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My self-summary Propose an edit

Me. Female, highly energetic, optimistic, musical, talented, dreamer, artistic, honest, caring, passionate, quirky, extroverted, vegetarian, performer, nerd, learner, reader, friend, lover, sister, my own master, feminist, too much for some to handle, independent, loyal, dork, sarcastic, flaming liberal, and so much more than can be expressed through adjectives and adverbs....

More energy and curious drive than most. I love to learn. I constantly have creative schemes and ideas for projects bubbling around in my brain.

I like to consider myself open minded and caring. I love intellectual conversations and being silly. Passion is something I put into every aspect of my life. I'm a huge fan of music. Listening to it and performing it completes me. I like bike rides, sledding and flying kites. I like conversation over good coffee or tea and people watching. I like foreign films and foreign food. I like singing on stage, in my shower, and walking down the street. I like coloring with crayons in large coloring books. I also like to build sandcastles outside the sandbox, so expect the unexpected.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

I have officially survived my first year in New York city without being disheartened, bankrupted or disillusioned by this place. I think that's pretty remarkable. In fact, I've thrived. Since moving to Brooklyn last September from the midwest my life has been unbelievably charmed. After working as the assistant to the owner/draper of a great costume shop in Manhattan for 8 months I broke out on my own. I now work as a free lance costume design assistant for theatre and sometimes film. I'm currently working on some projects with some higher profile actors which makes life seem pretty surreal, especially when Ethan Hawke compliments your hair style. Although the days are sometimes long and grueling, they are more often then not very satisfying and fun. I love creating things and theatre has been my life for a while now. My existence is pretty magical at the moment seeing as I can combine those two things for a very decent paycheck.

When I'm not running my face off around the garment district or sequestered in a theatre during tech rehearsals, you can often find me tooling around the city on my bicycle, making vegan cupcakes while watching the venture brothers with good friends, reading in random parks/cafes/subway trains, as well as participating in mischief and shenanigans in general.

I'm also in a band. We're a crazy fun 9 piece "glam folk" group with a weird combination of instruments and more energy than a freight train. I play french horn and sing with "The Dead River Company."

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Not taking myself or the world too seriously. Taking New York by the tail and making it my bitch. Getting tipsy on far too little alcohol. Having the sense of humor of a twelve year old boy. Having far too much energy for some to handle. I get a little excited about being alive.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

My asymmetrical hair cut. My amazing vintage horn rim glasses. I found them at a second hand store in Maine for only $3. Yes you should be jealous.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

A) Books are amazing. I am constantly reading new things. Recent things that have made an impact on me.

*The Quiet American by Graham Greene

*Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

*The Good Solider by Ford Maddox Ford

*A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

*The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

*To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

*Constantine's Sword by James Carroll

*Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

*A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

*Vindication: A life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon

*A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (which i've read every year since I was about 10)

B) Movies;

*Noi the Albino

*Thank you for Smoking

*Willow

*The Princess Bride

*Evil Dead

*Young Frankenstein

*Wet Hot American Summer

*Life Aquatic

*Amelie

*The Emperors New Groove

*The Piano Teacher

*City of Lost Children

C) Lets just say I have a very eccletic musical tatste. I listen to everything from Classical to Screamo to Indonesian folk music and BEYOND! I'm also a bit of an indie rock elitist :) Also since my recent purchase of a macbook the beauty of Podcasts has entered my life. I am now a full on NPR podcast addict.

Architecture in Helsinki, Islands, The Knife, Andrew Bird, Band of Horses, The Acorn, Battles, Beirut, Final Fantasy, Of Montreal, Health, Genghis Tron, Her Space Holiday, Stars, Broken Social Scene, Panda Bear, Grizzly Bear, Joanna Newsom, Spoon, Animal Collective, Stars, Why, Xiu Xiu and so much more

D) Oh Food how I love thee. Seeing as I'm a very strict vegetarian I tend to like things a lot of people would consider "health food." I also adore Thai, Indian, and Turkish food. I have an unnatural obsession with string cheese (I blame being from Wisconsin and having my grandmother work in a cheese factory for 40 years). Garlic stuffed olives have become something I crave more than is normal. I blame the cheap and easy access to them in Italy.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

Friends, Music, a good book, close personal contact (I'm a hugger), good food, corrective lenses in the form of glasses or contacts (I am so freakin' blind)

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

How surreal and amazing living in this city is. Making up back stories and goals for the people I see walking down the street. Ways to actualize my creative goals/urges.

You should message me if Propose an edit

You can tell me what the adjectives I use to describe myself are without the use of a thesaurus or dictionary. Or if you are just a rad human.

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