The Basics:
I'm a student at the University of Calgary working on a BA in Women's Studies and Philosophy. I'm just about to go into my fifth year, which means I'm 8 months away from losing my Full-Time student status and having to enter this thing called "the real world", unless of course my projected masters programs decide that I'm totally worth the investment.

A Little More Personal:
I'm a fairly goofy person, but I'm very serious about it. I tend to not get along well with people who are unwilling or unable to laugh at their own expense, or at my expense, or simply to get silly about even the most serious of things. (A word of warning: I can't handle awkward, stressful, or emotional situations like a well-adjusted person, so I tend to make a lot of innapropriate jokes at even less appropriate times.)

My Pet Peeves:
Include chewing with your mouth open, not being willing to try new things, and taking things far too personally.

Like I said, I'm working on my BA, but that honestly doesn't seem to mean much these days, in a time when it's hard to get a job without at least a Masters. That being said, I don't really know what I want to do after graduation, though I've considered going into Elementary education, Law, or just going for my PhD and ideally getting a sweet research or professorship gig. At the moment, I'm looking into MLIS programs, because working with books just seems like the best fit. Plus, the UofA has a killer 3-year program, so that's 3 more years to enjoy being a student.

Other than that, I'd like to some day move out of Alberta, ideally to the Lower Mainland of BC, or into Ontario.

Creative things. Although, saying that, I feel like I'm lying. I'm not REALLY good at creative things, I just have an interest in them. A passion for them. I like stencilling my own tshirts, making zines and mini-comics, knitting, painting, sketching, and cartooning. I also love photography, and have a pretty strange collection of cameras, including a decent selection of point-and-shoots, an SLR, a couple standard digitals, and an old-school canon point and shoot that I found at Goodwill for $7 at christmas. (On an updated note, the Goodwill camera has since joined the pile of non-working electronics at my home. But I did pick up a replacement Action-Sampler from the fine people at Lomography.)

I'm also really good at going out on a limb, making an ass out of myself, and making really dumb decisions.

I almost always have a smile on my face, I have some strange tshirts, and occasionally my hair ends up being a strange colour! (To date it's been every colour of the rainbow, though I've been keeping to some pretty neutral reds and browns as of late.)

Books:
Night (Wiesel), Never Have Your Dog Stuffed (Alan Alda), Tuesdays With Morrie (Mitch Albom), 1984 (Orwell), The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), Siddhartha (Hesse), On Beyond Zebra (Seuss) The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Chabon), Life After God (Douglas Coupland) and The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)

Movies:
I'm pretty open to movies, though ones that I'll probably never watch again include: Good Luck Chuck, Signs, and Lawrence of Arabia.

TV:
How I Met Your Mother, The Office (So far I've only watched the US, but I want to watch the UK), Planet Earth, The Big Bang Theory, M*A*S*H, Buffy, Angel, and Bones.

Music:
Mostly smaller bands, like Hey Ocean!, Said the Whale, Hollerado, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Family Force Five and Library Voices, but I'm also keen on Ben Folds, Stephen Malkmus, Girl Talk, the Vengaboys, Kris Kross (basically any 90's pop sensation, really), Aesop Rock, Pigeon John, Bon Iver, Jack Johnson, and Flight of the Conchords.

Food:
The only foods that I'm not willing to try are peanuts, hazelnuts, and macadamia nuts. Long live allergies. (Also kumquats, because they're just not enjoyable.) I really enjoy italian and mexican foods, though.

1. My ability to hear. (One of my biggest fears is going deaf.)

2. Family.

3. Music. (Dear god, I don't know what I would do. Live music is my life.)

4. Books.

5. My Cell Phone. (There's something about knowing that I'm always able to be in touch with people that is oddly comforting.)

6. The Internet. (I don't know what I did before the days of IMDB, Wikipedia, and Email.)

The philosopher in me is going to come out here and say, right off the bat, that I think a lot about morality, absolutism, responsibility, and death. I don't dwell in these thoughts, but at any stray moment if you catch me glancing off into the distance or totally zoned out, that's probably what I'm thinking about.

I also think a lot about future projects (of the creative variety), music, and what the hell I might decide to do with the rest of my life once The Rest of My Life comes around.

Either at a show, checking out some small band, or hanging out at home, knitting, drawing, listening to music, or reading. I also enjoy going to movies (who doesn't, really?), going around taking photos, and just hanging out playing boardgames. (Scattergories, Quelph, or Life, anyone?)

My friends and I also tend to end up spending our Friday nights at our favourite pub downtown, which just means that the knitting/boardgames/music has been relocated to a booth where they serve me pints of my favourite local brews.

(And, during the school year, Friday afternoons are often spent enjoying free tunes at the University! Long live TES.)

Despite my seemingly cool and confident exterior, I'm fairly wrought with insecurities, and rather than talking about them, I tend to bury them deep within my cold, dead heart.

If you know of some awesome band that's coming to town that I should check out, or if you think we'd get along.