and now its time for some non-sequitors!
I like lots of things: drinking champagne, eating sushi, eating Lao food with my Lao roommate and her family, going on adventures, being close to the people I love, napping in the sun, playing board games, visual representations of data, and good public transportation.
I like to wander in new cities with only vague directions and a slightly uncomfortable lack of knowledge about the place that I am in.

I just finished (not really) tending my first ever garden. When I go to the garden at night (its a community garden) I feel like I'm on an adventure. And then I go get free bread from the bakery that is already closed.

I like the smell of the dark room. I'm very practical, but sometimes I'm too practical for my own good.

I work for a small nonprofit that is the best little nonprofit in the world.
no, but really, it is great. The downside is that I put in waay too many hours.
I'm a little antsy in Milwaukee these days and I'm trying to figure out what comes next. Do I want to go to grad school, and deciding for what (options I think about include: public health, library science, or maybe urban planning.
in my free time, I like walking by the lake, I'm trying to cook more, be more active, and not get sucked into the winter doldrums.

Sometimes I teach people how to breathe fire, but not in a while.

zoning out while I'm driving
telling jokes
laughing at my own jokes
loving the people I'm close with
cooking tasty food
being practical

my laugh and my really big boobs--no seriously

I like good books, and I am always looking for new things to read. I have a great love for libraries. I really liked Freakonomics, The Women of Brewster Place, Annie John, Sister Outsider, Krik? Krak!, Indian Killer, Griffen and Sabine, The Giver, Caucasia, Written on the Body, The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, The Painted Drum, lots more.
For a while I was reading a lot of novels written by women of color. Right now I've been reading a lot of thriller/mystery novels that are more like brain candy.

my favorite movies are Harold and Maude and the Thomas Crowne Affair. I like heist movies, some Spike Lee movies, thoughtful movies. I thought Grizzly Man was awful.

I love music. My newest favorite is Miike Snow. I also like M.I.A., Kimya Dawson, Marcella, Andrew Bird, Regina Spektor, Daft Punk, FischerSpooner, Eisley, Tegan and Sara, Lady GaGa, The Strokes, acoustic Nirvana, Jose Gonzalez, Feist, Peaches, and Sia . I love trashy pop music to dance to. I also am particularly in love with Bach's Cello Sonatas.

I prefer ethnic foods. Indian, Thai, Lao, Japanese, Ethiopian, Jewish, Mexican, Middle Eastern. and I like the food I've been getting from my garden--esp the beets.

my friends, my relationships with people, something to stimulate my mind, laughter, fun adventures

whats important to me

racism (and how to work against it)

my life and what I'm doing with it

what comes next (more school? public health or something else?)

where I'm going next and who I'm going to go visit

where to meet cute girls

why I'm so bad at striking up conversation with people that I don't know--and how to get over that

sometimes by Friday night I am very very tired.
Other times I like to go on big adventures.
sometimes its a little of both.

often it involves friends.

I love jokes

you want to.

you know good jokes (or bad ones) but no racist ones.

you have interesting stories

you are a (or know a) nice girl in Milwaukee (or somewhere not too terribly far away from Milwaukee)

you want to tell me about good music

bonus points for finishing my three "descriptors"