Sing to me, o Muse, of that sage Sarah—

Patron of Poor Conversationalists,

Bookworms, and the Jubilant,

And neither sibyl nor goddess,

But mortal: lover and liver of Life,

[. . .

. . .

. . . staunch?] advocate of Liberty,

Eater of tofu and drinker of tea—

Who wanders, far and wide,

On pacifist, Birkenstocked-foot

Through the peaks and valleys of Life,

Which echo with her abundant laughter,

[. . .]

Armed with her books and many tongues—

And perhaps even a modicum of cognizance!—

Against the ofttimes cruel fancies of Fortune

On this, her ephemeral Quest . . .

--fragment from Homer's lost "Sareia," I.1-18 (translated from the original nonsense)

Being ridiculously happy.

I just finished up my B.A. in Classics at the University of Southern California, and have now left SoCal for the first time in my life to begin my graduate studies at OSU.

That I look (a lot) younger than I am. I've gotten estimates off by as many as 7 (!!!) years.

Favorite authors: Apuleius, J. M. Barrie, Italo Calvino, Catullus, Euripides, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kahlil Gibran, Joseph Heller, Herodotus, Hermann Hesse, Homer, Horace, Martial, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Ovid, Propertius, J. K. Rowling, J. D. Salinger, Sappho, David Sedaris, William Shakespeare, Shel Silversetin, Zadie Smith, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tibullus, Vergil, Kurt Vonnegut, Oscar Wilde

Favorite movies: Adaptation., Amelie, Being John Malkovich, Dogma, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything is Illuminated, Garden State, I Heart Huckabees, Love Actually, Some Like It Hot, 10 Things I Hate About You, Wedding Crashers, Young Frankenstein, and anything Monty Python

Favorite music: Bach, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Joshua Bell, Cake, Chopin, Judy Collins, Sheryl Crow, Death Cab for Cutie, Dido, the Doors, Dvorak, Bob Dylan, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, Hank Williams, Chris Isaak, Jewel, Liszt, Maroon 5, Joni Mitchell, Modest Mouse, Alanis Morissette, Muse, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Elvis Presley, Rachmaninoff, Damien Rice, Semisonic, Simon and Garfunkel, Santana, Frank Sinatra, Smetana, Tchaikovsky

Favorite foods: Greek, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Ethiopian, and anything with a good kick. I also like those "weird" vegetarian/vegan/raw-food restaurants. I recently returned to veganism after a short break living in Italy (hard enough being a vegetarian there!).

Good friends, good books, good conversations, good music, good tea, and ostensibly the word "good"

Spirituality.

Fate.

Love.

Intimacy.

Haecceity.

denique nullumst iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius. --Terence

It depends. Sometimes I'm hanging out with the people I love, sometimes I am curled up with the books I love. A win-win situation, I say.

I actually enjoy washing the dishes. It's my daily dose of Zen.

If that's not "private" enough for you: I also drool uncontrollably in my sleep.

you're looking for a friend (and only a friend!) in the Columbus area. I'm new and I'd like to meet some interesting and intellectual people :)