Just recently moved back to Austin and glad to be back. I'm a Texas girl, born and raised, but was smart enough to get out and also come back. Left after high school and attended College of Santa Fe - a little art school nestled in the high desert mountains of New Mexico. I love the smell of that land just after it rains in the summer.

Since then, I've lived in Maine, San Diego and Indonesia.

That is just the scaffolding.

I started a master's program at St.Edwards in Counseling/Clinical Psych this last year and am just starting my third semester.

I work at a mental health treatment facility a few days a week to pay ye old bills.

Moving to new cities
Listening
Indulgence and self-control
Getting passionate about something, becoming only moderately informed, and dropping it for the next thing (e.g. pottery, tennis, running, the harmonica, the musical saw, interpersonal neurobiology, the cello, Spanish).

that i look like mary stuart masterson in fried green tomatoes

Reading: Satire, dead Russians, biographies, the week, Dan Siegel, books about the brain, philosophy, Bonnie Badenoch, poetry by Mary Oliver, reading for school which I actually enjoy
Movies: woody allen, domestic dramas, dark comedy, series - mad men, curb your enthusiasm in particular
Music: newest love: father john misty, pillar: neil young, classic: junior kimbrough
Food: Some weeks I eat vegan, sometimes paleo, other weeks I gorge myself on french cheese and escargot at Justine's and sometimes I eat a handful of vitamins for breakfast

My labradoodle, Rooster
My cowboy boots
good friends
my family
A trail on which to run
violent thunderstorms

mostly trivial things such as why doesn't the word efficient only have one "F"

Usually working unless I plan otherwise or have engagements that are especially scintillating.

with time and the right person comes self-disclosure

If you and your friends prefer dinner parties and interesting conversation over getting drunk every night at the same bar.