I'm Sam. Hey.

I'm a smart lady with a lot of great friends and a good head on my shoulders. I'm not generally dramatic or high maintenance. I've been told I'm pretty clever and quite hilarious. But, everything's relative. I don't take myself too seriously, and neither should you.

I'm a world traveler. A knitter, a painter, a writer, a bad/cheesy/inappropriate joke maker, a book reader.

I tend to surround myself with intelligent and witty people.

I'm really into art (both creating and appreciating), literature, writing, camping, hiking, and other outdoorsy things, languages, travel, comedy.

I also really enjoy video games and board games. If you've heard of Arkham Horror, let's get a game together. So long as 3-7 hours of battling lovecraftian creatures just to die miserably at the end sounds like a really good time to you.

Also, if I've learned anything recently, it's that honest is never the wrong way to be.

Climbing mountains and other adventures.
Getting back to the heart of things, improving.
Working, a whole lot.

I'm taking a bit of a break from school this semester in an attempt to better myself physically and mentally outside of the confines of the academic world. But when I'm a full time student, I study languages. (Spanish, French, Chinese.) I have a passion for words. I didn't realize until recently that I can be attracted to the way in which people phrase things. Diction, syntax, vocabulary.

In my spare time I like to knit, crochet, paint, build things, etc. The act of creating useful and/or aesthetically pleasing things is very satisfying. I'm lucky enough to be able to sell my work sometimes.

I also spend a lot of time at the gym and hiking as of late. I'm aggressively working towards not being a fat kid anymore by the end of 2013. It's happening.

cooking, baking, crocheting, languages, writing, grammar, logic, fixing things, making people laugh, interpersonal skills, seeing both sides of an argument, mediating conflicts, making lattes, getting along with pretty much anyone...and being really humble all the time.

I've been told I have really awesome hair, and good skin. Also, I'm a chubby kid, always have been. I like to think I make up for it with cuteness and charm.

Favorite Books! House of Leaves, Slaughterhouse-Five, Daughter of the Forest, The Book of Flying, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Time Machine, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Kite Runner, The God of Small Things, First They Killed My Father, Kiss Me Like a Stranger, John Dies at the End, This Book is Full of Spiders.
(Currently reading: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; Lost on Planet China)
I also read a lot of cracked.com

Favorite Shows! 30 Rock, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Saturday Night Live, Battlestar Galactica, Archer, Workaholics, Star Trek: TNG, Community, Girls, Jeopardy, Adventure Time, Louie, Lost, Mythbusters, The Venture Bros., Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Brak Show

Favorite Music! Blind Pilot, The Decemberists, Rilo Kiley, The Mountain Goats, The Beatles, David Bowie, Billy Joel, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Neutral Milk Hotel, Paul Simon, The Shins, Talking Heads, Outkast

Favorite Movies! Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Royal Tenenbaums, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shaun of the Dead, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Knocked Up, I Love You Man, Spinal Tap, Labyrinth, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Kill Bill, Funny People, American Beauty, Tropic Thunder, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, The Life Aquatic, Harry Potter, Lost in Translation, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, The Fifth Element

Video games! Bioshock, Portal, Portal 2, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Burnout: Revenge, Dead Island

Food! Pretty much anything, really. I ate a fried scorpion in China this summer. Not by any means my favorite food, but I think you get the idea that I'm adventurous in this respect. Also, I love sandwiches. I know that's basic, but nothing is better than a good sandwich from a deli. Also Sushi.

Creativity, Intelligence, Travel, Sunshine, Books, Yarn

The passage of time. And how quickly things can change. And where I'll be a year from now. And the way that each year seems shorter in contrast as your life gets longer.

Raising alpacas. Shearing them, spinning yarn, and making awesome stuff. Repeat.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about practical life choices, and how they can lead me to full time, paid adventuring. I'm thinking maybe once I finish my first degree I'll go back to school for environmental science and go be a park ranger. I think that would be ideal. Yes, definitely.

At work or out having a few drinks with friends or at home knitting.

If you can produce complex sentences using relatively proper grammar and spelling.
If you like an awesome non-dramatic lady, who's into both outdoorsy and nerdy things.
If you think we have some things in common and would like to have a conversation over coffee (or tea) or a casual dinner, or some drinks, or a wandering adventure around town.