I've been to college for Photography, Community Health Sciences, and Design. I would like to go to university for Art History. That's as far as it goes for my formal education. My informal education is even more diverse and interesting. I read several books per week on a variety of subjects.

I am freelance graphic designer with a strong interest in print and paper. I spend a lot of time volunteering for various community health organizations and film festivals. I am also an assistant site administrator for a local queer women's social group.

I am poly, queer, and I don't really like the term bisexual but it's what is most applicable. I live with my wonderful friends ice0wl and givemebeauty (she's the best, all you straight boys should go show her your love)!

I'm a great pen-pal to have.

"Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free"

I live my life in centre-ville. I live and work here, and don't own a car, never will, so I keep things within biking distance. A scant 2.5Km away is the Main branch of the Public Library and where I spend a lot of time. Ottawa's library system isn't the best, but I support what we have.

I really like bikes. I don't claim to know all the workings of a bike, but I do like to take them apart and fix them up.

Colour. I think my use of colour is very keen, and I have an eye for it. Every new place I go I look around to break the colours down into a pallette and that's how I encapsulate the memory of that place or moment. If we're together and I seem to be silent and just looking around, it's not that I'm disinterested, it's that I'm building a pallette to remember the experience.

It's very likely I could drink you under the table.

I'm tall? Red hair? Big smile? Even bigger laugh?

I've been told all the above, followed by a comment about how shy or quiet I am.

Books (Fiction): "Fahrenheit 451" - Ray Bradbury, "The Secret History" - Donna Tartt, "Winter Sleep" - Kitakata Kenzo, "Candy" - Mian Mian. "Shipwerks" and "On Parole" - Akira Yoshimura. "Paradise" and "Ring", "Spiral", "Loop" - Koji Suzuki. "The Fuck-up" and "The Dog Run" - Arthur Nersesian. "The Cheese Monkeys" and "the Learners"- Chip Kidd. "Less Than Zero" - Bret Easton Ellis. "Nothing Like the Sun" - Anthony Burgess. "The Bell Jar" - Sylvia Plath. "Out" "Grotesque" and "Real World" - Natsuo Kirino.

Books (Non-fiction): Bright Earth: Art & the Invention of Colour - Philip Ball. I Was Told There'd Be Cake - Sloane Crosley. Book One - Chip Kidd. Eco-Suss - Brian Burns et al.

Poetry: Plath and Irving Layton are the big names I enjoy, and could not live without. Mostly I like to find poetry in small zine's or local anthologies.

Magazines: Dwell, SEED, the Walrus, ReadyMade, the New Yorker

Manga/Graphic Novels/Comics/Webcomics: Nana, Bleach, Chris Ware, Jeffery Brown, Craig Thompson, Questionable Content, Anders loves Maria, Box Brown, Octopus Pie, Hardtime, Gianni Pacinotti.

Movies: The films of...Pedro Almodóvar, Tom Tykwer, Darren Aronofsky, Noah Baumbach, Andrea Dorfman, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Akira Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Michael Arias, Gus van Sant, Takashi Miike, Luc Besson, Chris Marker, Masaki Kobayashi.

Music is key. I listen to anything from Folk to Metal, but keep in mind I abhor commercial radio. I used to have a fairly long list here, but I'll spare you that. Instead I direct you to my Last.fm profile which is more detailed than any list could ever be -->http://www.last.fm/user/autobird

Food: I don't eat meat, dairy, oils or refined grains. Sticking mostly to raw foods/whole foods. This makes eating out with someone (i.e. on a date) a little tricky. But there's always options like the Green Door, the Table, etc. or cooking at my home!

Some way to listen to music, a bike, Library card, kisses, my comfy bed, coffee/tea.

Narwhals.

Running a press of my own.
Having a garden I could live off of.
Paper, ink, paint, twine, fish, birds, sky, sex.

What to do with pieces of string too small to use.

This summer Friday and Saturday nights were spent volunteering with Centretown Movies Outdoor Film Festival.

This fall Friday nights will be cut short because I start German language classes at 9AM on Saturdays for the rest of the year.

Kids scare me. They creep me out, really. I can't wrap my head around it, they're just tiny humans. They're a constant mystery to me.

..if you want to talk! Go out for coffee and talk about books, music, films, art, design, technology, LIFE! A tea in the market, a walk around town, maybe a bike ride. A night at the pub for some more rowdy times.

If you're far away I suggest we become pen pals.