Let's see... I'm a twenty-something graduate with a degree in philosophy and religion (read: totally useless), and I spent the last couple months in a graduate program in Vancouver, BC, CA before deciding that academia is not the place for me. I'm now back home in St. Louis preparing to take the necessary classes for getting my secondary ed certification, at which point I'd like to teach in the currently unaccredited St. Louis City public schools. But basically I'm a bum right now.

Personally, I spend most of my time complaining/reading about politics and reading every ebook I can get my cyber hands on. I'm very vocally atheist and gay and progressive (a socialist at heart, actually), and I spend a lot of time worrying about rights for those three communities (and others beside). I am now and have been for years a straight-edger, and I'm not much of a partier, but I don't feel that makes me any less fun. I enjoy a lot of different things, but what I do for fun most of the time these days is hit the park and playground with my almost-five-year-old twin sisters, where I run myself ragged chasing them all over the place. I also spend a lot of time cooking vegetables.

Oh, yeah, and I don't drive.

Right now, I'm doing nothing. No, that's not true-- I'm preparing to get my secondary ed certification, so that I can hopefully get a job teaching in the St. Louis City public schools, since they are not accredited and desperately need teachers. Beyond that, I'd love to go to law school one of these days, and I dream of owning an organic farm here in Missouri.

political debates; learning languages; speed-reading; educating; memorizing episodes of "The Golden Girls;" impressing my mother and grandparents; Clue, Monopoly, and Trivial Pursuit; entertaining my four-year-old sisters; bouncing on a trampoline; fantasizing about running for president.

The first things people usually notice about me are my (lack of) height and my dorky glasses.

My favorite books are usually political nonfiction, though anything by Elaine Pagels is a go. As far as fiction goes, I read Elizabeth Peters, Thomas Wolfe, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and the Bible.

The music I listen to most of the time is classical-- we're talking Dvorak, Shostakovich, anyone loud and dramatic-- or classic jazz and blues-- if it's Ella or Sarah, I probably have it. I also listen to lots of eighties garbage; Goldfinger, Rancid, NOFX, the Suicide Machines, and that ilk; Tori Amos; Broadway soundtracks; and I am in love with Amanda Palmer.

As far as movies go, I don't watch a lot of them. I like bad fifties sci-fi, and I love Alfred Hitchcock, but other than that, I've got a lot of random movies that aren't really too connected to each other.

Food? Food. Vegetables! I am a proud and staunch vegan, and I love fruits and vegetables of all sorts (not cucumbers). I don't, sadly, eat as healthily as I should, but I'm trying to remedy that. If you asked me what I eat more than anything, I'd have to say sunflower seeds.

My glasses, "The Golden Girls," my books (let's call them collectively "a thing"), tofu, my family, and Mache

Most of my thoughts are on human and animal rights these days, though I reserve a fair amount of time for all political discourse, and I like to fantasize about owning a farm.

sitting on my butt, reading (either a book or on my laptop). I don't have much of a social life. But ask me about my Saturdays!

I've had at least two, and potentially five or six, random seizures, months apart, for an undiagnosable reason. I've been to two emergency rooms, and I even made friends with a very nice doctor who kept an eye on me after I had a ten-minute grand mal seizure on a plane from Vancouver to Chicago. But I don't have health insurance, and I can't get on Medicaid, so I can't afford to go to a neurologist! Hooray for America!

the FSM so inspires you.