Let me see which historical person's witty aphorism I can steal for this purpose...shall it be Benny Hill or Barbara Bush? I value friendship more than individuality. But I value individuality more than flash mobbing.

I was raised mormon, and left it around 18. My dad is from Germany. I bring this up because i find i usually get along well with other religion escapees and first generation types.

I recently finished an MFA at Mills, and I'm trying to figure out how to keep an art practice going on my own. My studio is at the Headlands and is pretty fantastic. Please talk to me about art! Or let me show you what I've been working on.

I work as an engineer to pay the bills. My day job is for a biomedical device company. A lot of paper work, but the science part is fun - sometimes there are cadavers. I once Barted with two ice chests full of knees to get them MRI'd in SF. I am a covert special agent.

I like books, hikes, floating in lakes - face up, preferably - paddling down rivers, hammocks. I climb a little bit, and sometimes swim. I guess you could assume most of my favorite activities have to do with the outdoors, but I like doing things indoors too. Walls can be great sources of inspiration. Keyholes too.
I own a cello I can't play. I love finding new mediums to experiment with. Right now it's wax and pigments, powerful flashlights, and lead foil.

One-liners, cliff-hangers, new perspectives, old tricks, geometric transforms (you know what I'm talking about), spotting patterns, dissolving stains, flashlight tag
I'm pretty sure i'd be good in a zombie apocalypse.

I don't know about 'people,' but one person said I looked exotic. And my forearms are like drumsticks.
Most probably, folks will notice my eyes. They're extremely hard to look away from. You can call it charm or guile or whatever, but I call it literal hypnosis (I have a BA in that).
Also, most would describe me as quiet. Which they associate with niceness, when in fact I'm ferocious.

Russian novels, young adult fiction, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, Lynda Barry

Colbert and Stewart, Parks and Rec, Dowtown Abbey
Brick, Moonrise Kingdom, Princess Monoke, King of Kong

Devotchka, Mason Jennings, Yeah yeah yeahs, the XX, Modest Mouse.

I eat most everything. My favorties are mexican and this new american stuff like pork bellies and bone barrow. I love cold left over burritos, when all the flavors have soaked into the tortilla. yum yum yum

Possessions are fleeting, but i'm a big fan of my brothers. Truthfully, i'd have a hard time replacing my laptop. Untruthfully, I'd probably throw things like "the ocean" in this list, but it could do without ME so why should I covet it? I'd also just DIE without my People magazine.

the futility of thought when you're being chased by a bear; all those yummy oysters I will one day shuck; lady bits.

naming - in custom order - each of the Seven Dwarves: first alphabetically; then in order of appearance in the film; then by rank: most handsome, most likely to succeed, most likely to marry a rich man, etcetera.
More typically, however, I am hanging out with my friends and we are having a lot of good and fun times and everyone is feeling nice and laughing and there are pretty colors around us.

I am a necrophiliac. No, wait. A narcoleptic. Whichever one of those that means falling asleep while being intimate with dead bodies.

your name is not Paula, Pam, Lindsay, or Bernadette - those are my mothers' names. Also, if you've got a sense of humor.