I laugh a lot and roll my eyes in an endearing fashion. I recently moved to Athens from Brooklyn, where I worked as an editor and ecologist. I'm big on reading, creative writing, and exploring outside. Oh and all kinds of photography are excellent. But I love my macro lens the most.

Doing the PhD thing in ecology at UGA, studying vampire bats and human rabies in Peru. I'm over in Atlanta once or twice a week for work at the CDC too. When not busy with work, I read short stories or have a beer or two with friends. I also write from time to time.

being a night owl
getting lost in a book
entertaining your dog
reciting obscure information on parasites
identifying leukocytes
having a beer and listening to music
pretending I understanding cooking shows
cooking with bacon
work hard, play hard

I've been told my smile, but also the beard-flannel combo.

BOOKS
Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino
The Storyteller, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Death in the Andes, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Lives of a Cell, by Lewis Thomas
Shedding Life, by Miroslav Holub
Under the Jaguar Sun, by Italo Calvino
Insectopedia, by Hugh Raffles
On the Nature of the Universe, by Lucretius
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
anything by Annie Dillard
anything by John McPhee
anything by Stephen J. Gould
actually, everything by Italo Calvino

MOVIES
I'm a sucker for horror films and Miyazaki. And any Judd Apatow comedy. Cooking shows are a dumb, guilty pleasure.

MUSIC
Bruce Springsteen
The Smiths
The Pixies
Phoenix
Arcade Fire
Mumford & Sons
Old Crow Medicine Show
Ratatat
Girl Talk
Chiddy Bang
Kid Cudi

FOOD
everything, sans mushrooms

something good to read
notebook and pen
hot sauce
a beanie
people to share a beer with
black coffee

infectious diseases
how to combine ecology & anthropology
short story ideas
good sentences
90% of the cells in your body aren't human

reading, dancing, whiskey

I have a phobia of cotton balls

If you think whiskey is delicious. If you want to run around town. If you're down to grab a coffee or drink. Extra points if you have glasses, consider leggings to be pants, and own ugly sweaters.