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I've had what I like to believe are an interesting and full 22 years on this earth, but I'm certain that I need to improve on them, and experience even more in the years to come.

I have a love-hate relationship with the written word. I wrote short stories with my dad as soon as I could hold a pen; I had a perfect verbal score on the SAT; and I've failed and dropped an inordinate amount of English classes. You do the math. That said, I'm still hopeful that I can summon the self-discipline to write and publish a story or two.

In what feels like an age ago, I was in a percussion ensemble, played clarinet, and took voice lessons. I'd like these things to hold my attention again, and perhaps even pick up something new, too.

I'm a visual creature, and my eye is most drawn to contrast. Softness has its place, but I have to work to appreciate it.

Recently, I've learned that I like to cook and dance (swing and blues). I'm a little bit surprised that I can even do these things, much less enjoy and improve enough at them to feel like I could be good at them. I'm still a little too squicked out by most meat to touch it with my bare hands, but I can cook damn good fish, veggies, meat substitutes, and baked goods.

Learning fascinates me, both the process and the fruits thereof, but I sometimes put a little bit too much pressure on myself about the whole thing.

I'm polyamorous, and it's probably a word you'll need to know, or have a conversation with me about to not be absolutely confused/concerned about how I interact with others, especially romantically. But it's nothing to be scared of, I promise!

Learning, growing, loving, writing.

Photoshop, getting to the heart of what people are trying to say, making a mix CD.

My height, my hair (there's kinda a lot of it, and it's been some interesting colors), how I use body language.

Books: Favorites: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov; Orlando by Virginia Woolf; Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence; Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto (I also like his Underground History of American Education, a lot, but I haven't made it all the way through yet.)

Books: Authors who've influenced how I look at things: Ayn Rand; Heinlein; John Taylor Gatto; John Holt; Camille Paglia; Aristotle.

Books: Authors whose books I've read and had fun reading: David Foster Wallace; Isaac Asimov; Neal Gaiman; Douglass Coupland; Jeanette Winterson; Tom Robbins; Milan Kundera; Flannery O'Connor; Leo Tolstoy; Vladimir Nabokov; Nikolai Gogol (I've had an odd fascination with Russian history and literature since high school) -- and from childhood, the ones I remember most vividly are Roald Dahl, James Howe, and Beverly Cleary.

Movies: I need to see more to choose from.

Music: I have too much to choose from. Way, way, too much. I have a nearly full 40 gig iPod from the era when such things were actually a reasonable size (as opposed to something so tiny that it's certain to get lost in my war zone of a purse), but in going through my music collection, I've decided that far too much of it is indie and alternative music from the past twenty years or so. I'd like to expand my horizons, and acquire more of the classics, especially some good blues.

Food: Seared tuna, sushi, well-prepared fish, all kinds of breakfast foods, dark chocolate, desserts that are typically described as "decadent" and "rich."

Since things like food, air, and water are obvious (though I really couldn't live without water -- I'm much more conscientious about staying hydrated than I am about remembering to eat), I'm going to interpret this question less than literally.

Liberty. Love. Physical touch. Music in which I can get lost and found. My vision. Dashes -- admittedly, there are stylistically better things to like about the English language, but I couldn't voice things the way that I do without being able to interject from time to time.