I moved to Seattle in September after living the first 22 years of my life in Massachusetts and the last two in California. I love music, reading, writing, going to museums, all sports, yoga, intellectual/philosophical conversations and I recently got into some free mediation classes which have been really interesting so far.

I'm a AmeriCorps literacy tutor at a public high school in Seattle, and I love going to work everyday. My long term goal is get a masters in history or education (or both) and become a high school history teacher, and maybe travel the world teaching.

Ping pong, writing history papers, riding my bike down hills, being able to work with high schoolers everyday and keep my sanity

Movies/TV: Wes Anderson, Coen Brothers, Tarantino, Arrested Development, Peep Show, Breaking Bad, I Heart Huckabees
Music: Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, Andrew Bird, Modest Mouse, Dr. Dog, Neutral Milk Hotel, other indieish bands, classic rock, social justice oriented/underground hip hop, folk. I also have about 40 records.
Books: David Foster Wallace, Orwell, Stienbeck, Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest, The Savage Detectives, the Catcher in the Rye, The Princess Bride, On the Road, most books from high school English, the new york times, the new yorker, national geographic
Food: Mostly vegetarian, Indian, Thai, Mexican
NPR: Everything, but especially This American Life, Radiolab and the Moth

these quotes:

"To be out of the moiling street
With its swelter and its sin!
Who has given me this sweet
And given my brother dust to eat?
And when will his wage come in?"
--William Vaughn Moody

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding."
-- Jack Kerouac "On the Road", 1957

"The white man has the black man over in Vietnam fighting the yellow man for the country that the white man took from the red man in the first place."
--Stokley Carmichael on the Vietnam War

"Put your good where it will do the most." --Tom Wolfe

At a show, having interesting conversations with cool people

We have similar interests or passions, are bored, or want practice talking to strangers. Considering most people are strangers, it seems like a skill we all need.