Do you sing or play an instrument? Do you appreciate aesthetics? Can you shoot class IV rapids in a kayak? Have you skied places like Blackcomb or Banff? Have you explored the ocean with a sea turtle? Do you enjoy the textures and tastes of food or are you a "food is fuel" person? Do you find yourself noticing lighting and thinking about camera angles? Do you have a quirky sense of humor or a rapier wit? Are your friends very dear and close to you? Are you a book lover? Would you describe yourself as a mountain man? Are you a world traveler? A science geek? Can you sew? Are you a good cook? Enjoy Yoga? Are you emotionally and spiritually healthy or does your idea of healthy only include hours logged at a gym? If you have some of these abilities/interests we may get along....

Maintaining my cat in the manner to which he has become accustomed, enjoying my job most days, constantly learning, skiing, traveling, and whitewater kayaking

Check out Team SP.ED's blog these are my kayak peeps Blog

For a rocking first decent check out this video Superfreak falls baby!

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Getting outside of the box & (evil grin)

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My laughter and eyes.... My openess.

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My favorites? Too many books to list(may bore you anyway)I always have about 3 going;

Movies...Slumdog millionaire, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,Pan's Labyrinth,Iron Man,August Rush,The World's Fastest Indian,The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,Crumb,Blades of Glory, Kung Fu Panda, Triplets of Bellville, High Fidelity, The Elvis tapes (we all have a little Elvis in us), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spirited away, Earth girls are easy, Nightmare Before Christmas (Burton does some great stuff!), Toy Story, The Long Kiss Goodnight, LoTR Trilogy, Napoleon Dynamite, Chronicles of Narnia (the queen was cast PERFECTLY), Howl's Moving Castle, O Brother Where Art Thou, Just about everything that has Dep in it, and I have an additional soft spot for Cage....I loved Raising Arizona, Monty Python....(Spamalot was way cool (even though it isn't a movie it should be listed here);

Music...October Project and Little Georgie and the Shuffling Hungarians Peter Gabriel, Evanescence, Steve Gadd, Elvis Costello, Robert Mirabel,Muddy Waters,Matt Cusson, Marina Belica, Annie Lennox, Renaissance,Toots Thieleman, Mose Allison,Ella Fitzgerald, Moxy Fruvous,Rusted Root, They Might be Giants, Mary Fahl, Jennifer Heieck, JEM, Pink Martini, Raul Midon,Yo-Yo Ma, Wolfstone,Lou Reed, Vaya Con Dios,The Police, The Tragically Hip, Tom Waits, Joe Jackson, Thanks to Gravity, Spoon, Sonya Kitchell, Slickee Boys, Jethro Tull, The Jazzabels,Donna the Buffalo, James Galway, Herbie Hancock, Happy the Man, Gib Droll.... the list goes on you should see my ipod... I love exploring music on myspace.

Food...I have found that many people don't like a type of food because they had a poor version of it. I am a bit of a foodie. Thai and Japanese are typical favorites but REAL Mexican, and good pizza...Eggs over easy with Hollandaise.... yum.

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The Southampton contingency, & My mentors are givens. Hmm this is a hard one... off the top of my head, in no apparent order: my iPod/Bose speakers;DARK chocolate(come on now I am a girl so perhaps that is given too)!, affection/love, adventure, Honesty & the Wilderness.

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Missing my friends on Team SP.ED and their class V abilities (I am SP.ED but not class V)

Children...

Have you ever heard the saying... "If you aren't outraged at what's been going on you haven't been paying attention?" ;

How to convey the feeling that I get when I see so much beauty in the world go ignored. ; How scary "average intelligence" can be(moooooo); Would it be better to get an electric car or hydrogen; Yahweh.

driving to a river to kayak the next day (summer)/packing to go skiing (winter) hanging with friends, or cuddling cats

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I am musical.

You whitewater kayak, ski, dance, like the Diner in Adams Morgan, have a great smile...or "crinkle smile eyes"(you know who you are). You like to laugh, and think and explore. If you don't smoke, prefer adventure to being a couch potato, if you enjoy a little zany and a little magic, and if you excel in the spheres of honesty and kindness. If you are a bit crunchy and appreciate the environment.