My name is Amber and I'm a huge dork. I'm also a pretty big deal. And I have a love affair with all things Rilke.

"I used to be a hopeless romantic. I am still a hopeless romantic. I used to believe that love was the highest value. I still believe that love is the highest value. I don't expect to be happy. I don't imagine that I will find love, whatever that means, or that if I do find it, it will make me happy. I don't think of love as the answer or the solution. I think of love as a force of nature— as strong as the sun, as necessary, as impersonal, as gigantic, as impossible, as scorching as it is warming, as drought-making as it is life-giving. And when it burns out the world dies."

Interests: photography, living the nun lifestyle, reading, daydreaming, making love not war, art, foreign films, good conversation, love letters, writing, movies, film, modeling, making documentaries, painting, coloring books, coffee, paris, drama, religion, great food, literature, starbucks java chip frappucinos, ballroom dancing, hot chocolate, stars, jane magazine, texting, recess, my blackberry, london, veiled hats, heartache, tiaras, car dancing, loud music, love songs, disney movies, oversize sunglasses, calla lilies, new york, sleeping all day, honesty, emotional purging, pretty ladies, jewish boys, mistakes, idiot jed, being soliloquy girl, drag queens, depth perception issues, spatially challenged individuals, b-boys, old hollywood glamour, black and white photography, making bitches look bad, mad libs, self-actualization, getting my learn on, irony, making out, comedy, making ridiculous faces, hippies, 1940's, spending time with my family, journaling, air quotes, crushing, fogie love, guilty pleasures, black nail polish, bad love, broken hearts, smiling's my favorite, yiddish, classy broads, occupational guess who, pro-choice, history, women's rights, voting, player hating, dead pockets, the drama mafia, karaoke, rainy days, long walks on the beach(ha), phone tag, procrastination, frenemies, believing in happy endings, big love, konstantine, hobo hair, being so scene, accepting my nerdom, geekjoy, confessions, divine intervention, the detroit lean, easy bake ovens

MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/ambahdisastah
FLICKR: http://flickr.com/people/missdisaster/

I used to be a photography/fine arts major. Currently I'm an English major with a creative writing minor and I'm looking to get my teaching certificate in English so I can teach middle/high school.

Update: I'm procrastinating like there IS a tomorrow. Can't wait to frame my medal I'll receive for taking the longest time to get an undergraduate degree in the history of the world, ever. UM probably loves me more than any other student due to all of the millions they'll be making on my behalf. So yeah, there you have it. I enjoy stalling and dicking around more than actually being productive with my time.

In my free time (you know, all of the hours when I'm not cramming right before a big exam or finishing a paper ten minutes before it's due) I lead a book club and spend way too much money on coffee at my favorite little cafe.

making people laugh
bruising myself with my klutzy ways
staying up all night
proving to the world that there is no such thing as TMI
spending way too much money

My pretty ridiculous and expressive eyebrows. A close second might be my willingness to laugh my ass off in public without restraint. Unless you're a male of the heterosexual persuasion, or a female who bats for the other team, or anything with... eyes, in which case you'd be noticing "the girls".

Books: Jeanette Winterson is my favorite novelist. Some of my favorite books are The Time Traveler's Wife, Written on the Body, The World and Other Places, The Powerbook, The Architect's Brother, My Sisters Keeper, Anne Sexton, Femme Fatale, Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Chronicles of Narnia, Girl Interrupted, The Virgin Suicides, Speak, Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Movies: Wide Awake, The Princess Bride, Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Christmas, Clue, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Elf, Hoodwinked!, Edward Scissorhands, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mind the Gap, The Virgin Suicides, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chronicles of Narnia, The Breakfast Club, Almost Famous, Frequency, Old School, Orange County, The Goonies, Zoolander, Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Alice in Wonderland, Shall We Dance, Strictly Ballroom, Dirty Dancing, Mad Hot Ballroom, Donnie Darko, Igby Goes Down, Imaginary Heroes, The Ice Storm, Boondock Saints, Lost in Translation, Willow, Signs, School House Rock, Heavenly Creatures, If Lucy Fell, Me And You And Everyone We Know, What The Bleep Do We Know, The Importance Of Being Earnest, Lords of Dogtown, My Summer Of Love

TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daria, The Soup, Sex & the City, The Office, Project Runway, Ugly Betty, Friends, The Hills, CSI, O'Grady, Lost, Dawson's Creek, Felicity, Popular, (I'm a sucker for every WB show ever created :/), What Not to Wear, The Andy Milonakis Show, I Love the 80's, The Simple Life, Best Week Ever, Jeopardy, Americas Next Top Model, Oprah, Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, A Pup Named Scooby Doo, Cold Case, Dr. Katz, Mythbusters, The Travel Channel, Match Game PM, Chelsea Lately

Music: 30 Seconds to Mars, The Apples In Stereo, Ari Hest, Athlete, Augustana, Badly Drawn Boy, Broken Hearts Club, Broken Social Scene, Bush, Camera Obscura, Coldplay, Cursive, The Damnwells, Daughtry, Death Cab For Cutie, Dujour, Eisley, Fall Out Boy, Feist, The Fray, Greg Laswell, Gym Class Heroes, The Hard Lessons, Iron and Wine, James Blunt, Johnathan Rice, Jon McLaughlin, Joseph Arthur, Journey, Justin Timberlake, The Killers, Matchbox Twenty, Melissa McClelland, Oasis, OK Go, Paolo Nutini, The Postal Service, Radiohead, The Shins, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate, Taking Back Sunday, U2, Young Love

My favorite pillow, the attachment I have to it is worse than a child with their blankie. My Blackberry, which I'm pretty sure is my soul mate in inanimate object form. Curve for Men cologne, it's my favorite scent in the entire world and I find it irresistible. My iPod, so I can dance like a fool and sing horribly for whoever is within a twenty foot radius of me. Sleep, I'm incredibly addicted to napping all throughout the day.

Sixth thing to be determined at a later date. Procrastination, perhaps?

Editors

• baridude

If I'll ever find another's heart that beats like mine.

Staying home like a loser. I climb in bed and watch The Soup while eating Ben & Jerry's Everything But The... ice cream. Life is good.

A friend told me to put "I like fake boobs". Happy now?

I guess if I somehow seem appealing. Although if you're looking for sex of any kind then note the "wholesome" and "living the nun lifestyle" on my profile.