I am mouse tip-toeing through life, scurrying from class and work, but when I sleep I dream of porous moons in Switzerland, grand escapes from angry cats and a life outside convenience.

I'm just on my way.
I want things to start happening.

I'm studying for my BA in creative writing and literature at CSULB. Working as a preschool teacher, volunteering at a literary arts center, trying to organize a long-term literary-artistic-story-cookbook collective project. (check it out & invite people! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16678819356)

Things I Want More of In My Life:
hiking and camping, road trips, playing my violin, photo-taking, crossing things off to-do lists in a timely manner, arts and crafting, collective projects, ROLLER DERBY, traveling, spontaneity, 'harmonious human relationships', reading outside prescribed texts, writing outside prescribed exercises, people and the uncertain.

eating, sleeping, sincerely enjoying bad television, being a general sloth

I am short and socially retarded.

a. Franny & Zooey, Nine Stories, Gatsby, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird, Brave New World, 1984, The Stranger, Lord of the Flies, Life of Pi, The Prophet, Revolutionary Road, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Odyssey, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Music for Chameleons, Watchmen, The Beats, Cummings, Neruda, Lorca, Gibran, Blake, Eliot, a number of words arranged in a pleasant way according to content ideas and the musicality of language. Blaaaaah.

currently: THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1860-PRESENT, and, THE NORTON SHAKESPEARE, BASED ON THE OXFORD EDITION AKA MONSTER TOME OF BACK ACHES.

b. INTO THE WILD, Little Miss Sunshine, I heart Huckabees, Wes Anderson, Children of Men, Waking Life, The Matrix, Everything is Illuminated, A Clockwork Orange, American Beauty, About a Boy, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine, City of God, Harold & Maude, Pan's Labyrinth, Lives of Others, The Visitor, Diving Bell and the Butterfly

c. The Smiths, Joy Division, The Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, The Beatles, Belle & Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Kings of Convenience, Air, Bauhaus, Wilco, The Polyphonic Spree, Velvet Underground, Her Space Holiday, Girl Talk, DeVotchKa, Broken Social Scene, Mountain Goats, Dead Can Dance, Nina Simone, Led Zeppelin, White Stripes, Radiohead, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Daft Punk, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Milhaud, The Roots, Deltron 3030, Black Keys, Gorillaz, Cake, Bad Brains, Crass, the Cramps, Pokey LaFarge, Robert Johnson, Americana/Bluegrass/Roots/anything with a fiddle, string quartets etc. etc. etc.

http://www.last.fm/user/zaftig

d. sourdough toast, mushrooms, spinach, asparagus, couscous, unagi, duck, baked brie and roasted garlic, generally bland food, anything seasoned with rosemary, the blood of newborns.

writers, recluses, and rats

oracles, seraphim, and violinists.

process /product/ purpose

a) reading in my very modest living situation

b) driving aimlessly

c) making really awkward small talk with some sort of social lubricant in hand

I have my own urologist.
I'm incredibly timid and hard to approach.

you want to.