I moved from the Midwest approximately a year and a quarter ago and despite $30 loaves of bread and $10 gallons of milk, I've yet to regret a day of moving here... even during the current monsoon season we're experiencing. I love exploring new neighborhoods and fostering my terrible sense of direction, karaoke, being outside, music, baseball, dive bars, italy, and northern california. I'm funny(ish), friendly, and could probably beat you at thumb wrestling (but might feign politeness and let you win the first time). I also have a deep abiding loathing for the self summary. I wasn't good at it on the first day of 5th grade and find it equally unappealing now. I like to pretend I'm a little bit better live or email memorexed. :)

listening and remembering things.

Everything is Illuminated, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Westing Game, Even Cowgirls get the Blues, Atlas Shrugged, Cosmicomics, On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Lamb, The Time Traveler's Wife (I'm prepared for a movie rendition butchering), Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, A Wrinkle In Time, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Do They Serve Beer in Hell?, Carol O'Connell, Flannery O'Connor, Where the Wild Things Are, Madeline, Llama, Llama, Mad at Mama, Corduroy, David Sedaris and last but not least, The Little Prince.
To Kill A Mockingbird, Better Off Dead, The Darjeeling Limited, Casablanca, True Romance, Shawshank Redemption, Bottle Rocket, Little Miss Sunshine, The Royal Tennenbaums, Swingers, The Big Lebowski, Roman Holiday, Sabrina (Both versions), Breakfast at Tiffanys, 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Death at a Funeral, Love Actually, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, Sense and Sensibility. Life is Beautiful, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Blue, Anchorman, Cinema Paradiso, The Rats of Nimh, Pete's Dragon, National Lampoon's Christmas/European/ Vacation, Mannequin, Anne of Green Gables, The Brave Little Toaster, Teen Witch, The Worst Witch Ever, Highlander, Shag, Rushmore, Eddie Izzard's Dressed to Kill, and Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, I really am sort of random
Andrew Bird, Joni Mitchell, The Format, Journey, Queen, Cat Power, Damien Rice, Coldplay, Pink Floyd, Keane, Girl Talk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Killers, Jimmy Buffett, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Jason Mraz, Kimya Dawson, Cake, Regina Spektor, The National, Radiohead, Feist, Lisa Loeb, The Fugees, Weezer, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, Ben Kweller, Ben Folds, Wilco, Thom Yorke, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, REM, U2, The Postal Service, Beulah, !!!, Hall and Oates, Modest Mouse, Elliott Smith, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, The Rolling Stone, The Beatles, Dmitri Martin, The Flight of the Conchords, Classic Rock, Ingrid Michaelson, Lauren Hill/The Fugees, Oldies, Bad 80's/90's music, new mixed cds from friends, Classical, Musical Theatre, The theme from Rocky III, try me. I like it all.

flip flops, music, friends/family, sleep/caffeine (one or the other), public transportation, and googlemap.

Sal and Carmine's pizza.