Not one for tooting my own horn, but some fun (or not?!) facts about me:
1. I love to travel. LOVE.
2. Good sense of humor. I appreciate wry, witty, and sarcastic humor.
3. Loyal
4. I have at least 5 pairs of aviator sunglasses
5. Avid reader
6. I have a very low bullshit threshold
7. Unpretentious
8. I have a wide and varied selection of sneakers, but also keep my ever-growing collection of beautiful heels in their original boxes.
9. I laugh a lot.
10. I make lists
11. I collect matches
12. I consider the following places home- CT, NY, England, Cayman, Italy, and Kenya.
13. I'm a pretty straight shooter
14. I love movies
15. On a super hot day, there is nothing quite like a beer
16. I eat my corn-on-the-cob around, as opposed to typewriter style.
17. (This is a new one) I have recently discovered that Altoids make me sneeze. Does this happen to anyone else?

Okay, that's it for now.

I ask myself this question all too often actually...
Recently have been spending a lot of time studying the subjunctive tense in Italian. Ugh, it's killing me.

placing random actors from what I've seen them in before, hosting a party, remembering names (usually), keeping in touch, random trivia, keeping secrets, geography, packing, making salads, speaking italian when I've had a few drinks, giving a good stink-eye when the moment calls for it, being an aunt to my super-awesome little nephew, folding laundry (it's true, I've been told on multiple occasions how well I fold my laundry by the people who actually work at the laundromat. Always good to have something to fall back on!)

ummm... not sure, I've been seeing myself for my whole life... maybe smile....??? maybe sense of humor??? Oh wait, no, I'm going to go with my name. It's often the first thing someone comments on.

Some favorite books in no particular order: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Life of Pi, Pillars of the Earth, Watership Down, The Shadow of the Wind, The Count of Monte Cristo, Harry Potter, Shantaram, Seabiscuit, Unbroken, Nick Hornby books, Roald Dahl is rad.
Currently reading: Ulysses (it's sloooow going) (updated: this is technically ongoing, but I've semi-given up and still have no clue what the hell is going on) and Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine (oh yeah, I have a totally random and inexplicable fascination with all things submarine related. And shipwrecks- I love a good shipwreck as well).
Oh and also reading Treasure Island on my iPhone

Some favorite movies: The Goonies, Top Gun, High Fidelity, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Up, Out of Africa, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Full Monty, My Cousin Vinny, Trainspotting, The Last of the Mohicans
Last saw in the movie theatre: The Perks of Being a Wallflower (this is out of date, but I can't remember for the life of me what I last saw in the theatre- probably something back at Oscar time)

Music I like: Rolling Stones, CCR, Ryan Adams, Band of Horses, Phoenix, Death Cab, Bon Iver...
Currently on rotation: The Tallest Man on Earth

And some favorite tv shows: Mad Men, Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, Californication, Friday Night Lights, Downton Abbey

Food: I only eat poultry and fish, but other than that I am pretty easy going and will try most things.

In no particular order...
1. my passport
2. floss
3. Marmite
4. a sense of humor
5. sleep
6. books
Family and friends are a given.

my next upcoming vacation, my friends in far off lands, the weekend, apparently these questions and the fact that by its nature, this website forces us to be all Judgy McJudgy on other people... I'm not sure that sits too well with me (she says as she clicks through peoples' profiles and moves on without flinching...).

What the person sitting across from me on the subway is thinking, where are they going, are they happy, what's their story?

Why there are so many guys on this site who think any reference to American Psycho in their ID would be a good idea?!

Also, why do most history teachers bore the hell out of history? I mean it's all about conflict, war, drama, innovation, passion, independence... the list goes on... That's exciting stuff! I've always thought history teachers should teach it like they would a novel, with characters and plots, themes etc. I mean, it's basically one long story, right? It just happens to be true, which always makes a story that much more thrilling.

Probably just taking it easy at the end of the week. But if I can do that with friends (and a glass of wine), all the better.

well then it's not private... duh.

But I will say that I have seen The Parent Trap (Haley Mills version) more times than I can even count. It is a personal affront that they 1. remade it and 2. remade it with Lindsay Lohan.

I find it physically impossible to change the channel if Bring It On is on tv.

you like animals. (I think people who don't like animals have something fundamentally wrong with them).
you want to get to know a cool, genuine, laid back gal.
You believe in the high-five.