Working on time management.

I like to read and cook and take pictures and travel by myself. Occasionally I do yoga or other disgustingly healthy outdoors things. I'm from the Pacific Northwest, so it's in my blood.

I like dogs but tend to kill plants. That's pretty much me.

Living the grad student life. The art history life, to be specific. It means I spend a lot of time in coffee shops.

I lived in Japan for three years, but I've back in the States for a solid 2 1/2 years now. It's weird not to identify as an ex-pat anymore.

Taking standardized tests. Waking up on time. Smiling. (Or so I hear.)

The colors are too bright.

The Velvet Underground, The Pixies, The Jam, The Clash, The Cure, The Ramones, Jay-Z, the Black Keys, The Arcade Fire, Bikini Kill, Scissor Sisters, Sleater-Kinney, Yeahsayer, Dirty Projectors, Lil Wayne, Fleet Foxes, Wilco, Vashti Bunyan, Joanna Newsom, the Roots, Nick Cave, Passion Pit, Ratatat remixes, Xiu Xiu, Yura Yura Teikoku, Battles, My Morning Jacket, The Knife, The Gossip, DJ Shadow, MGMT, Calexico, Zazen Boys, LCD Soundsystem, Japandroids, Best Coast, Kanye West, the XX, Big Boi, Tennis.

Depending on my mood, I watch both smart movies that make you think or dumb movies that don't. I dressed as Bill from (of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure) for Halloween this year, which reflected my obsessive re-watching of those movies. I'm not picky, but I can't handle horror movies because I am a delicate flower like that. If it's a costume drama, I'm probably in. I have a weakness for 1930's screwball comedies. (I have a crush on Katherine Hepburn.) Some movies that have made an impression on me: Bad Education, Spirited Away, Star Wars, Kill Bill 1&2, It Happened One Night, the Big Lebowski

I read constantly. Travel books by Paul Theroux, fantasy by Terry Pratchett, magical realism by Murakami Haruki, nonfiction science by Richard Dawkins, and lots and lots of Japanese textbooks. Just to start. Recently, I've been reading books in Japanese. It's hard. 最近乙一が気に入る. My favorite book of recent years was "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell." One of my favorite books of all time is "China Mountain Zhang," which is about figuring out how to live with yourself. I still need some work on that.

When I was a kid, there were a lot of things I didn't like--mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, and so on. Now I love all those things. The only two exceptions are offal and anything that comes from the sea and is not a fish.

the internet
mikan
jewelry to fiddle with
my ipod
an internet-equipped cellphone
and
podcasts and lots and lots of music!

What a girl with a degree in art history is going to do in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that the USA seems to be becoming.

When I'm not fretting about the future, I think a lot about what everyone else thinks about. Y'know. That.

Enjoying a happy hour. Studying and then making dinner with a friend. Going to a show of some kind (this is slightly over-optimistic. I haven't been to a show for ages, but I wish I had.) Watching Netflix.

I dropped out of high school. I have no shame about it.

you're smart, have good taste in music, like to talk about things with strange people you just met, and you have something to say.

Or if you just want to hang out. I'm trying to get out of a rut and explore more of Pittsburgh's possibilities.