I look like a hipster, sound like a thesaurus and like making friends with anyone who will put up with my antics. I chain smoke cigarettes, take my coffee black, and am currently engaged in a violent love affair with anything by Chaucer or his contemporaries (and have been for the past 3 years - this is likely to continue). I like house parties; I love dance parties. I work at a thrift store and feel any hope for the future lies in sustainability.

I appreciate people who don't mind that I tend to ramble (read: people brave and forward enough to tell me to shut up when necessary. Or one of the few souls who find it endearing/entertaining). If you're drawn to shy, retiring girls of the classy sort, you're looking at the wrong lady. If you're into adventures, healthy debates, receiving/lending good books, and women who can hold their whiskey, you might be in the right place.

I'm into banter, friendly shit-talking and roughhousing (and lists, I guess). If you're a girl who'll punch me and take a hit back in good fun, marry me yesterday.

Currently, I'm using the extra time summer provides to tackle the shelves of books I keep meaning to read. For the long-term, like any young twenty-something, I have no idea what I'm doing with my life after I get my (real world inapplicable) B.A. This has yet to concern me.

dancing
not cooking
school skills (analyzing lit, writing papers, bullshitting)
talking to strangers
staying up late

Evidently I look really gay. This usually works in my favor.

People like to tell me I come across as "brave" or "intimidating". This is absurd - I am little and very friendly, and my bangs are constantly in my face.

Books: Set This House in Order, The Elephant Vanishes, Plato's Republic and Symposium, Crime and Punishment, and loads of others.

Movies: I could watch The American Astronaut and Some Like It Hot over and over again.

Music: This goes everywhere: Sam Cooke, The Kills, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT, Suicide Commando, TI, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dead Prez, and more.

Food: Like a true native Californian, I love avocados and guacamole. I like Mexican food a whole freaking lot, and I miss how good it was now that I live in the Pacific Northwest.

my best friend, general mayhem, good black coffee, a book to read, inappropriate ill-timed humor, new things to learn

My own hedonistic tendencies and whether I should curtail them or let them run rampant because fuck it, it's summer. I like to make semi-serious plans with my friends for the inevitable apocalypse, zombie-induced and otherwise.

I am out of the house more often than not. The activities differ, but they usually include drinking and being generally rambunctious.

You think we'd get along, as friends or otherwise. I like confidence, ambition, a well-stocked library and good hair. If you have a bad handshake, it'll be hard to win me over.