I like to think of myself as a multifaceted person. I love to have fun just as much as I love to study and learn new things. Getting dressed up and hanging out with my girls is just as fun as drinking (good) beer and watching baseball. I enjoy going out to hang out with friends as much as I like staying in and watching a movie. I like to run, read, dance, cook, travel, talk, and laugh. I enjoy feeling like I participate in life in many kinds of ways.

I moved back to the Twin Cities this past summer after being gone for five years. After finishing a master's program in Nashville, I moved back to St. Paul to start a job in higher education development.

making people laugh.

Espresso brown eyes that match my dark brown hair. Also, I'm short, which I think is a good thing.

books: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pillars of the Earth, Love in the Time of Cholera, the Harry Potter series, A Light in August, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Middlesex...too many

movies: Forrest Gump, The Sound of Music, The Departed, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Something's Gotta Give, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Singin' in the Rain, Braveheart, Slumdog Millionaire, Rushmore

music: Andrew Bird, Band of Horses, Gustav Holst, Bela Fleck, Billy Joel, Vampire Weekend, Freelance Whales, Girl Talk, Sara Bareilles, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Sufjan Stevens, U2, Wilco, William Fitzsimmons, Kathleen Edwards, Brandi Carlile, Snow Patrol, Incubus, Jason Mraz

food: so many things. I love to cook and stay in as much as I love to eat out somewhere new or somewhere tried and true.

family and friends (especially my little brother)
cheese
warm, cozy bed to read in
phone
humor/laughing
gin and tonic with extra lime

religion and philosophy (academically...and personally, I suppose)
my friends and family
cooking/eating
traveling
reading

I'm up for lots of things on a Friday: staying in and watching a movie or reading, checking out a couple of bars with friends, falling asleep early, staying up late....