, Hans Zimmer, Common, Killing Joke, Deftones, Johnny Cash, The Police, NWA, NIN, Atari Teenage Riot, Korn, Santigold (Just discovered her, but damn, Woman is awesome), Miles Davis, Mars Volta, Michael Jackson (Ben makes me tear up and I aint ashamed to admit it), Muse, Black Sabbath, Lana Del Ray, Faith No More, Danzig, James Brown, STP, Kid Cudi, Placebo, John Legend, Kidney Thieves, Peter Gabriel, Rasputina, Type O Negative, Russian Circles, Outkast, Radiohead, Hope For a Golden Summer, Ambulette, Clint Mansell (SDTK to The Fountain may be one of the most perfect pieces of music ever created)

I don't have cable, so I catch up on everything via Netflix or Hulu. Oddly enough, my three favorite shows are all on FX. Louie, Archer, and Justifed.

Friends
Family
Art
Imagination
Music
Podcasts

My place in the universe and how to relate to the world around me better

I just listened to a radio show about a couple that met on Ok Cupid. Best commercial for this site EVER!
(http://storycollider.org/podcast/2013-02-10)

I should be out on a date with you! But since that hasn't happened yet…

I'm probably out having drinks with friends, watching a movie ( in the theaters or on Netflix), curled up with a good book, or writing/drawing (which my closest friends think I spend way too much time doing. )

I'm pretty shameless. There's not much I won't admit to. Ask me something private.

You're a pseudo-intellectual working on becoming the real deal.

If you're as sexy as you are sarcastic. But just barely.

If you're a good girl who wants to be bad, or a bad girl who wants to be good.

If you like the game Cards Against Humanity.

You're a Polymath. I wish I were. I'm jealous