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sollite

26 / F / straight / Single

Seattle, Washington

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Leo and it’s fun to think about
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Working on Ph.D program
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I am loving, smart, and sort of ridiculous.

My Self-Summary

I am pretty damn smart with a whole lot of quirk. First and foremost though, I would say that kindness is the thing about me I value most. I am well aware of the hard edges, injustices, and generalized crappiness of the world we inhabit. I also think using those as an excuse to not even attempt to have a meaning-filled life characterized by enthusiasm, lovingness, humor, and beauty is the grand cop out of our time.

What I’m doing with my life

I am a graduate student in sociology with an undergraduate degree in physics. Somewhere in between those two, I joined Americorps, did community involvement for a government project, and worked as a state reporting analyst.

Currently, my aspirations are in social theory and bringing in complex systems and emergence into the study of society and culture. On some level, I still do believe that I will help change the world this way.

I really, really love what I do and continued to be amazed that I get paid to do it!

I’m really good at

Living.

Being funny, staying positive, and walking into emotionally scary situations with the clear understanding that there is daylight on the other side. Seeing the best in others without ever losing sight of how humans can get.

Abstract thinking and sarcastic wit. Philosophizing and laughing. Being still and seeing beauty. Psychedelics. Writing.

Dancing. Drawing. Dreaming.

The first things people usually notice about me

My hair and my smile probably. If they listen long enough, they might realize I'm intelligent, that I'm really nice, or that I am fairly funny in a weird, eccentric kind of way. I'm also enthusiastic, sometimes to a fault.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Books: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Dispossed by Ursala K. Le Guin, The Fourth Turning, works of Rumi and Kabir, anything by Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, or Tom Robbins, Culture of Make Believe, Language Older Than Words, and Walking on Water by Derrick Jensen, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Field Notes on the Compassionate Life, Illusions by Richard Bach, The Tao of Pooh, stuff from Robert Brezny, Anna Karenina

Movies: Contact, Amelie, Anna and the King, Across the Universe, Donnie Darko, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Cosmos, Waking Life, What Dreams May Come, Beetlejuice, Coraline, Big Fish, You Can't Take It With You, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Wristcutters

Music: Cloud Cult, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Gnarls Barkley, Jethro Tull, Firewater, The White Stripes, Thievery Corporation, Gotan Project, Lemon Jelly, K.T. Tunstall, Manu Chao

The six things I could never do without

1) Beauty
2) Laughter
3) Love
4) Nature
5) Truth
6) Goodness

I <3 Platonic Ideals.

I spend a lot of time thinking about

The big stuff and how it is all wrapped up in the small things.

On a typical Friday night I am

not behaving very typically.

The most private thing I’m willing to admit here

I'm presently fighting an epic battle on behalf of my innocence. I refuse to shut down, forget what I Know, or become hardened to life just because those around me are too scared to do otherwise. Some openess is based in ignorance. Some, though, is based in wisdom. There is a difference.

Maybe I don't fit, but that won't stop me from being what I am fully and enjoying the hell out of it.

You should message me if

you get that on some level I'm being very open and forcefully "me" in this profile because I don't feel like pretending to be otherwise anymore (even though this way scares the bejeezus out of me). Maybe you're in the same boat.

Mostly though you should message me if you love being in this hard but beautiful adventure called life and tend to see it as a co-creative venture between you and a something bigger out there.