i've found that like a lot of people i start this thing off with something about my education. while that's fine and dandy, my degree doesn't define me. however i do have a healthy respect for people in the service industry because of it. moving right along...

graduated summa cum laude (i really only put that there to sound smart, maybe i'll be more enthusiastic when that gpa gets me something more than latin words) with a degree in hospitality management from the university of central florida. i moved back to asheville after a four year stint in orlando. i'm a vegetarian, but i'm not a hippie. i like loud music and comic books or just a good book in general. i'm always learning something new. i'm more of a night person than a morning person. i really just want to travel honestly.

planning my next escape, working in the hotel business, going to grad school sometime in the future.

entertaining myself, listening to music all the time, being nice to people who are pissed off because we don't have any rooms on a top floor by the pool (or in the building across the street), sleeping on bands i should have listened to ages ago.

that i have a septum piercing, be sure and ask me if it hurt. (please don't actually.)

and i'm short.

(a)a porcupine named fluffy, invisible monsters, i hope they serve beer in hell, preacher, house of leaves, only revolutions, the sandman, fables, world war z, the time traveler's wife, y: the last man, the walking dead

(b1:movies) all the real girls, brick, run lola run, the profesional, fight club, requiem for a dream, the fountain, star wars, life aquatic, sin city, memento, the prestige, series 7: the contenders, shaun of the dead, clue, movies based on comic books, and of course all those stupid comedies, you know, those ones.

(b2:tv) harvey birdman, firefly, dead like me, reboot, arrested development, house, law and order, burn notice, psych, attack of the show, band of brothers

(c) jump little children, modern life is war, champion, have heart, this is hell, ceremony, down to nothing, crime in stereo, betrayed, give up the ghost, pulling teeth, secret lives of the freemasons, new found glory, every time i die, mc chris, comeback kid, glassjaw, richard thompson, kasey chambers, lucinda williams, fall out boy, alexisonfire, city and colour, the june spirit, lucero, she and him, minor threat, dead prez

(d) burritos, vegi burgers, indian, asian. and unlike everyone else in the world, my taste for sushi has gone away. maybe it's just on sabbatical. sorry to disappoint.

(1)memories

(2)escapism

(3)hippos

(4)melissa

(5)humor

(6)sweet tea

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• uhhitsmelisssa

where i could get a time machine? (and the consequences of using one.) melissa in my hippo hoodie.

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• uhhitsmelisssa

i listen to the radio sometimes. i have an eagle scout tattoo. i can't drive cars with manual transmission, but was once a valet.

you're a total babe and so smart it's intimidating.