**I'm in Peace Corps Morocco right now. I'm looking for new friends...people I can connect with on-line. I'd like to be in a relationship, but being aboard, I can't fully devote myself to one right now.**

I recently turned 30 (gulp). I started to think about the things I've learned in my life. Here's what I came up with:

10. My philosophy professor once told me that the single most revolutionary act you can do against the gravity of life is to dance. I understand her now.

9. Live out your passions in some way. I love to write, but I know I’m never going to be a world-renowned poet…and that’s okay. That’s not why I do it. I do it because I love it.

8. I love kids and I will happily devote my life to them.

7. Kindness is a way of life – done for its own sake. I try not to speak one word or take one step if it doesn't add something to someone’s life. It’s worked out pretty good so far.

6. Being sensitive is a great thing. I’ve remained open. I’m not perfect, but I feel like I do a good job understanding and sympathizing with people. In turn, there’s some really incredible people in my life I'm so grateful for.

5. Good food – hands down…beats any drug.

4. Tell your loved ones that you love them. Kiss and hug them as much as you can and for as long as you can without being creepy.

3. Adventures…expeditions to far off distant places are nice to have, but there comes a time when you want all the roads ahead of you to lead you home.

2. Meeting more people who will love me and respect me in the future would be nice, but not necessary. I’m only truly important to the people who love me…and that’s fine by me.

1. I am enough.

I presume that this is asking what my occupation is? Since you're not doing anything worthwhile if you're getting paid for it...even if you hate your job.

Since September 2011, I've been in Morocco doing Peace Corps. I'm a Youth Development Volunteer.

Before Peace Corps, I was in the business of taking care of Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED) children from ages 6-17 for more than 4 years. Due to their histories of abuse, many of them have issues. I did that for about 4 years and I loved it (in general). I still keep this coloring page in my wallet that a girl made me when I first started working.

avoiding questions that make me self-conscious.

I'm funnier than Jesus.

Books: 1984, Looking Backward, The Plague, Cat’s Cradle, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Little Prince, The Silver Cloud Cafe, Candide, The Grand Inquisitor, Oh The Places You’ll Go!

Movies: Good Will Hunting, The Shawshank Redemption, Philadelphia, Schindler’s List, Gandhi, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, As Good As It Gets, Contact, Gattaca, When Harry Met Sally, The Terminal, Casablanca, Shakespeare in Love, Before Sunset, Dead Poets Society, The Breakfast Club, Ratatouille, The Namesake, Talladega Nights, Chocolat

Music: Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, The National, Tallest Man on Earth, Blue Scholars, Mumford & Sons, The Ramones, Son of Ran, Sufjan Steven, The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, Frightened Rabbit, Jessie Ware, The Cure, The Civil Wars, Angus & Julia Stone, The Weepies, Bon Iver, Geographer, Florence + The Machine, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Iron & Wine

Food: Mexican, Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, parents' homecookin'!

Since family and friends aren't "things"...I guess these will do:

- My Takamine guitar
- My bike (a Fuji Newest 3.0 road bike)
- My black North Face jacket with hoodie
- My Brooks shoes - "The BEAST"
- My journal
- The coloring pages, drawings, and notes that kids have given me throughout the years.

Things I see and experience that would make good poems.

Beats me. Contact me on a Friday night and see what I'm up to.

I hate bugs like I hate injustice.

you feel like chatting.