Let's start with facts: My bedroom has purple curtains- I love the color purple. I work in a place that sells an amazing number of totally useless things (wind-up penguin salt and pepper shakers, napkin rings). I am double majoring in English and Anthropology with a certificate in Native American Studies. I've lived in England and studied Shakespeare. I've done an archaeological dig and lived in a tent for a month. I have an orange kitchen and I tend to be a serious person. Several of my previous relationships started in tents.

I love being outside, whether walking, hiking, boating, camping.

On the flip side, and considerably less muddy, I love museums, concerts, fine dining, movies, reading, coffee shops, writing, laughing, and having good conversations. I am fond of conspiracy theories and ranting (I would love to have someone to peacefully debate with).

I have no plans on ever being married or having children. I do plan on living an extraordinary life.

Trying to find balance. Embracing my utter nerd-dom.

I dream of being an ex-patriot getting a masters at University of Edinburgh, traveling sustainably until I have had my fill of the world, becoming a professor so I can share my love of learning, and being proven wrong that there is no such thing as one true love (not holding my breath for that one).

Painting my apartment various interesting colors. Ruining cookies with too much flour. Finding a sustainable lifestyle.

Loving, getting lost, being outside, thinking about places, people and their cultures, certain video games, laughing at stupid things, living life off the beaten path, observing, decorating, being girly, being skeptical. Staring at myself in mirrors for vain amounts of time.

Believing the absolute worst of a situation, but never giving up hope and an optimistic attitude. I have an extraordinary capacity for things that make most people slip into lifestyles of security and ignorance. Ignorance is not bliss, and knowledge is power.

My smile- I continue to receive compliments from total strangers. The brain-sucking slug sitting on my head.

Food: Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, French, Indian, Thai, various forms of Middle Eastern, and am open to experimenting. Sometimes I think I need an acre of land to feed my Basil addiction.

Come take a peek at my book shelves.
I love buying books. Seriously.
The fall of Desdemona in Othello was almost too much for me to read. Sometimes I find myself quoting Shakespeare and Austen.

TV: I love Star Trek (TNG), Anthony Bourdain, documentaries, Arrested Development, Family Guy, Futurama, Firefly, MST3K and Grey's Anatomy. However I would never pay for cable, I watch everything via disc. Cable is a brainwashing mechanism (har har har).

Music:
Folk and bluegrass are my current obsessions, and I recently recovered from a jazz binge and classical spree. At this exact moment, Frank Sinatra and other easy listening cheese.

Movies? I love period films and geeky films. I will watch anything if my viewing partner has strong convictions about it, with the exception of a few thrillers.
Movies I watch frequently:
Lord of the Rings
Little Women
Hayao Miyazaki films
Waitress
All versions of Pride and Prejudice
Marie Antoinette
Classics like: Sound of Music, Calamity Jane, Meet Me in St. Louis
I thought Superbad was hilarious and enjoy a few Will Ferral movies, Monty Python

Ross Noble or Eddie Izzard anyone?

At least seven shades of the color purple

A perfectly ripe peach or kiwi

A really good bra (Do you know how hard it is to find one? ...)

Photosynthesis

A Passport (maybe that's all I really need)

A wild climbing tree with a limb low enough for me to reach

My education and those who have given it to me

The number eight

What I'm passionate about (music, the environment, tolerance...), postgraduate degrees, what work I have, how I can enjoy my day better, cuddling, sex, travel. Camping, how I can stretch my dollar further to go on more impulsive trips.

Germany. Germans. Scotland. All my international friends that I won't see for years. Anthropology.

Buying a new tent. Living in a tent, or out of a car. Living in different places.

Unconventional lifestyles.

Injustice, Native American history, corruption, ignorance, the fluidity of 'truth'.

If I am not out with my odd friends, I am in my room singing, listening to music, watching a movie, reading, wandering the moors shouting for Heathcliff, being struck by lightning in the latest thunder storm.

One friday: I was at a bonfire listening to graduate students read poetry and fiction, then having persian food, then momentarily paused at a house party, then dyed my hair with my best friend Auree, and went on a walk along the lake.

Another Friday: I was at the opening of the Andy Warhol exhibit at MAM After Dark where everything was pink, even my sweater and lipgloss (by happenstance). Then spent an hour in a used bookstore, pouring over strange poetry anthologies and history books about sex.

Yet another: I was in Missouri, listening to a southern country man in a very small-town bar. Slept in a 1930s cabin in a cot before a fire, one of my top sleeping experiences (until the fire died and I froze).

I think German and glasses are sexy.

Oh, I also have this weird love of chalky candy. I am one of the only people under the age of 70 who eats Necco wafers and enjoys it. (Pez, smarties, fake cigarettes, candy hearts, candy necklaces, Bottlecaps, etc.)

You have the initiative to write a letter compelling enough that it will force me to respond.

You are not a pervert (there are times and places for these things, and OkC is not one of them).

You are driven to improve yourself and lead an extraordinary life.