I like to make things epic.

I'm a feminist, aspiring photographer, international travel enthusiast, anthropology geek, and lover of the arts. ENFP/INFP split. I suffer from a severe case of wanderlust, and people watching is one of my favorite past times. I like camping and being on the road. Ireland has my heart. I'm content pretty much anywhere, doing anything, with anyone. I "live for this, being thrown out just to be thrown back in again".

I've recently come to the realization that I'm neither a follower nor a leader, but rather an observer. I like the idea of studying other people for a living. I often document travels, trips, and daily excursions with film in a mostly futile attempt to capture the mindblowing cinematic beauty that punctuates my life. I'm painfully nostalgic with a tendency to hold onto the past with a white-knuckled grip. My biggest fear is forgetting.

I'm not much of a cynic, although I can certainly appreciate some snark in doses. It really upsets me when people crap on others' enthusiasm for life, for whatever reason. I genuinely enjoy people and just like to experience them as the enigmas that they are.

I'm a Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) major at the University of Washington in Seattle. I recently realized that I have enough room left in my course of study to minor in Women Studies, which is exciting. I'm seriously considering going for a masters in mental health therapy after I graduate, but will undoubtedly take some time off first.

I am also a barista at a specialty coffee shop in the U-district. I learn new things every day about coffee and coffee culture, and there's never a dull moment. I really, really love the coffee world, which is slightly concerning. Realjob, what?

Taking pictures of old things/rural/urban decay. Trespassing. Perceiving life as way more exciting and intense than it really is. Making little moments feel very grand. Being satisfied with being unsatisfied. Inconsistency. Adapting. Laughing at myself (because I truly am a ridiculous person sometimes, as are most people, I've found). Loving.

I think my green eyes catch people's attention first.

Books: I gravitate toward non-fiction, ethnographies, feminist and GLBT lit, etc. Also, Dave Eggers. Pretentious little shit.

Movies: Frida, The Hours, Aimee and Jaguar, Magdalene Sisters, Mulholland Dr, Lost in Translation, and Wall E.

Music: Folk, twee, new weird america, shoegaze, and anything with a symphonic guitar sound, handclaps, or nonsensical lyrics. www.last.fm/user/cannonfodder

Food: Sushi.

I can do without a lot of things, I'm discovering. I need gentleness, sincerity, intimacy, music, art, and hope.

other people. I'm fascinated by them, and the possibilities and experiences they represent.

wiped from baristajob, perhaps struggling to go out and be a normal twentysomething, most likely sleeping like the 80 year old my body thinks I am.

I'm embarrassed of my propensity toward romanticism, and my naivete. I like to scheme and dream in manner reminiscent to Kerouac.

I secretly want someone to validate that part of me and say that life is really like that, or can be like that, occasionally, if you want to seize it.

you are a gentle person looking for other gentle people.