I'd prefer to be sitting in the sun near a stream in the mountains writing or reading a book somewhere with hemlock trees and maybe a dog. using punctuation and capitalization in a somewhat erratic manner and perhaps even making up words. If not, then looking forward to using my passport or dancing to bluegrass or salsa. with friends. or maybe on my bike. or cooking something vegetarian. or maybe all of these things at once, except that maybe that's a bad idea.. Optimistic, but sarcastic.

Teaching art to teenagers and being pretty happy about it.

Teaching, cracking jokes that make people groan and planning stuff like cabin trips, group hikes, trips to Mexico... Ideas- thinking in 7 directions at once and circumlocutious storytelling. I'm really bad at texting, though.

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My hair- it's big.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Coming through Slaughter, The Botany of Desire, Choke - anything by Barbra Kingsolver, John Krakaur or Toni Morrison. I just finished Three Cups of Tea and Eat,Pray, Love.

At the moment I'm cooking with whatever secret ingredients the CSA (community supported agriculture) supplies for the week- it's kind of like being on Top Chef without any prestiege and more organic and local- but my favorite foods to go out for are Afghani (I missed Baltimore's Helmand when I lived in Portland and Seattle), Thai and Indian.

Music- John Prine, Michael Franti, Be Good Tanyas, Mike Doughty, Django Reinhardt, Vampire Weekend, Greg Brown.. and listening to NPR.

All time favorite movies are Better off Dead and High Fidelity. Anything with John Cusack, apparently. Or Nicholas Cage when he was still funny and not trying to be some kind of action hero. And all that Judd Apato stuff. I still want to see Food Inc- but the last thing I saw was Harry Potter. Time Traveller's Wife was one of my favorite books, so I'm a little afraid of the movie. I only watch t.v. if it's on dvd - Stephen Colbert, The Wire, Buffy..

coffee, color, a garden, novels, a pencil and good friends.

this week? pedagogy and curriculum planning.

generally- where to go on the next adventure, what the people i love need and how to me a more centered human. how thrilled i am to have a president i'm not embarrassed by. whatever i'm reading and where i'd like to go next. What it will take to make people a little more environmentally conscious in everyday life.

wondering if anyone wants to go dancing or if i should just read a book.

If i don't laugh so loud the whole room can hear, it wasn't that funny. And that I have a guitar I can play about 4 chords on.

You like some to much of the above stuff, but don't chain smoke, wear skinny black jeans, need to borrow money, vote republican or live with your mom.

Or, more truthfully, if I seem like someone you'd already know.